Ooops

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/humans-of-new-york-dkny-photos-hony_n_2759752.html?ref=topbar

Love there defense.  It was an internal use only full-sized mock-up that they sent to the store in Thailand to show how the unrelated actually licensed images were to be displayed. 

ahhh and of course somebody told him he was being underpriced :

"A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said 'no.'"

yes an no
if we talk of assignments, yes, 50$/photo is a scam.

but if we talk about stock, 50$ is more than ok if you ring an agency and ask to buy a bulk of 2-300 images for an indoor "collage".

both parties should have known better.
besides, it's not surprised they only budgeted 10-15K$ for something like that, we're not talking of massive advertising campaigns, it's just a fricking indoor collage for F .. sake, customers will probably not even look at it, actually it could be a distraction from buying clothes in my opinion.

I wonder what DKNY caught a another company making a "mock-up" with their designs. We would not be even talking anywhere near 100K in damages

i agree he should have dealt on this privately, now he will get his 25000$ but i'm afraid he will be blacklisted by many fashion customers in the future.

refusing 15000 for some large format prints in a store selling clothes ?
i dont get it.

he must be really thinking his street stuff are masterpieces ... tsk tsk tsk !
they could have made it with cheap Thinkstock photos or even using public domain stuff pilfered on the web.

Maybe you don't know HONY -- but it's kind of a big deal. Personal taste aside (I think his work is remarkable, culturally if not always technically), his is one of the most popular Tumbler blogs.

Does that sort of use count as 'editorial'?

Are DKNY in the 'news' business nowadays? I thought they sold clothes.

i agree he should have dealt on this privately, now he will get his 25000$ but i'm afraid he will be blacklisted by many fashion customers in the future.

I see nothing in the story to suggest he'd care.