Changing World Of RM

Posted on 6/23/2016 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

Photographers choose to sell their work as RM for three reasons: (1) They believe that everything they produce should only be licensed for prices higher than those charged for RF, (2) They dream that one, or a few, of their images will eventually be licensed for an extremely broad, major use. Customer who make such uses are willing to pay multi-thousand-dollar prices for exclusive rights to such images, and (3) Such high value sales can only happen if images are always licensed based on use. There are several fallacies to these arguments.

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Anne Rippy Posted Jun 24, 2016
Don Klumpp and I continued to submit images as RM because it seems infringement of these images are more likely to be discovered by PicScout than RF where the end user is often unknown, and payments to us for these RM infringements are generally the largest sales we have, more in line with historical sales amounts. In regard to Getty, it has always seemed unfair that they collect a larger percentage on RF sales than RM, making us additionally reluctant to submit our images as RF when submitting to Getty. Anne Rippy

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