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Mutt, as a creative person I can appreciate your sentiment and the implications of the internet and changes in the business of creativity. But, even still, that is only a photo of a jar half full of change. It's not like someone would have had to hire a photographer special to create some complicated shot with an expensive human model or animal or exotic location with special props. Without the existence of the stock agency online maybe the photographer would have gotten paid a day rate or flat fee, maybe $500 or a grand to shoot a cover? A quote of ten grand seems wildly excessive for such a simple shot. I guess one has to look at it that the photographer can get some publicity from it in today's internet connected world. Plus the idea that the existence of the stock photo agency to begin with gives him another outlet to make some residual money from his content, just like the pennies the big VOD companies give adult studios to license their content per minute or per download.
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