Getty Images?

[Longshots]

Yes John - very well spotted Funnily enough, this is related, its because they were using stock, that I approached Yellow with the suggestion that they commission their own photographer. Best cold call I ever made, as I got an amazing commission to do most of the Yellow Pages "Get About Guides" in the front of all their directories. This removed their issue of all their expensive admin work, and costs paid toto all of the different stock libraries they had been using.

Funnily enough, it was because of that work with Yellow Pages, that gave me the idea for my business name of Longshots

Good to hear that some people have made something out of stock. I'll admit to being cynical after being ripped off by the agency that sold my work, but never passed on the income.

[chamellieon]

I've found that agencies such as Getty are usually quite aggressive with their fine print. read it well my friend, read it well..

[Xenedis]

Getty can access all flickr for stock now too so i understand

It's worth noting that Flickr users can opt out of having their images selected by Getty.

I've found that agencies such as Getty are usually quite aggressive with their fine print. read it well my friend, read it well..

I've found that any organisation which wants images (especially for little or no cost) can be pretty damned demanding as far as terms and conditions. More or less "we will give you little-to-nothing, but expect to do what we want, when we want, where we want, and for however long we want".

I'm not commenting specifically on Getty, as I'm unfamiliar with its T&Cs.

However, as usual when it comes to providing images to some other organisation, my advice is to read the find print and decline if the T&Cs result in "irreconcilable differences".

[BBJ]

I have had shots on Getty and was put on via friend and made money out of them but this takes time so don't expect to get your bucks fast as it took months to get some $ out of them after the usage etc.. Do your reading like everyone has said.

[Sheila Smart]

There are three major minuses regarding submitting work to Getty. They have an extraordinarily high commission rate (70 % for RM and 80% for RF), they are image exclusive which means that you cannot sell the images that you upload to Getty on any other stock library and even your own website and thirdly, the photographer has no choice with regards to rights managed or royalty free. That said, I have only five images on Getty (via their deal with Flickr) and they sold one image, twice, within one month of the upload. The first sale was US$770 (commercial) and the second $165.00 (editorial). I am also a member of Alamy (40% commission), Gekko (50%), OzImages (annual subscription), OzStock (50%) and agefotostock but I still sell more through my own website (0%!) than I do all my stock libraries combined. Getty requires their photographers to sign a two year contract. On Flickr, Getty is opening up to all Flickr photographers (rather than actually getting selected by Getty) asking them to place a "Request a Licence" under their images on Flickr. I am still in two minds about this as the same commission deal applies when all Getty is doing is acting as a conduit for the buyers. I assume that the client is directed to Flickr, sees an image that they would like to license, clicks on the Request a Licence, Getty then contacts the photographer and asks if they can license the image. At that point, I guess the photographer has leverage regarding the model, ie RF or RM and in my case, I would also negotiate a price! If the photographer agrees, he/she then uploads high res to Getty and it becomes part of the Getty collection. Flickr does not allow photographers to "commercialise" their images but its OK for Getty to do so. Flickr has never felt the need to justify this anomaly!

Sheila

[Dylan & Marianne]

hmm I was just sent an email saying they wanted 50 of my images from flickr - after reading this , I think I'll politely ignore!

[Xenedis]

hmm I was just sent an email saying they wanted 50 of my images from flickr - after reading this , I think I'll politely ignore!

In your account settings you can disable the option to be asked.