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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: melis82 on October 22, 2015, 07:13

Title: Selling resale rights
Post by: melis82 on October 22, 2015, 07:13

Hi, I have been contacted by a new microstock agency for selling resale rights of a large batch of my images already online on major stock sites. Is this legally correct? I am not sure what to do.

Title: Re: Selling resale rights
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on October 22, 2015, 09:07

Do you want to exit the stock business? If so, this might be a deal you'd consider as a way to dump your portfolio and make a little money.

If you plan to keep selling, then why would you let other people compete with you with your own images? That's what you'd be doing if you sold resale rights to your images to some agency.

Title: Re: Selling resale rights
Post by: sweetgirll on October 22, 2015, 09:53

If you were approached, that means your images or illustrations must be really great...you caught their attention.

Resale rights, do you know if these are these perpetual rights, once you deal with them, the image is theirs forever to distribute?
If you need someday to remove a single image, will you be able to?

Another thing to look at:
What does their Royalty Free License Agreement to the buyer says? Do you know??? Check that out and see what limitations they put on the buyer...Or they let the buyer do whatever they wan t-- such as --can the buyer use on logos, print on demand sites, stuff for resale, templates for resale, is there a limit print run, do they limit the image on "sensitive subjects' and so on? 
I take this is a "one time" payment for the rights you give?

Let us know...

Quote from: melis82 on October 22, 2015, 07:13

Hi, I have been contacted by a new microstock agency for selling resale rights of a large batch of my images already online on major stock sites. Is this legally correct? I am not sure what to do.

Title: Re: Selling resale rights
Post by: melis82 on October 22, 2015, 10:36

Thanks for your tips, I will definitely consider these issues. I do not want to exit stock, they want to buy about 3000 of my images, the contract says I would keep the copyright for the images and sell them on all the sites where they are uploaded now. But I wonder if selling the resale rights would affect my sales. I will check their RF License Agreement. By the way, it is Graphicstock.com