{"id":996,"date":"2013-03-14T21:14:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2013-03-14T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:19:53","slug":"still-working-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Still Working For Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>We have over three plus decades repeatedly written, urged, cajoled, screamed, advised, suggested and prodded members of the photography and illustration communities to never work for free. \u00a0There isn&#8217;t an argument or rationalization against that position that we haven&#8217;t heard a hundred times. \u00a0Now someone has made many of the same arguments that we have made in a beautifully written, logical article \u00a0<a title=\"working for free\" href=\"http:\/\/biznik.com\/articles\/freelancingor-working-for-free \"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/biznik.com\/articles\/freelancingor-working-for-free<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author is one Patty Soffer who works with a branding agency. Ms. Soffer is unknown to either of us but she makes the very same case we have made countless times in a succinct and persuasive manner. \u00a0We confess that we are jealous. \u00a0 Read the article. Her logic &#8211; like ours &#8211; is unassailable. \u00a0The fact that she appears to deal with many types of businesses including but not limited to photographers makes her suggestions even more persuasive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have over three plus decades repeatedly written, urged, cajoled, screamed, advised, suggested and prodded members of the photography and illustration communities to never work for free. \u00a0There isn&#8217;t an argument or rationalization against that position that we haven&#8217;t heard a hundred times. \u00a0Now someone has made many of the same arguments that we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,20,6],"tags":[477,160,159],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving-it-away","category-paperwork","category-stuff-you-should-know","category-you-cant-make-this-up","tag-giving-it-away","tag-patty-soffer","tag-working-for-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}