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 p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · when "friends" steal your photography. ... | |
I'm flattered, and leave it at that. I understand that once I put my images on the internet, anyone can (and some will) take screenshots and use it on their social media or even make small shitty prints for keepsakes. I can get pissed off all I want, but that's not going to change anything. I can spout off copyright law, and ethics and morals, but it really comes down to someone liking an image and just wanting a small print on their mantle, or sharing it on Pinterest or whatever.
Many of us encourage the sharing of our Facebook posts, or Pinterest images, or whatever. So what's really the difference with them printing a shitty 5x7 screenshot image and putting it on their mantle? To me, there's no difference.
However, if they want wall art, then they need the real deal, and that means they need to go through me. And that's what I want. I don't really make money selling 5x7 prints, except those clients that order a ton of them from a single portrait session.
But that shitty 5x7 print, just like the sharing of my Facebook post, could be a conversation starter when their friends see it, and one of them might hire me. That's really what I want. They can have the shitty 5x7 print on their mantle.
So I'm not trying to convince you this is the right way of doing things, nor am I inviting ppl to try to convince me otherwise. It's my way. It's my right way.
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