2006aug12. Mail.
I am writing to ask for information about the card’s collection. I work in an argentine magazine, called Tigris and I am writing an article of different collections. I would like to mention what you do and ask you if you could send me pictures in high resolution (300 dpi) of your collection to illustrate part of the article.
Best
regards,
Pilar
Sure! How much does it pay?
Sorry, I don’t understand. Do you want me to pay for the information? I just want to know who are the people who collect cards from streets and if I can have some pictures. Thanks!
No, I don’t want you to pay for the information. I want you to pay for the images. You are running a nice, glossy, “high living” magazine that features people playing polo on the cover of a recent issue. I used to run a small, shoestring-budget, non-glossy “music and humor” magazine that had a fraction of your readers. I paid nearly everyone who contributed images; it may have been small potatoes, but it was something. Presently, someone wants to use a photo I posted awhile ago of a yacht – if it runs on their television show, they’re going to pay me. Someone wants to use photos I took of Japanese arcades – if it runs in their magazine, they’re going to pay me. I did not suggest this – it’s just the way things are. If you use someone else’s work in a wholesale fashion, and you’re running a profit-based business based on these sort of exchanges, you should probably pay the person.
So yes, you can have some pictures. If you pay me. Thank you for asking.
Jeff.
(Strange, he never wrote back. Maybe it was the polo thing.)
