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Originally posted by Mutt
As for brokers shaving sales on photographers, i've seen nothing on the two broker sites I've poked around that would give the photographer any assurance that it can't be done or isn't being done.
The Net is a vast place, photographers/videographers are usually way in the background, the easiest people to fuck over.
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Well, I don' t know how far you "poked" into mine, but the fact of the matter is, we give publishers three different ways to have licenses issued, one of which is to have THEM send it out themselves. The other two both involve paperwork coming back to the photographer that was sent to the licensee by us. Any of these three methods would seem to make it a bit more difficult for us to "shave" anything, and option #3 makes it totally impossible, as the publishers can only send out the paperwork after they have been informed about the sale.
That would, of course, explain why we have never had anyone claim that we have shaved them.
One last thought: as far as the photographers being the easiest people to get the better of, I have to disagree. In my position, there are just as many photographers that play games, as people that play games with photographers. The most common things that I see in that regard are partnership breakups (where both sides claim sole ownership of all material), and photographers that sell "exclusive" rights to multiple people.