[Woodcarver] kind of exciting!

[Marcia Berkall]

Thank you everyone for your comments.  It was fun to see my carving 
on television last night, even briefly! :)
Donna, the trophy has not been duplicated at all.  No reproduction 
rights involved.  No contracts for use of my photo either.  The 
trophy goes back and forth between the teams to whoever wins the 
year's rivalry.  There is no way they could have duplicated that 
picture...it's a composite of two views that I photographed against 
my gray background.  Here's the picture on my web page 
http://whittlinsnwood.com/WWAlb/commissions/index.html  ...obviously 
the same picture.
I don't mind a photo of my carving being publicized.  What I do  mind 
is that they never asked for permission or even let me know.  They 
could/should have, at the very least,  mentioned my name!  Shame on 
Sports Illustrated!

Marcia (aka Mush)

At 07:13 PM 10/7/2009, you wrote:

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>Mush- I remember that commission as you were making it- but I didn't 

>realize to what use the original was going to be used. Have they 

>used your carving to make multiple copies for these trophies? It is 

>exciting to see your work showed around as much as that is. Big 

>congratulations to you.

>

>Personally I wouldn't mind if they used my photos of my work since 

>that is probably better than they could take and I would like my 

>work to look good. Wouldn't it be difficult to prove that it was 

>your photo anyhow? Couldn't they duplicate the photos from the 

>carving they bought? Or did you sell just the reproduction rights?

>It would also depend on what your contract states their rights to 

>the image are.

>

>Donna Menke

>http://www.woodworks-by-donna.com

>Author: The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book

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