There’s so many great pics of g2 builds and glamor shots that someone should make a g2 calendar for this next year.
Or can someone point out where to find one.
We tried this a while back and it didn’t turn out all that great. If I remember correctly, there was some drama with respect to which Integras were chosen, but ultimately not many people wanted to buy one, which made the cost prohibitively expensive. I wouldn’t mind trying it again though – it’s been several years since that happened.
I would love one.
Yeah I think it we should. I mean we could use the top 12 pics we voted for a while ago.
I borrowed several professional pics of some beautiful, well built G2s that I really admired and uploaded them on a memory stick and took it to Staples and created a calendar some years back. I brought the idea to G2IC to sell the calendars but the issue of rights for the professional photographers that had taken the pics effected on how I sold the calendars online. So I sold the rest to the local G2 crew in my city.
I still do this to this day, but since hardly anyone in the G2 community are hiring professional photographers to take pics of their G2s, I started using other variety of cars that I like on the web and have the calendar made now. I don’t sell them but I always go to Kinkos, Stapes or Office Depot every December to have the new year calendar made.
Just upload some pics that you like on a memory stick and do this yourself. It should be no more than $20 to create one. It is your own personal calendar and you don’t need to get permission from the photographer that is responsible for the shoot. You just cant sell them and you don’t have to hear about other G2 owners wondering why they did not get their car put in the calendar. I chose pro pics over novice because it just makes the calendar look more pleasing year round.
Even though they are professional photos, are you sure it’s okay that you print a copy for yourself without their permission?
I may be able to get professional permission because I don’t make any money off of anything I do on G2IC. So it’s not for profit. :shrug:
I believe it would not matter for my own(or yours) personal calendar that you create for the simple fact that I (or anyone else) am not selling them (like I did in 2009) online for profit. To “my” understanding with the law, once the picture is up online, it is free game to those that want to do with the picture. If the picture is credited and or watermarked and you attempt to sell the picture online or on the streets or in stores, that is when a lawsuit can be filed by the photographer. I am using pictures online for my own personal calendar made by Kinkos and not selling them.
Now, with that said, in 2011 I made an attempt to create a calendar that had pictures with several watermarks and brought it to Office Depot. They had seen the watermarks and refused to build the calendar by law. They did however said if I took the pictures and blurred the watermarks, that there will be no attempt on selling this and they can make the Calendar. At the time, I wanted to have 5 calendars made for me and some local G2 members. With the watermarks on them, they would only make 1 for my personal use, 2 or more means that I am trying to collect a profit and I would have to have legal notarization from that photographer to have permission to make multiple calendars.
Example: If I have 12 pictures, 7 watermark pictures from 4 different photographers, then I would need permission from all 4 that is notarized to create mass amount of calendars for profit. I made my own individual calendar and gave the memory stick to the other G2 partners and they had to have their 1 calendar made for their personal use.
What if you said you were giving them as gifts? It sounds like it is very difficult to prove the intent for getting multiples.
I looked up some here and went to Walmart and made one for me, only paid like $12.
That’s a popular misconception. Just because a photo is posted online that doesn’t mean it’s public domain. Local laws may vary and there are certain exceptions depending on the circumstance, but generally copyright of a photograph belongs to the photographer and takes effect the instant the shutter is released. Enforcement is another matter altogether, but basically the only person authorized to reproduce an image is the person who holds the copyright.
I’m surprised Office Depot would make a distinction between one copy of a calendar vs. multiples if the images are owned by someone else. Seems odd, but that could be how your state law works.