Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >And some will charge a day rate PLUS usage if it's going to be more than > >personal type of use. > > That seems wrong. Seems like it should be one or the other. > Kind of like a > lawyer charging an hourly fee *and* taking some of the > settlement. Plumbers > get paid by the hour instead of how much water flows through the pipes > afterward. Authors get paid on "usage" by how many books are > bought rather > than how much time they spent writing. And film cameramen generally lose their copyright, but charge the client for the rental of every single piece of equipment - photographers aren't plumbers and they aren't writers - it's a different business and like all of them has it's own ways of doing business. And different sectors have their own way of working. Editorial often charges a creative fee, which is balanced against usage. but the fees are generally at the lower end of the scale. You shoot and assignment with a day rate against usage agreement. You are guaranteed your basic rate + expenses. But if the article then happens to run 10 pages + the cover (because you did an excellent job) you get the space rate added once it exceeds the agreed day rate/creative fee. It's a way of encouraging excellence and has been standard for many years. Any creative fee also depends on what the final usage is. You are selling a bundle of rights - the bigger the bundle, the higher the cost. You want one-time use in a corporate report, it will cost you x. You want use in the Report, in house magazine, mail out promos, annual calendar and a poster - it will cost you xxx. Take the photo of the New Jersey skyline for Smithsonian and you might charge say a Creative Fee of $700 + expenses for one-time print use (made up figure). Shoot the same thing for the IBM annual report and you might start at around $2000.00 . They want to buy out my Copyright - start at quadruple the standard fees. The industry and it's different sectors has it's own way of doing business, as does every industry. tim a - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html