I’ve always wanted to see my work published, so when my friend Justin suggested I had been in a photo book called “Australia: A Celebration” he found in Kmart, I went investigating.
$16! What a bargain!
Oh, there I am.
If you’re liking these photos, I reckon you’d really like my Unsplash portfolio where you can use all the images for free.
You just can’t sell them.
And there I’m not. No attribution, at the least.
No permission sought, or license payment made.
Off to the lawyers we go.
Some updates
In sharing this story with a friend today I realised that I hadn’t updated this story.
In a later post I told how:
The publisher freaked out, took the book off the shelves, and called me to apologise. They ended the phone call with a commitment to come back with a compensation plan, but so far nothing.
The short update is that nothing happened and I wasn’t willing to pony up the thousands of dollars to rake on Kmart Australia. Why Kmart you ask? The publisher told me that they just build the books that Kmart tells them to make. Kmart is in the business of taking the best things of this world that we all want to buy, stealing creative work, and then getting it made dirt-cheap, and selling for the best margins.
And I’m not the first or last person that Kmart has stolen from …
- Sabo Skirt accuses Kmart of duplicating designs
- It happened to Decoylab
- and Hunt Furniiture
- and Bumbi Baby
- they literally left the Shutterstock watermark on these images
It’s pretty hard to boycott a brand these days, but boy do I hard not to byu from Kmart or any of their friends inside parent company Wesfarmers