Comment Re:Copyrigt was created because of greedy publishe (Score 1) 309
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Consider the majority of professional photographers who deal primarily with individual, personal clients. The photographer has only two real choices: charge lots more for doing the initial job (because they know full well that they're never going to sell any copies) or switch to a different market altogether. That doesn't benefit the consumer, does it? It just means those services cease to be available, not because the services aren't wanted any more but because the majority of consumers are too dishonest to be worth dealing with.
Sadly, I don't think there's a realistic solution to this. Not while the average consumer continues to believe it's okay to rip off the author because 'it's just for personal use'.
When I am commissioning some photography, I'm much more willing to pay a fair amount up-front and have unrestricted use of the works rather than pay far below what the actual market rate should be for the initial work and then have to pay inflated prices for prints of said works.
Sure, some people shopping around for, say, a wedding photographer will pick someone who charges a relative pittance up-front, not realising that they're going to get stung when it comes time to get some prints of the photos and you'll never be able to get the negatives or RAW files, but I specifically shopped around for a photographer who charged a higher, yet fair, amount up-front to cover the work they put in on the day and the work involved in processing and retouching the photos, but then sold me prints for what they cost to print (possibly with a small markup) and gave me the RAW files on disc.