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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 2831751, member: 73983&quot;]I have not said much in response to what has been posted.&nbsp; I have followed it and agree with several in here.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The theft of images has been blurred to the point of it becoming somewhat like a police officer attempting to pull over every vehicle going 5 mph over the posted speed limit.&nbsp; We all know that going 5 mph over the legal limit is breaking the law, but everyone else is doing it, so we comfort ourselves in knowing that more than likely that next cop won&#039;t pull us over.&nbsp; We figure they are simply looking for the guy going 15 mph over the limit and he will nail them.&nbsp; We do need to remember however, that it might be close to the end of the month and there is not much traffic on the road, if that cop wanted to, he could pull us over and write a ticket for going 5 mph too fast.&nbsp; He could simply be having a bad day or his boss is getting grief for not meeting the quota for citations.&nbsp; The reason he decided to pull you over today does not matter, what matters is you were still breaking the law.</p><p><br /></p><p>What needs to be done is a simple request for permission to use an image.&nbsp; If someone asked me ahead of time before using my images (and they have), I absolutely will give them that permission.&nbsp; What I don&#039;t tolerate is the assumption that they can use my images because they bought my coin.&nbsp; My images remain my images.&nbsp; I shot them purposefully to enhance the marketability of them by giving an accurate representation of the coin.&nbsp; That accurate representation of the coin helps to put me at a slightly better advantage of achieving my asking price than the next guy on eBay or whatever market it may be.&nbsp; It&#039;s why I offer and charge for my services to clients that might want to sell their coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>When a client commissions me to photograph their coins, they are entitled to the use those images however they choose, they have bought and paid for that right.&nbsp; It&#039;s the same reason that PCGS charges for the TV images either separately or through another service tier.&nbsp; The customer paid for the images they can then be used however the customer wants.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other side of the coin (pardon the pun) is that the image creator still retains the rights to the use of the images created for the client to be used as they wish.&nbsp; Typically it&#039;s usually for self promotion but it&#039;s not just limited to that.&nbsp; Also a true professional will not advertise who&#039;s coin he has shot, they simply offer the fact that they photographed the coin.&nbsp; The privacy of the client in most cases is paramount, unless the client has no issues with the revealing of their identity.&nbsp; This again is why PCGS lists almost all TV images they have shot on their CoinFacts page and don&#039;t list who submitted them.&nbsp; You will also notice that the PCGS logo appears on the image, it&#039;s for the promotion of their services.&nbsp; They want to continue to make money photographing coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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