The reply I got above seems to make a mockery of the whole system, and I'm genuinely staggered that such negotiations are allowed to take place. I submitted the image as rights managed, not royalty free, as I expect the be paid a good sum of money dependent upon usage. It seems to me that this is wholly unfair on the photographer. Now maybe I'm being very naive, but I don't remember reading anything about negotiating the price of an image in the contract when I signed up. Your image ABKB9R was sold to the customer as per the price agreement we have with the client and we charge a flat rate for the images used by the client. When we raise an invoice in these circumstances, due to the nature of the bulk image purchase and/or specific contracts often the highest print run and the largest page size are selected. We do have agreed usages/rates with some key customers and will negotiate on sales if necessary. It suddenly dawned on me that whoever bought this is getting one hell of a bargain, so I went on to the page of the image in question and, using the same criteria, used the price calculator to work out what the image would cost.īaffled and bewildered, I wrote to alamy yesterday evening challenging this sale, and I received the following reply: The image has been purchased for an unlimited print run for a period of 25 years, for editorial usage as a two page spread. No probs, thought I, until I had a look at the details of the sale under which the image was bought. The image is on sale under a rights managed license, and this particular sale of the image was for $180. The image in question is one that I've sold a number of times through alamy (in case you're interested it's this one). I've just had, what seems to me, a bit of a problem regarding an image sale that I've made through Alamy, and I'd like to get the opinions of people on this site as to what I should do next/where I stand.
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