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Which do you use?

Royalty-Free
- 0 (0%)
Rights-Managed
- 3 (100%)
Both
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mikeguil

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Rights-Managed or Royalty Free?
« on: December 20, 2008, 09:36:57 pm »

I'm using PhotoShelter to host my online stock images/sales.  They offer a few different pricing options, but the two main ones are Royalty-Free or Rights-Managed.  It uses fotoquote for the R-M pricing and you can tweak the prices by a percentage factor to get the pricing you want, and the R-F pricing is totally set by yourself, with pricing for 500px, 1500px, 2500px and full-sized images.

You can select one pricing or the other for a particular image - but not both.  So, why would you choose one over the other?  Have agencies like iStock and such basically killed the Rights-Managed pricing model for stock images?  Is it a question of getting at least 'something' for an image rather than having it passed over because you're using R-M pricing?

I'd be interested in learning what you guys are using, and especially why you're using it.  And, if you're using both, how?
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Alexandre Buisse

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Rights-Managed or Royalty Free?
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2008, 04:13:48 am »

Rights managed. I want to keep control of how my image is used, and be paid for what it's worth. Wasn't there a cover of Time magazine which came from shutterstock or one such microstock site, and the guy had been paid 2$ for it?

The following read may also be of interest to you: http://thesnappysnapper.blogspot.com/2008/...hotography.html
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