Originally posted by RollsUp I've got a request on flickr to use some of my photos of seals and walrus for a book revision. In the message it states "Although a commercial venture, we are only funded to provide complimentary electronic and hard copies of the book to photographers who provide images, and as such are mostly relying on colleagues and researchers who support the project."
Is it worth it giving permission to use photos for free to a commercial venture?
They are willing to give me a copy of their book so it isn't actually giving away my photos for free.
i'm a working photographer. giving free access to a commercial venture is completely wrong and undermine thousand of photographer out there. they are trying not to buy
commercially licensed images, that's why they go in flickr and try to obtain free photo, and they will make money with the book , be sure of this. or they try to make money.
once a photo for book was worth thousand of dollar, now this is the trend. photography is cheap to obtain out there, steal buy from amateur, buy in instagram or flickr, that's why serious photography will die on day. cause in flickr you won't find war photos, great reportage photos, that photo are provided by professional who spend money to obtain those images, amateur don't do this. if professional cannot live with photography, because everybody try to obtain free photo, that will be a problem for all photography world.
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people in flickr should understand that their work most of the time is chosen cause is free. not cause is the best for the task. that's shameful in my opinion.