Quote Originally Posted by Rodger


Quote Originally Posted by peety3
But, rather than letting them use the pictures in a for-profit venture at your loss, give yourself an option to re-license those shots for an additional fee if they should ever want to use them commercially.

I'm not too worried about this, but to clear things up for my sake: they would have to pay me a set price if they ever wanted to sell the images for their own profit? (I'm good friends with all of my "clients" so far, so again, I'm not too worried about that ).


They aren't licensed to use those images for commercial use. If they should ever want to use the images commercially, you get to negotiate the rate for that commercial use. If I were you, I'd negotiate a price based on the particular use/terms they were seeking, but still maintain copyright on the images and have the right to negotiate another price on a future commercial use.


In general, my advice is "don't give up your rights (to future revenues)". I was once asked for images for a fire equipment case study. They'd pay $60-75 per image chosen, but they wanted copyright and exclusivity for perhaps a year. I said no; I saw little value in selling it again so soon, but didn't want to lose that ability.