Photo Licensing Questions

Back story: I shot and retouched a few photos for a very good musician friend of mine free of charge. I styled the shoot, and did her hair + makeup.  Those photos led her to a very sweet gig working overseas, making thousands of dollars, with free room and board for several...

A casino wants to buy into the shoot I'm doing for an architect.  They want perpetual use across all media (except billboards).  I was thinking about charging them 5-10x my creative fee of the client.  Any advice would be appreciated. 

I have been asked by my county's convention and visitor bureau to license some of my photos and to shoot more.  They will use them in their publications that go to planners, hotels, travel agencies, etc etc.  They say the circulation is around 30K for print and use on their...

I photographed an author/public figure for an organization for which he acts as a consultant. He is now asking to buy the rights to use one of the images for his personal publicity and promotion. The agreement he would like is unlimited with the exception of advertising.

Hello, I need a ballpark figure for what to charge a client who breached our licensing agreement by using three of my images on the internet.  One of the images in on 5 pages, and is quite prominent, the other two are on two pages each.  They wil be up for approximately two...

I am a Dutch photographer and I just came across one of my photos on various sites in the USA, like Artist Direct and guitarnewsdaily.com, revelinnewyork.com, Japan, Brasil and some other European countries. It was published with a news item about a particular artist.  I have...

Over the years, I have done quite a bit of work for a Native American "Nation," who owns/operates many hotels, golf courses and a casino. Their properties are all world class. I have learned through legal advice that usage rights, or the abuse of, will not stand up in the...

I am providing some photos for our elementary school yearbook and would like to include a usage license. I am not charging a fee. They can not afford to buy photos for the yearbook and typically get photos submitted by parents and staff. Size is printable JPEGs I will assume....

The single image will be used in a print mag which seems to have a circulation of 166000, at 1/8page, one country only. He also want to use it on TV, to appear onscreen for maybe only a couple of seconds (not in a commercial as such), but in a commercial sense. It would be in a...

Recently, I was contacted by a local marketing agency and asked to photograph a commercial event for an energy drink company.  The contract (Statement of Work) stated quite simply the following:  What I was required to shoot How long I was required to shoot for That I would...