Stock Photography: Adding exclusive usage restrictions to your RM or RP images

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 [...]

Understanding licensing types: Rights Protected or Exclusive image licences

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 no [...]

Understanding licensing types: Rights Managed image licences

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 [...]