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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: beau_nash on October 04, 2012, 04:56

Title: Extended licences - implications
Post by: beau_nash on October 04, 2012, 04:56

(Or "licenses", if you prefer).

If an image is sold with an extended licence, I get that it is disabled from further sales on the stocksite that sold it and that you have to purge the image from other stocksites where it is in your port ASAP.

But what about a stocksite that requires notice to delete a file?

Or have I got this completely wrong? It has been known...

Title: Re: Extended licences - implications
Post by: Microbius on October 04, 2012, 05:01

Yup, totally wrong. EL sales do not mean you have to take the image down. Just that the buyer gets broader usage terms, like a bigger print run for example. You can normally keep selling the image anywhere you like.

Title: Re: Extended licences - implications
Post by: heywoody on October 04, 2012, 05:02

You have it completely wrong  ;D

ELs just extend the uses to which your image can be put.  Selling the rights is a different story.

Title: Re: Extended licences - implications
Post by: beau_nash on October 04, 2012, 05:11

Thanks. I thought I might have.

I was confused by the DT selling rights option; but I now realise that this is a sale of rights, not a sale of a licence.

Better get clicking those option boxes (again).

Title: Re: Extended licences - implications
Post by: Microbius on October 04, 2012, 05:44

Yeah DT's sell the rights thing is confusing, both for us and for buyers.

Title: Re: Extended licences - implications
Post by: beau_nash on October 04, 2012, 05:57

Quote from: Microbius on October 04, 2012, 05:44

Yeah DT's sell the rights thing is confusing, both for us and for buyers.

Yeah. And if you break their T&Cs on the rights sale thingy, they promise to send out an assassination squad (paraphrased).