[frank231160]

Ben
I have a question if you don't mind. Last year I attended my Nieces dance club show and took pictures and decided to e-mail them to my local free newspaper which deals with news of all sorts to do with the local community, it is a proper news paper and does have press photographers on their books and news teams etc. Anyway my cover letter or e-mail gave all the pertinent facts who, when, where and why and I asked if they would be interested in using them and confirm receipt of said images. I was contacted the next day to confirm they had received the images then heard no more, a week later my brother-in-law told me that my pictures were in the Crosby Herald their sister paper and the one I would not get in the Bootle area. Four of my images were used in their entertainment section along with a brief write up of the facts I had given them. I received no credit for the images and no payment, by sending the images had I given up my rights to those images and had they just summised that I was just some happy snapper, which personally I feel I am more than that and my images would have shown that although not masterpieces. I am a bit aggrieved that they did not contact me to tell me they wanted to use them and then to use them in a different paper, at the very least I would have liked a credit for the images. I won't be doing anything about it now but I really was chuffed and P****d off at the same time.
Frank