Selfish self promotion

July 16, 2009 by pmelcher.

Supreme court justice nominee  Sonia Sotomayor,  it  was just revealed yesterday, was  one of three judges who handled the Chris Usher/ Corbis case we had mentioned here extensively . It should be noted that if she is appointed, which she probably will, photographers and photography will undoubtedly be mistreated if any case bubble up to the Supreme Court.

The New York Times broke the story with an extensive article which happens to quote one of my entries :

read all about here.

The best part is when the Corbis lawyer compares photography with nails:

“Why would photographers be immune from the laws of economics?” he said. “If I had a 20-year-old business selling nails, and you were interested in buying my nail business, would you not look at how it performed? Would you not look at the gross revenue over 20 years and at the net and what the competition is, in order to fix a price? Why would photographers think they’re immune from these things? It’s a commodity.”

Indeed, Corbis, photography is a commodity. You must be proud of that statement.  If so, why don’t you license all your images at $7 ?

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