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If the Record used it without them buying it from you or the Advertiser; or if they bought it from the HA and you reserved rights then you can pretty much demand what you like from them.
Crucial to the argument is how the the HA got the image in the first instance.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Newspapers share images all the time particular within stable papers. Images from our local paper for example will end up in the daily mail if there is a national interest. This happened recently when sacha baron Cohen appeared in a pub in Cleethorpes doing some film research. The local paper saw a local guys camera phone image on twitter and asked if they could use it, the same image was then shared around various uk newspapers with the mail group earning licensing rights and the guy on twitter earnt nothing.
So did you send them your photo to use Peter?
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If the Hamilton Advertiser bought the image from you with all rights then, other than the lack of ego massage by way of a byline, what is the problem?
They didn't buy it from me Ken. I took the photo of the young biker recently. When he asked for a few images for a newspaper article, I gave them to him on the condition that I get an 'ego massage', not too much to ask I thought.
As the kid is only 11 I quite suspect that probably his father dealt with the paper and gave them the photo(s).
Hindsight is great and is how we learn from our experiences. Next time I am sure you won't make the same choice. I think this happens to a fair few photographers and makes them a little smarter next time round.
On a positive the image looks great in the paper.
Tight crop to image is routine for press use.
I would say 80% paper, 20% father/lad for the missing accreditation.
Ask them to publish a small thumbnail of it 40mm square with your name and details.
edit to add
Thinking about it: 75:20:5 Paper:Father:You
As for hassling for an apology or update just makes you out to be a bit of a pita. I would let it go but tell the bikers family in future you must get a credit. I would also consider filling in all the metadata within the image and supplying them with a new JPEG so this doesn't happen again.
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Have a look at the EXIF data and tell me what I missed.
Here's the image I sent:-
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In Photoshop the details are again there. The only thing I would add in the Copyright Notice section is an email address and a further statement that unauthorised use is prohibited - just to re-inforce it.
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This one from the Hamilton Advertiser
This one from The Daily Record, with credit to the Hamilton Advertiser for the photo.
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Lastly, my original . . .