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Originally Posted by Momziller  Did anyone else read the story about Walmart and the funeral pics that was on the Dreamie page?
Sheesh. |
I worked in a WalMart photo lab to put myself through college and it was WalMart's policy that even if a picture appeared to be professional we were not to copy it. There are copyright laws and the worker was just doing her job. I got screamed at, spit at, and things thrown at me because I wouldn't let someone make copies of their child's school photo. The parent had paid $15 for a couple of pictures and figured they would just make more copes at WalMart for 20 cents a piece. Suck it up and buy the pictures from the photographer, that is how they make a living and there are laws to protect the photographer. People got ticked at me, but I wasn't willing to risk my job by breaking the law because they were cheap.
We did have some of those funeral situations, and I did feel bad for the person, but at the same time, I was not going to risk my job. There was another place in town that did copy them, so I would help the customer with the pictures I could copy and they would usually thank me and go to the other place to get their professional pictures copied. The only people that were really nasty about it were people that were being cheap.
Fast forward ten years and now I am the professional photographer. I do not make prints (don't want to deal with the printing companies) so I am able to charge a bit more than other photographers charge for a photoshoot but unlike the other places, which only include proofs of the shoot in the price and not the copyright, my clients get a burned CD of all of their images and a copyright release, which I give them in paper and put a file on the CD. This way the client can print however many pictures they want, whenever they want, and they don't have to deal with the whole copyright issue and I'd like to think that I save some poor WalMart employee the hassle of dealing with yet ANOTHER copyright issue.
On the original topic, I would love a Snuggie, but a Dreamie doesn't really look like something I am interested.