I'm starting to get annoyed with accounts reposting my and other photographer's work for their profit. After a discussion I had with , who, as a number of other accounts, had previously reposted my photos without my consent, I have to raise this issue with the Steemit community.
Let me make a comparison, so you get my point.
One of the winners of 's photo contest, proudly taken by me.
Expenses: Time and Money
| Photographer | ||
|---|---|---|
| Photo equipment | $500-$50,000 | $0 |
| Travel expenses | A couple of dollars to thousands | $ 0 |
| Location rent / Model payment | Nothing to thousands of dollars | $0 |
| Chance of getting a fist up your face (street photography) | 0-100% | 0% |
| Time to take a good photo | Hours to weeks | 0 hours |
| Photo experience to take a good photo | Thousands of hours | 0 hours |
| Professional post processing software | Hundreds of dollars | $0 |
| Time to post process a photo | 10 minutes to an hour | 0 hours |
| Time to publish a photo | 10 minutes | An hour to gather some other people's photos |
| Profits | $0 | Hundreds of dollars: Link, Link |
So my question is: Did people upvote the photos in 's post or his copy-pasting skills? If people upvoted the photos, then why is
taking the profits from other people's work?
Don't get me wrong. Curation services are great. But just as any gallery, the curator should take a percentage on the sale and a big chunk should go to the author of the work of art. And I don't see this happening.
Here is an alphabetical list of photographers, whose work was "featured" in the last couple of posts by and received (to my knowledge) nothing from the profits. There are other accounts, which do the same, of course.
I hope I can start a discussion and see what other photographers think. Thank you for taking the time to read my rant, and I'll be grateful for a resteem, so this issue can reach a wider audience.