Callaway Editions, which recently published Madonna’s series of children’s books and has published the works of photo luminaries such as Irving Penn, had been convicted to pay approximately $160,000 for the loss of 213 color photographic transparencies and 62 black white negatives to photographer Macduff Everton.
This is exactly $500 for each of the color images lost and $250 for each missing black and white image, except interest and others costs. When Everton sought to resolve the matter earlier in a friendly way, Nicholas Callaway challenged him to “sue me.”
The press release of Edward Greenberg, Greenberg & Reicher, LLP, has more details.
Recently Greenberg had been on the panel "War On Photography II", an event sponsored by the Editorial Photographers and Advertising Photographers of America, presented at the PhotoPlus Expo 2004.
A very worth reading transcript of the discussion is availabe here: "OutreachEP - War on Photography II" or as pdf-file.
More about OutreachEP (motto "Photographers Mentoring Photographers") here at Editorialphoto.
