List Prices Mean Nothing

Posted on 7/5/2020 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (2)

What’s an image worth? Owen Franken sent me his image (shown below) of sliced duck in a Paris restaurant as it appears on the Getty Images website. The list price on Gettyimages.com for a large file is $475 Euros. If all the customer needs is a very small file, only suitable for online use, the price is only 50 Euros. Getty licensed this image to a customer in Canada for $0.14 and the photographer received $0.03 for his work. The photographer’s royalty share of the gross sale price is 20% so actually the photographer was only entitled to $0.028, but in a moment of generosity Getty rounded the payment to the next highest cent.

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Tibor Bognar Posted Jul 11, 2020
A typical and representative Getty experience. Many contributors will tell you that most of their sales are like this.

Jim L. Olive Posted Jul 11, 2020
Pathetic is the 1st word that comes to mind when reading this post. I understand the world is awash in stock photos because the bar is so low on submissions, however, there should be a minimum amount established per categorical use. Right now it appears to me that the buyers are dictating prices and that needs to turn around to photographer's getting paid a reasonable rate.

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