I'm starting to get annoyed with accounts reposting my and other photographer's work for their profit. After a discussion I had with 
Hive account@photo-trail, 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 
Hive account@jamtaylor's photo contest, proudly taken by me.
Expenses: Time and Money
| Photographer | Hive account@photo-trail (and similar accounts) |
|---|
| 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 Hive account@photo-trail's post or his copy-pasting skills? If people upvoted the photos, then why is Hive account@photo-trail 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 Hive account@photo-trail and received (to my knowledge) nothing from the profits. There are other accounts, which do the same, of course.
Hive account@adriansky
Hive account@alisawonderland
Hive account@allmonitors
Hive account@apprenticeoflife
Hive account@bitbuddha
Hive account@bragih
Hive account@brumest
Hive account@clodoweg
Hive account@cottonlazarus
Hive account@deanliu
Hive account@digitalis
Hive account@dolphinstudios
Hive account@dreamstream
Hive account@dxxxr
Hive account@ekavieka
Hive account@emanuellindqvist
Hive account@ericoliveira
Hive account@evildeathcore
Hive account@eyemapuppet
Hive account@foxkoit
Hive account@georgian
Hive account@gintama
Hive account@homeartpictures
Hive account@jasonrussell
Hive account@johndogett
Hive account@jsantana
Hive account@kommienezuspadt
Hive account@lightenup
Hive account@lighteye
Hive account@madlenfox
Hive account@maestroali
Hive account@marinauzelac
Hive account@markfitzgerald
Hive account@max28
Hive account@myroadtours
Hive account@omrusman
Hive account@outerground
Hive account@pm-me-your-dog
Hive account@restyler
Hive account@roytc123
Hive account@rushpictures
Hive account@shieha
Hive account@soonidrift
Hive account@tecnosgirl
Hive account@twogirls1planet
Hive account@unhorsepower777
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.
