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EBS Family Moments mail
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Hi,
After a bad week in work, I checked my mail when I came home & found a mail from the EBS about the family moments competition (you remember…. 20k prize!).
Basically, they were saying “I’m delighted to let you know that we are planning to use your image you submitted in an upcoming internal advertising campaign that will be on display inside our offices.
Once the print materials are finalised I will send you on some copies so that you can have them as a keep-sake”
Naturally, I thanked them and tongue in cheek inquired if they had any spare money lying around :wink:
So why GC and not announcement? Because I am a doubting thomas and suspect they say this sort of thing to all the boys/girls…..
Anyone else get one of these?
I reckon its kosher Des.
I had an email from them in Nove last year before the deadline for the competition saying they were going to use one of my shots in their calendar this year, and hey presto, they did.
I got no email off them this time about advertising in their branches, so well done!!!
Thanks Jody…
I got a reply saying that they would be post copies to me on Friday and they would be in stores nationwide from Monday if I would like to pop in and take a look.
Strangely my polite prompt for a photography grant was overlooked…… unless they slip something in with the copy.
Regardless, its a nice result….. although the 20k would have been even nicer!
Cheers
Bricker wrote:
Hi,
After a bad week in work, I checked my mail when I came home & found a mail from the EBS about the family moments competition (you remember…. 20k prize!).
Basically, they were saying “I’m delighted to let you know that we are planning to use your image you submitted in an upcoming internal advertising campaign that will be on display inside our offices.
Once the print materials are finalised I will send you on some copies so that you can have them as a keep-sake”
Naturally, I thanked them and tongue in cheek inquired if they had any spare money lying around :wink:
So why GC and not announcement? Because I am a doubting thomas and suspect they say this sort of thing to all the boys/girls…..
Anyone else get one of these?
My photo has been used on their tv adds :) (Well it’s a photo of my but my Dad took it)
It would appear that this company are using photographers to provide them with free advertising material.
If a photographer has their photos selected they should be paid for their material if used .If anyone is content with these fatcats using their photos for the egotrip of having work published without payment then it is a sad day for the photographic profession.
They save €kkk by getting naive individuals to provide them with free marketing material & it is wrong.I had a bank from the North contact me via an intermediary about using one of my photos for display in their offices where only their staff would see it and they paid me GBP£300 which they said was the going rate, and seeing it was the first time I had ever sold a photograph I gratefully accepted.
So I would have thought that EBS should be paying you something for using your work.
EBS ran a competition that everyone freely entered knowing the conditions of entry, which included the chance to win €20,000. Its not like the contacted photographers in order to obtain image rights for nothing.
I’d be the first to ensure that if a company contacted me that I’d recieve payment for image rights, in fact I turned down the sale of an image recently because the company were offering too small an amount for exclusive rights to one of my images, but I entered this competition with full knowledge of the T&Cs.
There are a lot more photographic injustices out there than EBS Family Moments competition
gs wrote:
If anyone is content with these fatcats using their photos for the egotrip of having work published without payment then it is a sad day for the photographic profession.
They save €kkk by getting naive individuals to provide them with free marketing material & it is wrong.I (along with many others) entered the competition, lured by the 20k first prize. In doing so I agreed to the T&C’s which gave them permission to use the images.
I dont consider myself to be on an ego trip, nor for that matter do I consider myself to be naive. By your logic everyone who enters the RTE weather competition (for example) is on an ego trip (and or naive)?
As it transpires, since the original post, they have used the photo in leaflets for credit cards and also in posters with the same message. I understand (not having been in an EBS office myself) that there are a number of diferent poster themes, with different photos used. They are due to be changed apparently next week with another batch of images uesd.
A point worth considering regarding the ego trip theme. Nowhere on the photo is the name of the photographer shown. However, the name of the subjetcs are…… in this case two of my kids. They are delighted with themselves and think it is a real blast to be “famous”…. that, my firend is payment enough – two happy kids.
Bricker wrote:
gs wrote:
If anyone is content with these fatcats using their photos for the egotrip of having work published without payment then it is a sad day for the photographic profession.
They save €kkk by getting naive individuals to provide them with free marketing material & it is wrong.I (along with many others) entered the competition, lured by the 20k first prize. In doing so I agreed to the T&C’s which gave them permission to use the images.
I dont consider myself to be on an ego trip, nor for that matter do I consider myself to be naive. By your logic everyone who enters the RTE weather competition (for example) is on an ego trip (and or naive)?
As it transpires, since the original post, they have used the photo in leaflets for credit cards and also in posters with the same message. I understand (not having been in an EBS office myself) that there are a number of diferent poster themes, with different photos used. They are due to be changed apparently next week with another batch of images uesd.
A point worth considering regarding the ego trip theme. Nowhere on the photo is the name of the photographer shown. However, the name of the subjetcs are…… in this case two of my kids. They are delighted with themselves and think it is a real blast to be “famous”…. that, my firend is payment enough – two happy kids.
I have to agree with Bricker on this one, seeing your face on living tv while your tucking into your pork chops is just priceless!!
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