Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:23 PM 24/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >Most commercial shoots, at least all the ones I have done, the clients/reps >require me to sign over any and all rights to exclusive use of the 'work' >to them. I have NO problem with that, since I am getting paid quite well >to do so. I do retain the rights to use the 'work' for my own >promotion/portfolio etc. use (even, in some cases, photo 'contests')...but >I can not sell the images, nor do they have to ask me to use them. Not knowing the nature of the subjects you are shooting for your clients I'll go out on a limb and say that you are giving away your retirement fund. Twenty years into this business and I have reached the point where I make as much from sales and licensing of my stock photo library as I do on assignment work during a year. You won't be able to say the same because you gave away the copyright to your photos. In ten years time (at age 50) I hope to make 80 percent of my income from my stock library. I am still selling photos of people, places, events that I shot 10 and 15 years ago. Every year they make me money.... .... do you see what I'm getting at? A stock photo library is a photographer's retirement fund. Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland locke@straylight.ca http://www.straylight.ca/locke - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Touched By Fire: doctors without borders in a third world crisis. http://www.straylight.ca/touchedbyfire.htm ISBN#0-7710-5305-3 McClelland & Stewart