Hello.
I have recently taken some photos that I have been told are good enough for publication, but I have no idea where to start. Is there a photo bank somewhere that publishers go through or do I have to find an agency to sign up to ??
Any help in the matter will be greatly apreciated. Thanks.
Paul
Paul,
There are numerous large and small photo agencies, which will accept images for their different categories, you should get a usage fee, and it will not be a large amount of money. The larger libraries will take over your copyright so beware, but you get better fees.
If you’re selling to a third party for publication again your copyright will become an issue, you should make it clear from the start your terms of contract. Usage, credits and sole ownership will become important.
If your happy just to see your stuff in print, then none of the above applies, but, if you give any written carte-blanc consent to any party to use your images, you have no come back at them for miss-use.
[quote=pe'rigin;988652]Paul,
There are numerous large and small photo agencies, which will accept images for their different categories, you should get a usage fee, and it will not be a large amount of money. The larger libraries will take over your copyright so beware, but you get better fees.
If you’re selling to a third party for publication again your copyright will become an issue, you should make it clear from the start your terms of contract. Usage, credits and sole ownership will become important.
If your happy just to see your stuff in print, then none of the above applies, but, if you give any written carte-blanc consent to any party to use your images, you have no come back at them for miss-use.[/quote]
Please note, copyright should not be an issue with most professional and legitimate photo agencies and publishers and will not be taken from you, all copyright rights belong to the photographer and should never be given away. If the place where you are hoping to use your photo's asks for your copyright, tell them to get stuffed and go elswhere. Having said that, some of the photo storage and presentation web pages such as Flckr are being ripped off by unscrupulous companies stealing images for advertising etc, they don't care about copyright even though it usually states somewhere in the FAQS that copyright belongs to the photographer! Beware where you upload your prize pictures or be prepared to be ripped off!!! Another recent trend is stealing part of a photo to add to a growing market where composite images are made from various sections of different photos. These sections could be a tree, a cloud formation, a river etc, etc. The owners of the photographs are not even aware that their original images have been plundered, could you tell if the photo you were looking at contained a little piece of one of your photo's?
nirofo.