Just what is this “Orphan Works” thing I keep hearing about. It’s all over the web now. It sounds pretty serious. Trouble is, there’s just so much out there to read (just Google ‘Orphan Works’ if you don’t believe me) and this is legislation, so its not exactly written in plain English.
But wait […]
photo credit: cell105
Uh oh,
A very large lid has just been taken off a huge can-o-worms that could have far reaching repercussions for both photographers and blog publishers who don’t realise what they may be letting themselves in for.
Tags: Comment, copyright, credit lines, flickr, Photography Business, releases, usage, wordpress plugin
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Since the advent of digital more and more people are making images. That’s a good thing. The downside is that the explosion of photo sharing sites like Flickr and PBase have created a ready made amateur market for business savvy publishers to exploit.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re not doing anything […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rights managed licencing is the oldest (and some would say best) way of selling your work. Rights managed licences give you complete control over how to charge fairly for your work and can apply equally to commissioned work when pricing photography or stock library sales. Pricing rights managed commissioned work is the subject of another […]
A common stumbling block among new photographers is how to sell their photography work and the role of licenses (a usage agreement) in managing the rights that their work automatically holds.
I’ll cover copyright in another post but for the purposes of this post lets assume you live in the UK, USA or one of the […]
