Are any of you giving it away?

[bsimison]

Today I received an email from a blogger at BusinessWeek.com requesting use of one of my images found on my website. I replied with a fair market usage fee. He replied, "Nah, we have to go with free stuff given the current environment."

I told him, "I understand. Given the current environment, I can't afford to let it go for free."

How often do y'all receive these requests for free images? Are any of you giving the milk away?

-Brett

[Richard M. Coda]

BusinessWeek.com! Cheap SOBs.

In answer to your question... I guess my work's not good enough... No one ever calls me

[Henry Ambrose]

I suppose he writes for free for Business Week?
What kind of business publication has an completely unbusinesslike method of acquiring its content?

What gall.

[Walter Calahan]

Yeah, it's all crap the way everyone wants photography for free.

I wonder if McGraw-Hill gets free rent in Rockefeller Plaza? Perhaps they don't have to pay for internet service 'cause they are Business Week?

[BradS]

The problem is that there are hundreds of thousands of folks running around with the latest, greates DSLR snapping fourty frames a minute who would be thrilled to have their stuff published - for free.

[jnantz]

a lot of big-wig commercial clients want free images ( royalty free stock ) as well
not just the websites ...

on the up side, at least the guy wrote you and didn't harvest your work, thinking it was orphaned (on your website ...) ...

[bsimison]

on the up side, at least the guy wrote you and didn't harvest your work, thinking it was orphaned (on your website ...) ...

You're absolutely right, and I thanked him in my first email for taking the time to ask before posting.

[BarryS]

Irony: 1
Photographers: 0

I'm usually happy to give away limited usage rights for personal pages and some other no-profit ventures I support, but for businesses--especially ones with recognizable names? No way.

[Brian_A]

I've only given away a couple of images but they were to a college paper (A random phone call asking to use my images.) and the other person was a friend of a friend who needed a quick favor. Both images were digital.

One could say I give away the digital work I do for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series teams I work for because I don't get any cash, but they do hook me up with a LOT of perks. Free? No. Actual cash money? No. A lot of cool things like all access passes, team clothing, all the food I can eat, etc? Yes.

-Brian

[PViapiano]

I was asked for images by Variety, the entertainment daily...they wanted them for free. I refused...

Also, by an Italian architecture magazine...again, I refused.

I was asking $350...