Licensing photos for web use

[RichNY]

I just received a phone call from a friend who is working as a web designer. Her client is a rider who purchased four photos from a photographer who did some freelance work at a local hunt club.

Now that he's looking to use the images of his riding on a new small for profit web site the photographer is looking for $100/photo useage rights. http://www.shannonbrinkman.net/horsesDetail.php?id=10

Is this a reasonable fee considering that he has already purchased prints of these images and the useage cost is the same as the photographer's fee for a 16x20 print?

Thanks in advance for some guidance I can relay.

[cwphoto]

Sounds fair to me without knowing too much of the detail.

I usually stipulate:

Region
Media
Time-frame
Useage


Say, on such-and-such website, for such-and-such period (region is hard to control).

[RichNY]

CW- Doesn't $100/shot seem like a lot of money for someone who just stood there and pressed a shutter button 4 times?;) Now I understand how how you've ended up with so much white glass.

I'd be interested in hearing what type of prices people in the US have been charging for this type of use for small web sites.

[cwphoto]

CW- Doesn't $100/shot seem like a lot of money for someone who just stood there and pressed a shutter button 4 times?;) Now I understand how how you've ended up with so much white glass.

Yes. :cool: :D

Like anything it's a negotiation depending on the client's position, your hunger for the work etc.

I've worked sixteen hours at a Macedonian wedding where all I have been paid is AUD400 (stringing for another guy). But there are times when I do these RV shoots and I return over AUD8k for five days work (and they are getting a bargain I reckon too).

Horses for courses - I usually charge as much as I can until my clients start to squeal. :o

[adam75south]

well they probably should have worked that out before the pictures were taken. i'm willing to bet that if you leave his copyright info on each photo or make them a link to him, then he can get them cheaper.

[TNB]

Is this a reasonable fee considering that he has already purchased prints of these images and the useage cost is the same as the photographer's fee for a 16x20 print?

Thanks in advance for some guidance I can relay.
It's my understanding that purchasing a "print" is NOT the same as purchasing the "copyright" to the print. Then sometimes there is the gray area between commercial and informationial....