Greetings to all!
While searching for travel and ski destinations, I came upon a major resort that's world renowned for it's Summer and Winter activities. I was amazed at the website's beautiful panoramic landscape photo that's used to market this particular resort worldwide. The issue here is that the photograph is mine! The resort did not have my permission to use this photo or another photo of mine that was also found their marketing. My initial agreement was that their marketing department had first right of refusal for any images I took while at the resort and fees/licensing would be negotiated based on their media buy and a sliding scale percentage for any photo used. I was never contacted after this freelance photography session and assumed they were not interested in using them. I'm a little miffed at this blatant attempt to use my photography for free, but don't want to burn this bridge either. I'll need to determine their website traffic and total media buy for this campaign, but not sure how to determine that if their marketing dept. is not forthright in disclosing this information. Has anyone experienced this and offer any suggestions?
While searching for travel and ski destinations, I came upon a major resort that's world renowned for it's Summer and Winter activities. I was amazed at the website's beautiful panoramic landscape photo that's used to market this particular resort worldwide. The issue here is that the photograph is mine! The resort did not have my permission to use this photo or another photo of mine that was also found their marketing. My initial agreement was that their marketing department had first right of refusal for any images I took while at the resort and fees/licensing would be negotiated based on their media buy and a sliding scale percentage for any photo used. I was never contacted after this freelance photography session and assumed they were not interested in using them. I'm a little miffed at this blatant attempt to use my photography for free, but don't want to burn this bridge either. I'll need to determine their website traffic and total media buy for this campaign, but not sure how to determine that if their marketing dept. is not forthright in disclosing this information. Has anyone experienced this and offer any suggestions?
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