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No not at all. These are links in my portfolio of my work. Some of the news organizations ran AP photos with my stories. Hell, I actually worked for AP as a senior writer for a couple of years. It's not exactly a scam but it's darn a money grab that won't work on me. I know better.How does one "happen to capture" photos by linking stories? Are you using some template blog that is pulling them in? Is there no way to disable that?
No not at all. These are links in my portfolio of my work. Some of the news organizations ran AP photos with my stories. Hell, I actually worked for AP as a senior writer for a couple of years. It's not exactly a scam but it's darn a money grab that won't work on me. I know better.
My company holds annual training sessions with one of our corporate lawyers about this exact topic. Wrong usage of a single photo has cost companies thousands of dollars. A cottage industry has basically built up.
We no longer even embed tweets from accounts unless we have explicit permission to do so. Some of these policies are about getting out ahead of the next "violation" someone thinks of making a money grab over.
Worked at a weekly in Iowa back in the early- to mid-'90s. Another weekly from the next county over would often copy our pics from our county fair and run them in their paper using the "Photo courtesy of" routine. Our editor got Pished (some of the pics were hers) and got the publisher involved to put a stop to it.Many a moon ago, a weekly put some of our photos of a football game one of its schools played against one of ours, using "Photos courtesy Podunk Shipping News" on their captions. The shooters threw a fit, and when the editor found out I had not given permission to the Weekly Fishwrap to use our photos we threw a fit too. The Fishwrap got a delicately worded nastygram from our publisher.