Calculatings Fees & Damages For Stolen Images

Posted on 3/8/2018 by Jonathan Appleby | Printable Version | Comments (2)

Trying to decide how much you should charge for your image can be a bit like asking “how long’s a piece of string?” At Copytrack we help photographers get paid for uses of their work. When using us a photographer receives around 360 EURO ($443) for each one of their images successfully licensed.

Get the Full Article (2 Credits)

Have an Account?

Access to this site is an exclusive benefit for you. Enter your username and password in the form above. If you don't remember your password you can reset it at any time.

Keep me logged in

Forgot your password?

New to Selling Stock?

Selling Stock is an on-line newsletter that reports on developing trends in the stock photo industry. It is updated at least twice a month. On-line subscribers receive e-mail notification whenever new stories are posted. Archives containing stories going back to late 1995 are fully available to subscribers.

Buy Credits

Copyright © 2018 Jonathan Appleby. The above article may not be copied, reproduced, excerpted or distributed in any manner without written permission from the author. All requests should be submitted to Selling Stock at 10319 Westlake Drive, Suite 162, Bethesda, MD 20817, phone 301-461-7627, e-mail: wvz@fpcubgbf.pbz

Comments

William Warren Posted Mar 8, 2018
I fail to see how the 'portal' works. Do they maintain giant computers, searching for possible infringements, of subscriber photographers? How does that work? Who's paying for all the service?

Peter Chigmaroff Posted Mar 10, 2018
I'm not sure how many of these companies there are now. I think quite few. I do like it that technology has become efficient enough that we can track image use on the web with relative ease. We were approached by a different company offering similar services and who did a test scan on 10,000 of our images. I'm not sure how many uses it missed but it certainly hit on a lot. As this article addresses, the main point I think to consider, is how much to make the retroactive license offer for. It can't be less than the sticker price on the website or it wouldn't make sense for a company to actually buy legally if the only down side was paying less and only if after you get caught. So lets say you have a sticker price of X, what would people ask an infringing party for to compensate them if they didn't have to do any real work and that party would just pay them now. Would it be 2X, 5X ????

Peter Chigmaroff
Overflightstock

Post Comment