Re: photo permissions and payment questions

**N* S* <N*@PlantSoup.Com>**

This would be a good question for the GWA attorney

On Mar 16, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Amy Ziffer <amyziffer@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi All:
> 
> I'm soliciting input on two photo matters here.  First, a payment  
> question.  I haven't worked as an editor (i.e., paying out for photos)  
> for over 15 years, so I'm quite out of the loop and unaware of current  
> rates.
> 
> I have a publisher for a gardening book, and I would like to use pix  
> in it for which one property owner would like compensation.  That's  
> fine, but I don't know how much to offer her.  I've asked her to tell  
> me how much she wants, but she declined and wants me to make an  
> offer.   The publisher is a university press.  Initial print run will  
> be 2500 copies.  Book dimensions will probably be on the order of  
> 7x10, and most photos will probably be run at 1/4 page or so.  What's  
> standard compensation for something like that these days?  I will  
> probably use only 4-5 shots from this property in the book, but  
> there's an outside chance the publisher could want a dozen, so perhaps  
> offering her one figure for the use of any number of shots would be  
> better than offering a per photo rate.  I'm interested in all opinions  
> here.
> 
> The other question has to do with photos taken on a property that has  
> changed hands at least once since the photos were taken.  No property  
> release was signed by the person who owned the property when the  
> photos were taken.  In fact, he's passed away.  Someone else owns the  
> property now, and I could find out who, but it seems to me they don't  
> have any right to object to photos of the property taken before they  
> owned it.  There are heirs to the person who owned the property when  
> the shots were taken, but they no longer own it, either.  Does anyone  
> know what one is supposed to do in a situation like this?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Amy Ziffer
> dba A Shady Lady Garden Design
> 128 Green Pond Rd.
> Sherman, CT  06784
> Home office: (860) 350-3565
> Cell: (860) 248-0559
> amyziffer@earthlink.net
> www.amyziffer.com
> 
> 
> 
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