How to sell copyright of my photos?

jchin · January 6, 2007

I have just been asked in an e-mail to provide the copyright for an image that I took.

They want to use it on their website as well as in an advertisement. Approximate number of printed advertisements is 1700 according to the e-mail.

I've never sold any copyrights as such before. What should I charge?
I am assuming they want the large digital image (8mpixels).

I had SmugMug watermark the image just now.

This is a link about the guy who emailed me:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/994/896
and here is the link to his company:
http://www.mp-objects.com/

Please give advise. Thanks.

ivar · January 6, 2007

I am no pro and know nothing about selling images really, but I don't think I would ever want to sell the copyright to an image. I would sell the permission to use an image for an X amount of time and/or X amount of publications or something like that.

I think discussions on this have been here before, try searching (see top of this page).

kammerman · January 6, 2007

Check out this discussion:

http://www.danheller.com/biz-sales.html

You'll want to license your image, not sell the copyright.

Here are some sample prices:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030810030531/danheller.com/license.html

Good luck!

Lisa

How to sell copyright of my photos?

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