Somebody pointed out in another thread - to my shame! - that royalties get withheld by the UK government from Alamy photographers.
Now I've been spouting big words like anti-competitive and protectionist - and I would like to learn to what extent I've been a * in this regard.
If the UK is also withholding royalties, then it is definitely not an issue just with the IRS and the U.S. And it could definitely spell more trouble for the other agencies, because now 2 precedents are there.
Really - I'm coming at this with an empty bowl at the moment.
But I do worry that this growing red international red tape will cut the small submitters out of the game. And then that will leave the micro professionals, and then the mid and macro professionals might come in and fill the gaps the hobbyists left. And then everyones' income goes down : (
Right from top to bottom we will all get less.
Personally i don't care right now about money. But what if one day i want to go into space? Virgin Galactic tickets are something like 250,000 although i expect the price will come down significantly in a few years. Or so.
Lucy x
Just cos i'm stumbling in the dark, doesn't mean i can't guess at where the light switch is.