Sitting by the side of the road, drooling.

Alan, I loved your above cartoon so much I copied and used it on my blog post. Just kidding.

Alan, great post!  I am always amazed by the people who lack the intregity of requesting approval or giving credit to an author, photographer, etc.  Apparently, they have a vacillating code of ethics.

Hey, I think Jenna Dixon and I may have worked in the same department at the same corporation!!!   

I was totally surprised & I said so. I thought the post was assinine and sounded childish. I want your photos & you better give them to me .... nawwww nawwww.

You also elevate that gentlemen by saying 'well known and respected'.  I believe he/she knocked himself off his appointed throne.  In this day and internet age, are we going backwards?

Great artwork!  It was very kind of you to leave the names off the villagers!

I was speechless....you hear that? I, as in me, was actually speechless. I made no comment because it would have turned into a mini-novel. Thanks for disagreeing too.

Deb

I second that in spades (LOL).

I actually was at a photo shoot today for a new listing. The previous agent's firm does watermark their logo on all their photos. They use the same photographer that I used to use. To be honest, I'm not sure if the broker owns the photos or the photographer. Even though I had new pictures taken, I wonder if I could have bought the photos from the photographer.

Five years ago I listed and sold a property, I was with Coldwell Banker at the time, they paid for the photos. I recently re-listed and sold the same apartment again through my new firm The Corcoran Group. I took some new pictures but I used one of the old shots that I had saved. The $ amount of the photo was debited from my ad budget and the invoice had the name of the original photographer. I thought I owned the photo but apparently not. CB is no longer in Manhattan, Corcoran is owned by NRT, Reology which also owns CB so it seems the photo is the property of the photographer.

Mitchell Hall post 83, the photographer who takes a photo is always the owner until s/he licenses someone else to use it for specific or general purposes. It is the "work product" of the photographer.

I use my own photos and stock photos that I buy and I don't want others stealing them.

For the stock photos, they can go and buy them the same way I do. For my own photos if someone thinks they are good enough for them to use, they can ask and I'll make a decision based on the need and the usage.

Unfortunately we will always have those that will agree with the poster even though they really don't believe.  These are the same ones that list a house for what the seller wants rather than what the market dictates. 

Alan, not much I can add here that hasn't been said.  Except that I understand the in your face, look at me, self promotional style and as someone said "drink the kool-ade" I was not going to feed into any of that over inflated sense of worth.

I did want to stop by here just to say kudos to you for representing yourself with professionalism and intelligence.

Yup.  I put my two cents in on post sides of that coin.  Aaron was "virtually" hog tied.