Re: MCM - Digest V1 #403

["Karen Randall" <krandall@world.std.com>]

Erik wrote:

> I'm trying to come up with something cooperative here, not hindering.  If
> we want someone to publish a photo, then we should give them the best
> possible quality, but only the material we'd like to see, right?  It's not
> that we want to keep Dave away from the images, I'd just rather coordinate
> which ones he PUBLISHES so that it fits with our own plans. The easiest
> way to insure this happens is to only give him the full-quality images we
> select.  If we sent him a whole CD but with a post-it note on it saying
> "please only publish #203, #407 and #108", what do you suppose the odds
> are that he'll forget the post-it note?

I can speak to that issue as well.  I have sent Dave several CD's FULL of
publication quality images.  I every case he has carefully called me to
discuss what issues he'd like to use and how.  There are no burned-in
copyrights on these images.  They are just tiff files of good quality photos
on a disk that has, written in "sharpie" pen, "copyright Karen A. Randall".
BTW, I sned photos both to MAry and AFM in exactly the same format, and
expect that they will obey the law.  So far I have not been disappointed.

If I felt that I couldn't trust a publisher to handle my material correctly,
I wouldn't send it to them at all.  If I worry about images, it's when I
send them to AFM, not when I send them to either Dave or Mary.  OTOH,
though, it makes no sense to send Dave images that we have no intention of
letting him use.  So I agree that it's best to have Erik sort through them
first.

Karen