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When I submit images to GI, I cannot select whether it should goes under RF or RM. However, most of my accepted images are sold under RF, while others are under RM. Do you know on what basis GI categorise images into RF and RM?
Quote from: 60D on September 08, 2015, 20:21When I submit images to GI, I cannot select whether it should goes under RF or RM. However, most of my accepted images are sold under RF, while others are under RM. Do you know on what basis GI categorise images into RF and RM?I think you can only choose when you are a house contributor. Not through Moment etc.From the other images, I believe Getty is mostly putting images into RM where it's a great image but it contains some unreleased elements that would prohibit licensing as RF.Given that the majority of sales today are happening as RF, it is commercially more attractive to have images offered as RF. While there can be huge sales through RM - licenses for $10,000 and more are being reported every now and then -, those big sales are distributed amongst a mass of million images and it's more like a lottery ticket. On the other hand you are losing most of the advertising sales with RM which on average sell at higher prices than editorial uses.