05-09-2007, 11:14 AM
Domaineer Wrote:I've never been taught in my business classes anything about how to write a letter to demand permission of use. This has always been posted as somewhat of a threat to those who would plagiurize and yet you seldom if ever see a news story or magazine article about Joe Blow from Anywhere USA being sued because he used images on a website or a quote in a book or bought a copy of a sculpture at a garage sale. Truth be told, there are just too many instances of possible plagiarism and too many places to search for breaches of copyright. Unless they are pretty blatant and don't put some sort of acknowledgment or release, I don't think photographers, artists, and writers go around looking to find copyright violators.
N o, most of the time the artist don't look for it, but it happened to me! I wrote articles for a magazine, and the contract said that they had the rights of that material they published, not me anymore. Well, one day my editor calls me asking me if I know certain woman in Spain that I gave her my articles, and I told her the truth, I didn't know her. Turns out that the woman wrote a book and used a couple of my articles and quoted me, but didn't give any credit to the magazine! Well, my editor was pretty mad! I didn't really care, but asked a friend in Spain to find the book, and she later told me what was written. I didn't have a problem, but my editor and the people at the magazine were very mad. I don't know what they did after that.