Brian, True enough.
But part of our job can be educating potential clients why they should choose "us" and pay $500 or $5000 instead of "them" and pay $5. These links could be useful tools to send to folks asking questions like that. If a big company uses a $5 RF image and spends many thousands on advertising, it certainly could lead to similar embarrassment. If nothing other than giggles, I've forwarded these links to at least one potential client.
No doubt similar things happened in the "golden days" but the extremely low cost of microstock may make these things more common, or...?
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Michael Halberstadt
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--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Yarvin" <brian@...> wrote:
>
> > Hope this hasn't already been covered, but these are both worth reading:
>
> Micheal:
>
> These mistakes and conflicts were common long before RF and microstock. I remember
> several such incidents back in the eighties. Come to think of it, photos had been used
> mistakenly (and even dishonestly) before stock photography became popular.
>
>
> Brian Yarvin
> Author, Educator, Photographer
> http://www.brianyarvin.com
>
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