Pricing Braveheart

[auke bonne van der weide]

An company from india asked a full license for a period of four years.

What do you consider a reasonable price?

Are there any US guidelines for pricing and contracting?

 

Here is the picture

http://www.photo.net/photo/2395519

[bob_macdonald]

That's a truly outstanding photograph! I'd strongly suggest you look into a program called "Fotoquote/FotoBiz" by Cradoc Corp. It contains information on how to price your stock photos for various uses.

 

More importantly it also come with all of the necessary paperwork to preserve and protect your Copyright. Don't sell yourself short with that photo.

[qtluong]

At the bottom of my

<a href = "http://terragalleria.com/stock-photography.html">Stock Photography page</a> there are links to a few price tables. For unlimited rights, I would ask in the $1,000-$10,000 range, depending on the client. The image is well worth it. Note that since your picture is on photo.net, you'd have to

register it as "published", should you choose to.

[auke bonne van der weide]

how do you register the photo as published....... it has been already sometimes

[ellis_vener_photography]

That photo looks like a sure money maker for a very long time to come, so

register the copyright immediately (this costs $30.00 and takes about 10

minutes.)

 

Do they want an exclusive or non-exclusive license?

 

How will the photo be used? A poster for sale? a book? A textbook? A

calendar? tradeshow booth? a magazine? An ad/ If an ad, what kind of ad

and how many insertions and in how many publications? Consumer oriented

publications or trade publications?

 

And at what size?

 

Will it be used on billboards? If so where and how many?

 

All oft hese factors help determine the licensing fee.

Realize that this photo is unique: I see tens of thousands of photos ayear and

I've never seen anything like it. That uniqueness adds significant value .

 

A few years back my agent licensed a really good, unique skyline shot of

Houston to Diamler-Chrysler for use on 10 billboards in the Dallas Area for

six months use for $x,000, (much closer to $10K than to $1K) . The size of the

fee surprised me and taught me a lesson: you just never know how valuable

your photos might be to someone else.

 

There are other pricing guides, most notably: th pricing guide at

www.sethresnick.com and Jim Pickrell does a great job of stock photo

licensing & consulting.

[auke bonne van der weide]

I dont want to sound naive, but why would i register the copyrights. It is my picture, so I own the copyrights by law don't I?

[karl_palsson]

Actually filing for copyright gives you more power in infringement cases. Basically you get to claim way more money off them. Otherwise you are limited to statutary levels.

 

(Or so my memory tells me)

[ellis_vener_photography]

Registering your copyright gives you very serious legal clout in the form of

statutory damages in case someone infringes on your copyright. It is a legal

shield to help you protect yourself. Copyright registration is really a very

painless procedure.

[auke bonne van der weide]

So where and how do I register? Being from The Netherlands, does that matter?

[qtluong]

It is impractical to enforce copyright of unregistered images because the maximum awards do not cover the costs of litigation. For info,

see editorialphotographers.com