Who makes copies of the race pics you purchase? Why can't you make copies at the drugstore but easily make copies at home?
I made some copies of a finisher picture to include in Christmas cards this year (hmmm...irony). I took the proof to a drug store which had a picture maker, essentially a copy machine for pictures. I attempted to make some copies of the finisher pic. I will attest, you did have to accept some agreement that these were not photos from a professional photographer. I feel since I paid $100 for 5 pics that these pics were now mine. There's nothing that says "Copyrighted Material" any place on the pics. Given that, I attempted to make a bunch of wallets of my pic. Easy enough...right.
So I go to make the pic and the first guy watched me as I made a copy. Actually, he stood over me like a hawk. I told him I knew how to work the machine but he stood there the entire time anyway. It actually creeped me out about the way he stood there. Anyway, he typed in the password to print out my pics and I was on my happy way...or so I thought. His "boss" comes up before I'm about to pay for my copies, looks at my pictures and asks "Is this professional?" I said "No." He said "I'm sorry, I need to confiscate these. These are copies of a professional and what you're doing just isn't right." I went back and forth with this guy for a few minutes and his defense kept saying "I'm confiscating these (the copies). What you're doing just isn't right." I told him I'd just go somewhere else to do this and he just replied "That just isn't right." Um...okay.
I went to the same store but another location and had zero problems making the copies. The guy even gave me the password to the picture maker and didn't watch me like a swarming vulture over a festering carcass. I actually liked my pics here better. I got my pics and left.
First, my take is (flame away if you must) some minimum-wage-makin' clerk has more morals than me...big deal. He must have the financial wherewithal to pay insane prices for some copies from the prof. photog. It really doesn't make sense to me since I figure I already paid for them and then some. Secondly, I really don't feel sorry for the photographer who could be losing money on me since he already gutted me to begin with. Finally, I think "I should have torn those up...that guy was creepy!!" Now some creepy man and his equally creepy co-worker have 10 copies of my pic which also have my race number and first name on them. Ew.
So, am I going to hell or jail for this? Will I receive a "Cease and desist" letter from the photographer? Will my family be accessories to my crime? ;) I wish this didn't bug me but it does. The creepy man and his damn "morals" got to me. ;)
I made some copies of a finisher picture to include in Christmas cards this year (hmmm...irony). I took the proof to a drug store which had a picture maker, essentially a copy machine for pictures. I attempted to make some copies of the finisher pic. I will attest, you did have to accept some agreement that these were not photos from a professional photographer. I feel since I paid $100 for 5 pics that these pics were now mine. There's nothing that says "Copyrighted Material" any place on the pics. Given that, I attempted to make a bunch of wallets of my pic. Easy enough...right.
So I go to make the pic and the first guy watched me as I made a copy. Actually, he stood over me like a hawk. I told him I knew how to work the machine but he stood there the entire time anyway. It actually creeped me out about the way he stood there. Anyway, he typed in the password to print out my pics and I was on my happy way...or so I thought. His "boss" comes up before I'm about to pay for my copies, looks at my pictures and asks "Is this professional?" I said "No." He said "I'm sorry, I need to confiscate these. These are copies of a professional and what you're doing just isn't right." I went back and forth with this guy for a few minutes and his defense kept saying "I'm confiscating these (the copies). What you're doing just isn't right." I told him I'd just go somewhere else to do this and he just replied "That just isn't right." Um...okay.
I went to the same store but another location and had zero problems making the copies. The guy even gave me the password to the picture maker and didn't watch me like a swarming vulture over a festering carcass. I actually liked my pics here better. I got my pics and left.
First, my take is (flame away if you must) some minimum-wage-makin' clerk has more morals than me...big deal. He must have the financial wherewithal to pay insane prices for some copies from the prof. photog. It really doesn't make sense to me since I figure I already paid for them and then some. Secondly, I really don't feel sorry for the photographer who could be losing money on me since he already gutted me to begin with. Finally, I think "I should have torn those up...that guy was creepy!!" Now some creepy man and his equally creepy co-worker have 10 copies of my pic which also have my race number and first name on them. Ew.
So, am I going to hell or jail for this? Will I receive a "Cease and desist" letter from the photographer? Will my family be accessories to my crime? ;) I wish this didn't bug me but it does. The creepy man and his damn "morals" got to me. ;)