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RE: [GWL]: Digest for Gardenwriters@topica.com, issue 311


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> Hello everyone: 
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> I get Ron Engh's (free) PhotoLightNews. This is what he suggests you 
> write into a contract when selling the use of photos: 
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> "The publisher agrees that the above fee purchases one-time North 
> American hard-copy print publication rights only. All other rights, 
> including web use and the electronic reproduction, transmission, 
> display, performance, endorsement or advertising use, or distribution of 
> the photo, are fully reserved by the photographer." - Ron Engh 
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> Marilynn McAra (Edmonton) 
> Ph/fax: (780) 423-0238 

Lucky you to get Ron Engh's Newsletter (or should that be newsletter? :~})

His book 'Sell & Re-Sell Your Photos' and 'The Freelance Photographer's
Handbook' by Frederick Bodin have been my freelancing bibles. They apply just
as well here in the UK as they do in the US. I've had only one bad debt in
twenty-five years because I followed the latter's advice on financial
management, invoicing and trading methods. I have found that most of what they
say about photography applies equally well to writing. Anyone who is a writer
(on any subject) and able to supply their own pictures can more than double
their earnings, by the way they can expand their commissions and markets.

As far as Rights and model releases are concerned Bodin's four pages on those
topics are worth the price of the book alone. They make multiple sales of the
same photograph simple and litigation free. In the quote from the Ron Engh
newsletter you could substitute European, English-language,  One-time use &
Non-exclusive use, among many other variations of regions, type of
reproduction, time limits of use as well as the medium. Just don't get too
complicated or clever or you will frighten potential paying customers away.

The management of filing systems and records or photographs out on approval is
another of the worthwhile topics covered.

Probably the most important aspect of both books is that they teach you how to
be professional about all aspects of working as a freelance and that impresses
potential clients, not just editors, and gives them confidence in your ability
to deliver.

Sorry I've gone on about them but I keep feeling that I owe them a debt for
starting me off in the right way. :~}

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> In passing may I add that I am pleased that most of you are not just writers
> but interested, practising gardeners as well as is demonstrated by the
> enquiries and advice which flow so freely.  I'm doing my best with the
> grammar. 8-]
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Regards

Barry Webb

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