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Thoughts of a Bohemian » Wall of Shame](http://blog.melchersystem.com/2009/07/01/wall-of-shame/):

Running a photo agency used to be a gentleman sport. You represented photographers and if, for some reason, the relationship did not work out, regardless the contract, everyone would gently part their own way .  These days, contracts are like hammers, mostly used to crush a photographer into the ground.