The End Of RM

Posted on 3/11/2019 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

Getty Images personnel are telling some stock agency image suppliers that in 3 to 5 years there will be no more Rights Managed licensing. Everything will be RF. Currently, only 21% of the images in Getty’s Creative collection are RM. That is down from 55% in 2007, the last time Getty supplied detailed figures on gross sales of the various collections. Getty is also putting pressure on individual photographers to switch their RM images to RF.

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Anne Rippy Posted Mar 16, 2019
Of course Getty is making more revenue with RF than RM, not only due to RF being the default search but Getty pays a lower % to the photographer for RF sales thus receiving a higher % of the sales. That's the primary reason I've submitted most of my images as RM. It just gripes me no end for them to promote RF at the expense of photographers.

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