using stock photos
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- CX
If you use stock photos for your clients:
Do they pick out new ones for each project and add them into the budget (buying them from the company)?
Or do you have a large collection yourself that you've bought and just use them in your clients sites?
Also, is it legal to buy stock photos for yourself/company and use them in other peoples projects?
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- ********0
depends on how you agree to do the work for them. If they say to you we are going to give you a LUMP sum and then you do what we want then no. If they say well make a specific detailed budget in terms of what you are going to spend money on then I would assume yes. You can always do shareware type stuff, you upload then download or purchase stuff at http://www.istockphoto.com or get some kind of CD-ROM for it.
- ********0
make sure this is in the contact bro :)
- okaybro0
be careful with what you buy, in regards to stock photo. You aren't always buying unlimited use of the image. Stock photoraphy breaks down into two camps, royalty free and paid royalties. The quality of the the images is usually far superior for paid royalty photos. Paid royalty photos mean you buy the rights to use that image for a certain amount of time and in specific media (eg if you buy an image for a local ad campaign that is running for one year it won't be as expensive as you buying the image for a national campaign and the website) Oh and the paid royalties part means that the photographer gets paid when you buy the rights to use that image.
Royalty free means the photographer sold the image outright to the stockhouse and won't get royalties whenever the image's rights are sold for use. Most of these images that you find on a cd you can use however and whenever you please, but make sure of that when you buy them. I've heard of agencies and designers getting sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars for illegal use.
- CX0
Thanks, so if you have a royalty free image CD you can use it in any clients projects? Can you make the client pay you for using the images since you bought the CD for other peoples use anyway?
- unknown0
that would be quite unusual - kinda like charging them for the software you've bought to run your business
- CX0
Yeah but in a sense you are buying these images only to use in other peoples projects shouldnt you get some compensation?
- CX0
How do most of you get your photos? Stock? Take them yourself? Supplied by the client?