According to the legal counsel of Pacific Press Agency, Mr Herman Lumanog, CEO of Pacific Press Photo Agency, did Not sell these images, of which I am the Author and copyright holder, to the end user, Deutsche Welle.
“Pacific Press was not the one who sold to parties who used the said images since they only distribute to agencies as well”
As per credit attribution, adjacent although not prominent, to these Deutsche Welle images, they were in fact marketed/distributed/shared by PPA to PA, DPA Picture Alliance GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German Press Agency dpa.
Not only were the above Deutsche Welle sales, unreported in my PPA sales report, but also #UnPaid.
#Unreported Sales to Deutsche Welle
Although the legal counsel of PPA clearly states:
“As regards to sales, you may rest assured that the 30 images that were used by several publications included but not limited to Deutsche Welle,Infomigrants and The Guardian have been properly accounted for in their records”,
Deutsche Welle is naturally not obligated to disclose their contractual relationships with their rights owners:
Picture Alliance refers their visitors to Pacific Press Agency
It appears that Picture Alliance refers their visitors to PPA to license their images featured on Picture Alliance Website:
Neither did Mr Herman Lumanog pay me royalties for The Guardian, Radio France, AlJazeera, Condé Nast, Microsoft, Tower Media Middle east, and InfoMigrants.
Agency shall remit to the Contributor a royalty of fifty per cent of the net revenue invoiced and reported by Agency for the licensing of Contributor’s images through the Pacific Press Agency worldwide
Thus, according to the above sales report, Mr Lumanog made a median net revenue of approximately 2,34 USD per image sold, after sales to PPA partner agencies, resulting in a median royalty of 1,60 USD per image to the Contributor.
PPA Public price of image license as compared to royalties in PPA sales report https://t.co/zziWivQVCA
#UnpaidRights
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