Additional Photographic Glory

Posted on: 16 March 2009 /
Categories: Self Promotion

Another email from freshgoat:

———- Forwarded message ———-
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:50:01 -0600 (MDT)
From: Freshgoat
To: xxx@maruzen.co.jp
Subject: Re: [rt.endpoint.com #6084] endpoint.com website email: Reproduction

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, sales@endpoint.com via RT wrote:

Allow me to introduce myself that I am [name], Rights Controller of Maruzen Planet Co., Ltd., a publisher of Japan. It is a great pleasure to work with you on this occasion.

In this winter we will publish a title“ Nara of Times Now Past from 710 to 2010”

In this title, under your permission, we would like to reproduce your picture “NY Stock Exchange ”

Please show your terms of reproduction by return.

—–

Hello. Thanks for your email.

The terms for distribution of photos at http://www.epnewyork.com/ are as follows (in Japanese):

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.ja

If you agree with those terms, you have our approval to distribute the photo.

If you would like to arrange any different agreement, please let us know what you’d like to do and we can discuss an appropriate fee.

Thanks,
Freshgoat

Anyway. The photo they’re referencing is one I took of the New York Stock Exchange:

New York Stock Exchange

Viva America!

I kind of like the photo, at least from the standpoint that it’s very much what it is. ‘Course, I’m guessing I’ll never see what they do with it.

More impressive, I guess, is that this is the second time that some publisher has (a) found the EPNewYork website  and (b) found thereon a photo of mine that they wanted to use in a book. What are the odds, right? It really is a pretty well SEO’d website I guess, so that’s cool. Inasmuch as I like having people find and want to use photos I took, I should probably be grateful to Endpoint for paying me to develop this little site way back when. (And to the ‘goat for responding to the inquiries and letting me know about ’em.) It does make me wonder whether I should start putting together *other* city-themed websites in an effort to get *other* publishers to want to use my photos.

Anyway. Good times.

4 comments

  • telkontar

    Nara was an era in japanese history (first millenium AD).

    Nara is a prefecture east of Osaka. The capital city is Kinki (Americans love sweatshirts from Kinki University).

    Nara also means “if.”

    Why such a photograph in a book about past Nara– other than the fact that it is what it is?

    And goathead did not tell how to attribute the photograph while the license says it myst be attributed as required by the author. Something seems to be missing.

  • bkdunn

    Cannot imagine what this photograph has to do with Nara, regardless of being what it is. Creative Commons seems pretty stupid that way. They always say that you just have to give attribution, but no one ever says who you give the attribution to. But I don’t want to be the one who does what other creative commonsers don’t do.

  • goathead

    Well, the epnewyork.com website says clearly that copyright is by “End Point Corporation”, with a link to the website.

    I don’t think it requires a great leap of imagination on the part of publishers confusingly including the NYSE in a book about Nara to know “attribution” = “copyright holder” = “End Point Corporation” and/or http://www.endpoint.com/ and/or http://www.epnewyork.com/.

    But then I’m a bit of a simpleton.

  • bkdunn

    Sorry — WordPress (actually Akismet) marked your comment as spam. I think I have it set to do that if there are multiple URLs listed in the same comment. I should probably get rid of that…