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Karl Johnston
11th of July 2009 (Sat), 02:35
Here's the situation:

I did some promotional advertising for a company (non-profit) and am trying to decide on which license would be best beneficial for them. I'm not completely sure what kind of license I should use, but if I understand correctly...the best license, in this case, would be a rights managed license, correct, on an unlimited time frame? I was also trying to figure out how to price these.

I have used this calculator, in the past, though I am wondering just how dated it is. According to it I should be charging 250-750$ per image, does that sound about right? I've had positive feedback from other organizations that this is the norm...though i wonder if it applies to non-profit organizations, too...and if that will change anything
http://www.photographersindex.com/stockprice.htm

I'm not too adept with stock or licensing, but I know a bit of the basics for general stuff...though the key thing here is that nobody else get a hold of these images to use for their company promotion (or anything). I'm comfortable with that, but my other question is...what if someone steals it and then sells it? What kind of protection can I provide against that? How do I alter the licensing agreement to protect myself against that?

The big thing here is that I don't re-sell the images to multiple other companies for their promotion. I can understand that, and while I don't want to give away the rights ...what do you guys/girls think would be the best way to go about this?

I need a dedicated stock photo pricing scheme, has anyone got any favorites? I e-mailed Jim Sykes and he said Fotoquote was a good option

PhotosGuy
12th of July 2009 (Sun), 10:26
Did you ask what rights they need?
Did you ask what their budget was? what if someone steals it and then sells it? What kind of protection can I provide against that? How do I alter the licensing agreement to protect myself against that? Where do you live? In the US, the only protection you have is to register a CD with the images on it for $45. Your licensing agreement has nothing to do with someone else using your images.
Photoshop User TV interview with Ed Greenberg- Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czzNOPbJWk)

I especially like this provision:
"3. Grant of Rights. Upon receipt of full payment, Photographer grants to the Client the following nonelectronic
rights in the Work."

Karl Johnston
12th of July 2009 (Sun), 16:54
The thing that troubled me is how I would ensure the protection of their images to be used in only their ads. I suppose in retrospect it wouldn't be my responsibility to ensure their protection; it would be up to them to protect their rights through the licensing agreement they sign with me.

I'm In Canada; the situation is the same as in the US; registration would be the best option to ensure my rights on the images are kept safe. Now that that is taken care of, there still is the issue of what type of license to fit with these people.

They don't know what kind of license they want, they want me to select one for them. I'm wondering what is the best type of license to give them. "They don't know what to call what they want"

They did mention a couple of points, though:

1.They don't want the people in the images to be all over the world to anybody.

2. Some of the people in the pictures are kids not associated with their organization (their clients), and for that I know I need to make sure they have a release that grants me the rights to shoot them. This further makes me swing towards making it rights managed opposed to royalty free.

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Nevermind, spent the day reading into it and figured out what would be best. Thanks anyway