Bob Thayer

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January 2, 1997, on List of Weasels:
It's a shame that people cannot appreciate your art or at least show their appreciation through payment for use of your photographs. I am a wedding photographer in the Northern Virginia area and have fought agaist copyright violators. In one case, a videographer that was at a wedding which I photographed, "borrowed" my photographs to fade in and out of because he lacked the skills or creativity to capture it on video. In this case, he ignored the copyright on the back of the photographs and ended up with a "fee" (threat of lawsuit) of $ 200.00 per photograph the he stole. He also was forbidden to distribute, sell or give away any additional copies other than the one the Bride and Groom had previously received(which by the way was a rough cut without proper sound or editing). Do I feel sorry for the Bride and Groom? No, because they could have prevented the theft of my photos by not giving the prints the the videographer. It probably does not matter to the Bride and Groom anyhow, b...