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July 11, 2008
Flickr to Start Photo Pimping
According to Yahoo! Tech Flickr (which is owned and operated by Yahoo) has signed a deal with Getty Images to allow users to license its photos for commercial purposes. Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty told the British Journal of Photographers that Getty will be searching through user photos to select an undisclosed number of photographers who will be signed under the standard Getty contract. Getty told the New York Times that photographers will probably earn between $150-$240 for rights-managed images and $50 for non-exclusive images. If you are interested in being chosen, start cleaning out those blurry shots of your pet and start uploading your personal best.
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I could use $50 or $150-$240. I kinda hope they pick me
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Oh Oh, I sure hope they're looking for photos of stickers, tacos, and lost pets.
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my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bidibot/
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Damn. I gave up photography over a year ago.
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I think I just got back into it.
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I don't know.. I'd have to see the exact wording of the deal, but honestly $240 to give away the rights to a photo isn't enough.
Depends on if they're asking for the rights in perpetuity or for a set time period.
My first reaction is that it's a way to cheap out and pay people who they think don't know any better way under market rate, but I could be wrong.
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I don't know any better.
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If you're interested in this, you need to check the contract and compare it to another photo agency and what they pay (like AP).
AP, for example, pays different rates for photos depending on what it is (sports shots pay more than, say, cute kittens or happy old people walking) and where it's taken, but they do pay royalties to the photographer.
Again, I'd have to see the contract they're offering but right off the bat it sounds like a bad deal for the photographer.
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You are right PeggyArcher. I was just joking. Because, in all honest modesty, who I am to even think they'd want my forced pretensions at photography, shot on film, of all things? I was getting back into it anyway.
waste 45 seconds of your time here
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Where do I sign up?
:) :)