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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6212696" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>So, @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=607" target="_blank">Klaus</a></u></strong></em> put me onto this a while back. I recently spotted someone asking for freelancers to work in exchange for exposure with nebulous promises that working for free for them might lead to a job in the industry - something I honestly thought folks had stopped doing 10 years ago, but I'm not a freelancer and don't do it myself [I'll admit that I did it over a decade ago back when ENP was Natural 20 Press and we produced our ezines, but I hope I've learned since), so I guess I should have been paying more attention. Anyway, it reminded me of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Pactartist" target="_blank">Art PACT</a>, which was an organization Kickstarted a while back and dedicated to getting fair pay for artists.</p><p></p><p>It's not just artists, of course. Writers, editors, graphic designers - they all get asked to work for exposure.</p><p></p><p>Over the last decade, I've felt that there has been a lot of movement to increase perception of why this is a bad thing. That's why it surprises me to see it in 2013; it feels to me like I'm seeing an anachronism from years past.</p><p></p><p>I myself always work to pay artists, writers, etc. a fair amount. I like to think that's why folks like Claudio Pozas are always willing to work for ENP, and I also feel that a healthy relationship like that leads to better results. To be fair, I'm far from perfect; over the years there have been times when I've been late in paying freelancers, sometimes inexcusably late.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow. I'm interested in the thoughts of freelancers and of publishers. Not just art (Art PACT is just a visible example), but all RPG freelancing. If you're a freelancer, have you done work for exposure recently? If you're a publisher have you commissioned work for exposure? What do you think of the practice?</p><p></p><p>To be clear: I myself am fully against paying in exposure and believe I'm morally obligated to pay freelancers a fair rate. I *hope* that freelancers who have worked for me feel that that is the case.</p><p></p><p>So this Art PACT idea seems a good one to me (though I feel there should be something similar for writers, editors, etc.). The only minor reservation I have is that they plan to have an <em>anonymous</em> rating system for companies; and we all know that even amongst the wonderful folk that make up the artist community there are unethical people who screw publishers over with poor, late, or non-existent work (it's happened to me a good couple of dozen times over the last 10 years), and who might use such a tool for the wrong reasons if the publisher hurts their feelings in response. I'd much rather that not be anonymous so that an artist with a personal vendetta can't harm a publisher without good reason - they should be accountable. But that's just a minor aside, it's a tiny percentage of freelancers and not typical behaviour in the slightest, and I'm sure it won't cause a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6212696, member: 1"] So, @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=607"]Klaus[/URL][/U][/B][/I] put me onto this a while back. I recently spotted someone asking for freelancers to work in exchange for exposure with nebulous promises that working for free for them might lead to a job in the industry - something I honestly thought folks had stopped doing 10 years ago, but I'm not a freelancer and don't do it myself [I'll admit that I did it over a decade ago back when ENP was Natural 20 Press and we produced our ezines, but I hope I've learned since), so I guess I should have been paying more attention. Anyway, it reminded me of [URL="https://www.facebook.com/Pactartist"]Art PACT[/URL], which was an organization Kickstarted a while back and dedicated to getting fair pay for artists. It's not just artists, of course. Writers, editors, graphic designers - they all get asked to work for exposure. Over the last decade, I've felt that there has been a lot of movement to increase perception of why this is a bad thing. That's why it surprises me to see it in 2013; it feels to me like I'm seeing an anachronism from years past. I myself always work to pay artists, writers, etc. a fair amount. I like to think that's why folks like Claudio Pozas are always willing to work for ENP, and I also feel that a healthy relationship like that leads to better results. To be fair, I'm far from perfect; over the years there have been times when I've been late in paying freelancers, sometimes inexcusably late. Anyhow. I'm interested in the thoughts of freelancers and of publishers. Not just art (Art PACT is just a visible example), but all RPG freelancing. If you're a freelancer, have you done work for exposure recently? If you're a publisher have you commissioned work for exposure? What do you think of the practice? To be clear: I myself am fully against paying in exposure and believe I'm morally obligated to pay freelancers a fair rate. I *hope* that freelancers who have worked for me feel that that is the case. So this Art PACT idea seems a good one to me (though I feel there should be something similar for writers, editors, etc.). The only minor reservation I have is that they plan to have an [I]anonymous[/I] rating system for companies; and we all know that even amongst the wonderful folk that make up the artist community there are unethical people who screw publishers over with poor, late, or non-existent work (it's happened to me a good couple of dozen times over the last 10 years), and who might use such a tool for the wrong reasons if the publisher hurts their feelings in response. I'd much rather that not be anonymous so that an artist with a personal vendetta can't harm a publisher without good reason - they should be accountable. But that's just a minor aside, it's a tiny percentage of freelancers and not typical behaviour in the slightest, and I'm sure it won't cause a problem. [/QUOTE]
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