nanaval wrote:
Hi I would be grateful for any help. I have been asked by a new training provider if I would let them put my orb pictures on their wall , ( I have some in frames) also they would like to buy digital images to print their own and I presume sell them. My query is what would be a fair price and do I retain copy write on them. As I have not been asked this before I would be very grateful for info from the people who have knowledge of this. Many thanks.
Nanaval,
You can sell your prints under several different options.
1. You sell a print for one time use. (What it cost for you to create and print + 50%)
2. You sell a print for local distribution. (What it cost for you to create, print, and deliver + 100%)
3. You sell a print with exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute. (1 above + 200%)
4. You sell the finished product for exclusive future sale and distribution. Exclusive is to mean no one else will print, or distribute your work. (What you believe you could earn from the image over a lifetime).
Once you elect any of the above, you give away any future financial rights to the image.
You can sell, or give, any digital file for a price to cover all future earning power from that image file. The new owner then has to recover his costs in acquiring your work product.
Do not ever give away all exclusive rights to your work, not even personal marketing rights, or promotional rights. You can sell the rights to exclusively reproduce and sell your work, but it is imperative that you keep the rights to market yourself.
If the buyer cannot agree to the above, thank them for their interest, and walk away. In a day or so offer them a slightly different option. You sell a digital print for 1 above + 30%, with the provision the print owner display the product within their domain with a credit line listing you as the owner of the image).
Michael G