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<blockquote data-quote="ohkphoto" data-source="post: 33902" data-attributes="member: 1573">Rick, there's nothing wrong with &quot;giving&quot; away a photo. i.e. print.&nbsp; I do it all the time.&nbsp; When I shoot a session or event, I post a download link on the site.&nbsp; A &quot;personal use&quot; license comes up, so they understand that the photo is for personal use.&nbsp; Prints have to be ordered through me because the copyright symbol is on there . . . fortunately, Walmart and Walgreen do honor that.With regard to what to charge for a commercial license,&nbsp; here's an example as a starting point:&nbsp; Click on this <a href="http://ohkphotography.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Nature/G0000UoFcqGX5EI0/I0000QEnNtL9aIfE" target="_blank">image </a>and pretend you're going to buy a license. Click on the download tab.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are several options, but for a year's use of this image, Paid advertising on a website for a company with a national market: $3090.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can play around with the different options and see immediately how the price changes.&nbsp; (Photoshelter uses &quot;fotoquote&quot; to help photographers set up pricing),&nbsp; Even when I do a wedding, every one of the photos is watermarked and I make it clear that they only get a personal license for the photos.I've had 2 copyright issues in the last month.&nbsp; I'll write about them later.&nbsp; The rant refers a lot to the stock agencies that have popped up (including Getty Images).&nbsp; The bottom line is you have to honor and value your work enough to stand up for it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ohkphoto, post: 33902, member: 1573"] Rick, there's nothing wrong with "giving" away a photo. i.e. print. I do it all the time. When I shoot a session or event, I post a download link on the site. A "personal use" license comes up, so they understand that the photo is for personal use. Prints have to be ordered through me because the copyright symbol is on there . . . fortunately, Walmart and Walgreen do honor that. With regard to what to charge for a commercial license, here's an example as a starting point: Click on this [URL="http://ohkphotography.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Nature/G0000UoFcqGX5EI0/I0000QEnNtL9aIfE"]image [/URL]and pretend you're going to buy a license. Click on the download tab. There are several options, but for a year's use of this image, [B]Paid advertising on a website for a company with a national market: $3090[/B]. You can play around with the different options and see immediately how the price changes. (Photoshelter uses "fotoquote" to help photographers set up pricing), Even when I do a wedding, every one of the photos is watermarked and I make it clear that they only get a personal license for the photos. I've had 2 copyright issues in the last month. I'll write about them later. The rant refers a lot to the stock agencies that have popped up (including Getty Images). The bottom line is you have to honor and value your work enough to stand up for it. [/QUOTE]

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