[dba-VB] Working on an Internet Shop - what is the usual official way to get good pictures of customers' goods for such a shop?

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Jan 27 16:30:15 CST 2011


Hi Shamil:

The customers I have, I put them incharge of supplying the pictures...and
therefore any copyrights issues are their concerns. 

I will do picture hunting but the time will cost. Also any picture
retouching, of which I do a lot of, is also billable time. One client
atually had me go around his store and photograph everything...I brought in
a photo backdrop and the lights and the camera and it took almost a week to
do 150 products... It would have been cheaper to get in a professional, but
they were concerned with copyright issues and as I were putting the items on
their new web site anyways, it was a lot easier for them.  

I think there is no issues with pulling product pictures off a manufacture's
web site as after all you are selling their products and as long as they are
given appropriate credit there should not be any issues. When downloading
pictures from Microsoft's sites, for the DBA web site, their official stance
was that they were copyrighted but unofficially they said help yourself as
long as you are using the picture to advertise our products and are given us
the appropriate credit. 

If you are using Professional Photographers pictures, that have been put up
for sale and are generally tagged with copyright, that is a whole different
set of negotiations and costing...one that the company will have to incurr.

Note: An artist's (photographer as well) right of ownership to their art can
never be removed. For example: A company may buy pictures for a particular
web site or advertising campaign but no matter what their contract says the
photographer still retains the ultimate rights to any further usage.

HTH
  
Jim

   

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:28 AM
To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.'
Subject: [dba-VB] Working on an Internet Shop - what is the usual official
way to get good pictures of customers' goods for such a shop?

Hi All --

It's a bit off-topic but it's about ASP.NET driven Internet shop I'm working
here on now.
The customer is a small company, and it's its first attempt to start selling
customers' goods on Internet.
The current issue is to make customers' goods photos for this shop - to make
them by themselves here or hire good photogrpahs - that's not possible not
because of financial issues but because of the way this company sells the
goods - many of them are never kept on the stores so it's not possible to
make good pictures of that goods right now. And the current intention is to
make this shop released ASAP: we use good "out-of-the-box" Internet shop
ASP.NET solution.

What is the usual official way to get that pictures?
I guess that most of the well known brands (that shop is for tennis shoes,
clothes, equipment...) do currently have ready to use pics for their
customer goods.
How to get that pictures officially?
What is the usual cost for such a customers good pictures' set for one year
models, for, say, Babolat, Nike, Head, ...?

Thank you.

--
Shamil
 

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