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I searched the forum but couldn't find an answer, are we supposed to be credited if our image is used in book covers?

Just found a new book today published in November 2010 with a detail from one of my photos on the cover, but only the designer is credited, no photographer credit. The cover design is a white box and line over my photo with the author name and book title. Should we be credited for this use?

Thanks!

Can't say i like this. Agencies should at least advice customers that it would be appropriate to give credit for print use.
I recently downloaded an image from photocase and there was a notice that credit should be given to "photographer/agency".

I'm not saying that agencies should go after customers if they don't but at they should advice them what is proper for certain uses and leave it to their own judgment. I have a couple of other books from the same publishing house and they give separate credit to designer/illustrator in one book which has a painting on the cover.

I knew i had a book somewhere that had credit from istock and i just found it:

http://cd.pbsstatic.com/xl/07/1107/9780753821107.jpg

Clearly states in the back cover " cover photograph : (c) GlennBristol/iStockphoto - Design: Sue Michniewicz"

Maybe it's the subscription sites that don't require to credit photographers.

Watch my lips: iStock doesn't require credits except for editorial.
That doesn't mean they can't give credits either because they want to or (maybe: me speculating again) if they have a reciprocal arrangement with iStock. E.g. in the past I've noticed websites, magazines and even two books which credited iStock and offered a discount if you signed up to buy images. That would need to be an official arrangement.
Credits are not forbidden.

I cannot speak about other agencies.

I'm not required to wear shoes when I go out in the snow. I can if I want to. :-)

If the designer only is credited, does it imply he has the copyright of the material he used? He can not claim that, so the right thing would have been crediting the photographer(s).

I have found some images of mine in bookcovers, in some I was able to find a credit, but in others I only found the cover itself online.

Madelaide and dk: I do have sympathy with your pov. It really should be that the 'tog gets a mention at least for a front cover. I've got one with only the designer's name credited (found via Designer's Spotlight), and like dk, was quite miffed.
And i've just spend a merry half hour looking for credits via Google. Found one of mine on the home page of the Scottish Parliament, a couple of others I could PrintScreen and several acknowledged as being inside books where I couldn't get into the appropriate page.
Hey, FWIW, I also think that it should cost more to buy an image for a front cover. But that's RM.

  Cool! and scary,  all at the same time. No more "under the radar" i guess. As for photo credits, the only one I care about is the one that says" pay to the order of..."