selling digital images on the internet

JM
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James Mercola
Oct 4, 2004
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hi,

i’m setting up a website for a client to sell digital photos. does anyone know of resources where I can find out about legal stuff regarding royalties, usage limitations, ownership and possibly fee structures as well?

thanks for any input..

James
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Fi Nishing
Oct 4, 2004
"James Mercola" wrote in message
hi,

i’m setting up a website for a client to sell digital photos. does anyone know of resources where I can find out about legal stuff regarding royalties, usage limitations, ownership and possibly fee structures as
well?

Why reinvent the wheel? Let your client just send his images to Alamy. Easy.
JM
James Mercola
Oct 4, 2004
"Fi Nishing" wrote in message
Why reinvent the wheel? Let your client just send his images to Alamy. Easy.

Because if we didn’t reinvent the wheel, it would be a pretty bumpy ride. Ask Fred Flintstone.

James
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bagal
Oct 4, 2004
On behalf of the great uninitiated – who is Alamy?

Arty

"Fi Nishing" wrote in message
"James Mercola" wrote in message
hi,

i’m setting up a website for a client to sell digital photos. does anyone
know of resources where I can find out about legal stuff regarding royalties, usage limitations, ownership and possibly fee structures as
well?

Why reinvent the wheel? Let your client just send his images to Alamy. Easy.

FB
Frederic Banaszak
Oct 5, 2004
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:30:07 GMT, "Artie" wrote:

On behalf of the great uninitiated – who is Alamy?

You know. "Remember the Alamy!"
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iehsmith
Oct 5, 2004
On 10/4/04 2:41 PM, James Mercola uttered:

i’m setting up a website for a client to sell digital photos. does anyone know of resources where I can find out about legal stuff regarding royalties, usage limitations, ownership and possibly fee structures as well?

I would think this is the client’s/photographer’s responsibility, including model and location releases. If the client is clueless about these things then he/she should consult an attorney to both setup agreements for usage sales and to protect himself against any liability.

Lots of great info on this site:
http://www.danheller.com/bizfaq.html

inez
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medform-norm
Oct 5, 2004
On behalf of the great uninitiated – who is Alamy?

Arty
http://www.alamy.com/

is what they mean, I suspect.

Here is a really good tip for the ‘uninitiated’:

www.google.com

there you can type in your search and if you’re lucky, you can find what you came for and lots more! It’s awesome, man, hugely retecool!
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Gadgets
Oct 9, 2004
I think you’ll find that most limitations etc should be set by the contract between owner and purchaser. Any agreement will override any ‘default’ restrictions. If you’re setting up to sell, you’ll need to get the client to agree to whatever terms you want – like ‘restricted for one publication, not to be distributed’, or ‘unlimited use’, or ‘usage to expire 2005’, or ‘must include photo credit to ….’, or ‘for news reporting only, not to be used in any advertising material’, or ‘not to be used to represent any illegal activity or product’ etc etc

Cheers, Jason (remove … to reply)
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