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Randomly got notified a couple of days ago that Toyota had used one of my photos on a website without asking permission - [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/toretz/52390823/ ]This photo[/url]
In fact they'd used and linked to about 30 different photographer's work on Flickr, without asking anyone! Tut tut 😕
Anyway just had an email from Toyota offering an apology and $500 8) Sweet!
I'm decided I'm going to give $100 of it to charity, so what shall I buy with the rest?
What cool piece of bicycling ephemera shall I purchase with my free money?
is that all they are due you?
you want to be investigating how much benefit they have had from using your work...
failing that a nice new set of wheels.
I dunno, if they had used a stock image they would only have paid a smaller flat rate for it (I don't know what that is but probably $100-200?)
Anyway, no-ones been hurt (well a couple of the pro-photographers whose work was used are being a bit hissy over it!) and $500 for a holiday snap I took in 2002 on a 2.1mp camera seems fine to me!
Hmmm, wheels you say? Might be nice 8)
I'm decided I'm going to give $100 of it to charity,
Good on you.
aye forgot to mention that bit. good work sir!
my GF pays for a wee lad in Uganda to go to school. we get letters and school reports of him. he has poor timekeeping but excellent cleanliness and he is improving his english a lot. it is a lovely thing.
Things that cost the most, yet save the least weight
Titanium bolts, nuts and washers?
a bike holiday - memories are so much more valuable than bits.
trawl fleabay for something frivolous that you can work on over time, eg an old zaskar or some such classic.