Licensing images for use on the internet (pricing related)

[FreeStar Houston]

A customer has asked for a license to post my images on myspace/facebook (possibly up to 100 or more images). The existing license allows for printing of images only.

Do any of you have suggestions or guidance on pricing for such use?

My instinct tells me the the license agreement should include the following:

- sites the images can be posted on
- resolution of the images
- watermark must remain visible
- copyright must be acknowledged

Anything I am missing?

[Charles Putnam]

A program I use to come up with a license is Blinkbid. It will help develop a written agreement that licenses your images for specific terms. They may not go for the watermark, especially if they're being used for advertising.

As to the cost, there's a site called Stock Photo Price Calculator (http://photographersindex.com/stockprice.htm). It can help in giving you a WAG as to what to charge. example - assuming that the images are used for advertising (I chose magazine as the medium), 1/4 page, with 10,000 or less distribution (since it's tough to determine how many actual hits the site may get based on the images), the price PER image is between $275 and $600, with a medium range of $437.50.

They'd probably hurl at that price per image, but hopefully that kind if gives you a starting point.

[FreeStar Houston]

I checked that link earlier, and it doesn't give any options for internet use. I've seen some photographers do an annual license fee of $12-25 per image depending on resolution, but that was for online catalog use. This is personal use with distribution (i.e. views) that is not measurable.

One advantage is that I can disable right-click capability. :)

[icephoto]

Originally Posted by FreeStar Houston

One advantage is that I can disable right-click capability. :)

Not much of an advantage, really. A semi-smart person can get around right click disable with 3 keystrokes or a keystroke and a mouse click in the application of their choice.

As to pricing...I wouldn't know where to begin to come up with a meaningful solution that both of you would be happy with. I'd say some percentage of the current licensing agreement that you have for print and go from there.

And size will have to play heavily into those negotiations as it directly reflects what you could lose in future business if those images got out in the wild at too high of a size.

Warm regards -j