A fairer way to license stock photos

A fairer way to license stock photos

Silhouette of Eastern Great Egret standing on a pipe with a background of golden water from late afternoon light. For a blog post on outback photography.au about a fairer way to license stock photos 

The Winter break is our time to reflect and make decisions about our business as we head into the New Year. However, his year was slightly different as we had much stuff going on. So planning for our stock photo and video business was placed on the back burner.

It is now time to look at our stock imagery business. I am not optimistic that we will continue as we have in the past. The catalyst was NYE when we sold 14 royalty-free images through one of our agencies. It wasn’t so much a sale as a bloody insult. 

Seriously, a deal that returns 84 cents to the photographer on the sale of fourteen images is a joke. Oh, that wasn’t 84 cents each, but instead, that was the total sale for worldwide royalty-free use in perpetuity.

The 14 licenses above, I suspect, will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. As a result, we will add more content to our stock photo archive. Spend more time promoting our library than supplying large libraries that pay a 1-2% royalty to the photographer.

If we market our stock images of Australia that way, the buyer gets licensing at lower prices. And we get a much larger cut of the fee. So life should be better for all. Our royalty-free and editorial images are found at Excitations Stock Photos of Australia.

Licensing stock photos fairly is crucial for the growth and sustainability of the stock photography industry. The industry can attract and retain talented creators by ensuring photographers are fairly compensated for their work. Doing this will produce more high-quality images for businesses and individuals to license.

Next time you need to license stock photos, please consider licensing directly from the creators. Help everyone get fair remuneration for their hard work.

Excitations Stock Archive with cookies

Excitations Stock Archive with cookies

Amusing photo of Pelicans for a blog post about excitations stock archive with cookies

Due to regulatory changes in Europe, the Excitations Stock Archive with cookies  now requires you to Opt-in or Opt-out of accepting cookies.

I know, just another thing to do. We don’t use cookies to track browsing history; however, our hosting server requires cookies.

We have also dropped Google Analytics. Because Google records IP addresses and stores the information, keeping users’ private information is now outlawed in the European Union.

We are currently using Microanaylitics, which conforms to European requirements.

We don’t use analytics for the record, but our server requires analytics.

Data Security

While I’m waffling on about tracking and personal data, we don’t store anything directly on our websites. Instead, our Stock site collects email addresses when you order a license. Which we only use in case of a problem with delivery. We do not directly market to you using any collected data.

As for payment details, all your information is managed by PayPal and Square, which means we never see your financial information.

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