opinions on this email

[poah]

to me this means cheap e.g don't want to pay for a professional shoot etc





Hi





By way of introduction, I’m from a specialist marketing firm CMA Marketing and we work for many automotive and motorsport clients, mianly in the UK.



For a new print ad design we are starting for a client, I need to get hold of some professional royalty-free images


They would all have to be action shots, on road or track. All images need to feature road cars, not competition machines.



I’ve seen that, based on your website, you may well have some shots I’d be after. Proving to be quite difficult to find any so far!



Anyway, if you could get back to me asap and we can discuss things further.

Edited by poah on Thursday 5th July 19:00

[hawkaye]

Providing the money is right, I would sell to them. They seem to have some half decent clients on their website

edited to say that "Royalty Free" does not mean they are not willing to pay for them, it just means there is no licence with the photo limiting how many times they can use the photo etc (incase you didn't know that already)..

Edited by hawkaye on Thursday 5th July 19:20

[Don]

I'm in the software industry. Building systems to order for clients. Occasionally its in our interest to buy in a "library" that does something we need to do for the system.

We would not buy a library unless it was Royalty Free. i.e. I'm happy to pay for the thing - but I want to ship what I've made out of it as many times as I like without paying any extra.

Honest way of doing business in my view. Often its hard to put processes in place to be certain of how many "royalty licences" you owe - for us hard enough that we'd rather not bother! Fair enough - I'll agree not to sell the thing on by itself...only as part of my product...but I don't want to be counting sales volumes in order to write cheques further down the line.

So. Contact the bloke. Ask how much he's willing to offer for a licence to use the image granted to his firm for any purpose they see fit other than to sell any usage rights on to a third party. That way you know they'll do what they want with your picture - but can't go selling it in place of you.

Of course - if you then see it on billboards around the country you might feel like you were cheated - but, hey, if the price was right to begin with...

[poah]

I've got no problem giving them the pictures depending on the price. not going to give any for £1 ala shutterstock though

[Don]

poah said:

I've got no problem giving them the pictures depending on the price. not going to give any for £1 ala shutterstock though

Fair play. Sell the licence to use the image for what you think it is worth. No harm in having a one off payment though...