Oliver Gassner: Digitale Tage

Funny world.
"Herder GmbH" , a christian publisher who makes a printed family mag would like to print one of my photos for free. It's a portrait of Miriam Pressler, a German children's book writer. They found the pic on a Swiss website which used it without asking me. (At least they mentioned - but not linked - my homepage. How kind. Really.)
My lawyer says that a Swiss lawyer - who might have a chance to get my money - charges 250 EUR an hour. In advance. If the guys were in germany they 'd have a decent bill by now. (Lawyer says: Normal charge, doubled.)
The christian mag won't even pay me with a free subscription, they are 'operating on a low budget'.
I will try that approach when I am at the baker's next time.
'I am operating on a low budhget. People want my work for free or steal it. Can I have that bread for free? Or will you look away while I just grab it and run?'
BTW: I am publishing my stuff under Open Publication License, v1.0 or later. But as soon as the license is not attached to the work, I feel *totally* free to charge for it.
Should I not? (They violated that license at several points.)
What I should is update to a CC-License ;-)

• Fliegenfischer
• Kaffee und Kirche
• Illingen: Neujahrsempfang 2004

• Schritte gegen Tritte: Zivilcourage
• Missbrauchs-Prävention
• Gewaltprävention
• Trennungsväter auf dem Weg nach Karlsruhe<

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Die Absolute Wreaders sind mit ihrer Gruppeninstallation auf IUnitiative von Hannes Auer bei den "Hypertext Readings
at ACM Hypertext 03 in Nottingham, Aug. 26-30 2003" vertreten. Teil der Installation sind auch Kommentare zu meinem 'tango rgb', meine Kommentare zu den anderen 'Wreaders' (reinhard döhl, sylvia egger, martina kieninger, beat suter/rene bauer, johannes auer) und eine 'scrolling frames'-Installation von mir.
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Update: 'Absolute wreaders' got an award by dtv/t-online (a publishing company and a big German telco) and is exhibited at p01esis in Berlin, which starts kinda today or started yesterday.

Die Dichterduell-Homepage wird langsam präsentabel. Am Donnerstag war Premiere.
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We are doing a special slam-poetry-event. It's called "Dichterduell". The first round was on thursday and I finished most of the work on the site.