I ain't make no money, gave it away. 🙂
Posted on 01/14/2023 4:10:53 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
A GRADUATED theater student's headshots were used for advertisements she never knew about.
"Thinking about that one time, I didn't read the fine print on my headshots contract, and my photographer sold my pics to stock photo sites," she expressed.
Christian moved her head to reveal a screenshot she took of her headshot being used for an R-rated book called "His Big, Childhood Sweetheart" by Samantha Drake.
A girl Christian knew spotted her photo at a news stand first.
A little while after, another photo of Christian was used on a billboard for breast reduction.
And that same photo was used for other stories about big boobs.
Most notably, Christian said her face was used on the cover of the Samantha Drake book about a plus-size Black woman falling in love with a rich white man.
She said this, like all others, has never offended her.
"Here's the sucky part about this whole thing," she divulged in another video.
"I ain't make no money."
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
Classy, lady!
Regards,
She has a good attitude about what happened, but the original photographer should have told her she was signing a release form. A good lawyer could probably help her collect some of the earnings.
This happened to my sister.
She did a magazine shoot when she was a freshman in college. Several years later, I am driving down a country road and there she is on a huge billboard - well, a woman laying on her side smiling at the camera in a soda advertisement with my sister’s face pasted on.
Also, the magazine has run her other pictures again and again and again. She knew what she signed but didn’t expect it to go as far as it did. Also, she called the soft drink HQ and demanded they remove her face and they did remove the entire advertisement.
sorry, read what you sign lady.
I’m waiting for a mugshot before determining guilt or innocence.
—”A good lawyer could probably help her collect some of the earnings.”
Any guess as to the big bucks from the photo sale?
My guess is somewhere between zero and not much?
She has a great sense of humor.
She said she doesn’t have the contract. Who knows - maybe she never really agreed to allow this photographer to sell her photos.
Just like the stories of people whose online photos were stolen and sold without their permission. I read about one that turned up on a billboard in another country.
It has been greatly exacerbated by people who are unwilling to read a twenty page document to obtain a few minutes of convenience on the Internet.
Somebody got a thesaurus for Christmas.
And an alleged college graduate? Sheesh.
—” I stopped reading and lost all interest at “plus size black woman”!!”
Down at the gutter where I find the best information, it is said that the big ones provide warmth in the winter and shade in the summer.
NB: Ben Franklin said, “…it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one.
And as in the dark all Cats are grey….” Or dark or white or Calico...
Apparently, you are missing out on some real-life comfort.
Who would want to use that beastly looking face for anything?
I ain't make no money, gave it away. 🙂
—”Who would want to use that beastly looking face for anything?”
This brings up the question, of how many times your mug has been published, much less profitably sold.
From the perpetually aggrieved. Give me money. Welfare payments, free housing and food stamps aren’t enough.
May as well have pictures of animals in a zoo, or mud huts in Rwanda.
I don’t know how common it is but years (decades really) ago when we regularly went to professionals for family photos was surprised to learn we did not “own” the photo, the photographer did!
I am sure it was in the “contract” but who reads the fine print when getting photos taken.
You would think somewhere in the theater program somebody would have taught the students where a big income for photographers is and make sure you read the contract and make sure it isn’t actually a release.
If the model signed a release she is SOL.
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