The long way round

[Michael Romanos]

This is quite amusing. One of the people meantioned in my book Amazing NZ Dog Stories, yesterday came across the Go Corgi website somehow and spied my splurge on the book on Go Corgis home page. The person Pam Winter, who became the owner of the dog featured on the front cover of the book, still lives in Christchurch, NZ but sent me an email saying she will forward me a cheque for US$21 for a signed copy of the book. So I told her to forward me a New Zealand cheque instead. But it's certainly the long way round of finding a book that includes yourself and your dog as a leading story.

By the way, I told Pam to get a Corgi quick and join Go Corgi.

[yonae12]

I wish one of my dogs was put on the front cover of a book.

[Michael Romanos]

Here is one way you can get your dogs and parrot in a magazine and even maybe on the front cover of a dog or pet magazine. Get a semi-pro or fully professional photographer to takes shots of your threesome together in poses that will look funny or pull at the heart-strings, and send photocopied copies of those photos to various mags and one or more of them might just be in the market for buying a properly reproduced pic off you.

[Lady's Daddy]

This topic is so out of line Michael. I am so disgusted with you. Thought I'd be the first to write a response to you appalling behavior. LOL

[Michael Romanos]

Lady's Daddy -You are the biggest scumbag on the website and you can sue me for saying that, along with the producers of rotten dog food. How dare you question my recipe for promoting Corgis and members array of domestic pets on the covers and in the pages of magazines. Get Glencorgi to put together a dossier of my scurrilous remarks. Oops, I shouldn't offer you any help. But it is just another trick on my part to lead almost everyone up the garden path.

[Michael Romanos]

Lady's Daddy - would you buy a magazine that on the cover had a photo of a cute Corgi cuddling up close to a howling Basengi and on the Corgi's head perched a brilliantly coloured parrot either playfully pecking at the Basenji's muzzle or gestering that he quieten down.

I know I would.

[llanfey]

What is a Basengi?

HR

[Mvons]

Originally Posted by Michael Romanos

The person Pam Winter, who became the owner of the dog featured on the front cover of the book, still lives in Christchurch, NZ but sent me an email saying she will forward me a cheque for US$21 for a signed copy of the book. But it's certainly the long way round of finding a book that includes yourself and your dog as a leading story.

Question: Isn't there some legal issue that you have written about a person's dog, more importantly a photo without their permission or knowledge it would be in a book, or are pets exempt from the legal ownership of photos?
Answer: no legal issue on photo:
Pets are personal property that do not have the same privacy rights as humans. So anyone can photo any pet or personal property and publish as long as a human is not in the photo. The photographer might have copyright on the photo that they take.

Personally I'm shocked that someone in the book doesn't get a free copy. After all if there was no story and no animal to photo, you wouldn't have a book.

Merrie

[Michael Romanos]

Merrie - you made some good points ( well done).

On my recommendation, the photo for the cover was purchsed by the publishers from the Christchurch Press newspaper for reproduction. It had nothing to do with who owned the dog in question.
You are right, all the featured people that I had interviewed for the 21 stories should have been given a free copy of the book - but in my opinion, these should have come from the publishers. For my part, every story in the book was published with minor differences in magazines and every featured person got a copy of the respective magazine sent to them by me. I also invited every person featured to my book launch and a number of them attended.

It so happens that Pam Winter was only a small bit player in the story which involved her. Of course the dog is the main star and in this case a guy who was the caretaker of a Reserve and actually wanted to become the owner of this stray dog, was the main story teller.

JUst to add some spice which I don't normally do, the actions you mentioned about a guy getting money out of another because of a published photo I presume was innocuous, is to me very poor form ( and that is puting it mildly).

HR - sorry Basenji not Basengi. Out of Africa. One of the most unique type of dog breeds in the world. They don't bark - they yodel.