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Stock Photography: Can you sell an image as RF and RM at the same time?

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Hoo boy….
There’s one “L” of a debate :) going on over at the Alamy stock photography forums (link to the debate at the bottom of this post). It seems that some contributors are placing the same image at two separate libraries with a simultaneous RM and RF license.
They are placing the […]

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Selling on Alamy: Royalty Free or Licenced?

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Never in the field of internet forums has this thorny question arisen so frequently. Often asked by those with only a Royalty Free (RF) experience of selling stock images (like those coming from microstock) it is a good question. The world of Rights Managed (RM) stock selling is all […]

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Understanding licensing types: Royalty Free image licences

Royalty free licencing of images is a fairly new idea. Introduced by Getty Images in the mid 1990s and quickly taken up by the other stock agencies of the day as an alternative way of buying image rights it quickly became a hot topic for photographers and remains controversial to this day.
So what does […]

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