Holy schmoly, we all gulped, gasped and said “huh?” when Getty Images, the world’s most famous stock library, went and bought out the microstock retailer istockphoto a while back.
Microstock libraries like istockphoto sell RF images for as little as $1. They have definitely had an effect on the sales of traditional RF priced photography as [...]
Rights ready image licences are a recent invention by stock photography library Getty Images. Introduced at the back end of 2006 to coincide with a new collection called ‘Lifesize’, Getty positioned this new licence type firmly between the traditional rights managed and royalty free licence types.
So what does a rights ready stock image license [...]
At some stage during your new stock photography career you’ll progress from shooting landscapes, your cat, small objects on a white background and begin submitting people shots. These are the money spinners, the real sellers.
At first the prospect of hiring professional models will seem daunting. So many people cut their teeth by shooting [...]
Following on from my last post about the licencing types that offer buyers rights protection and exclusivity on the usage of your images its important to understand how to add restrictions so that the image is ‘locked’ and unable to be sold for the exclusive rights to other would-be purchasers.
Hang on…. why would anyone [...]
A rights protected image license (abbreviated as ‘RP‘) is essentially an extended version of a traditional rights managed image licence. It grants (normally for an extra payment or higher price than a normal RM licence for the same usage) exclusivity of the image for a particular use so the buyer can be sure that [...]
