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When you say "sales for the ones they appropriated completely dried up"

...As for the Adobe $5 per 1 year offer, what exactly is that about? ...Does Adobe have another licensing deal going where they offer you a flat $5 per image to sell that image for 1 year?

1. The images Getty took and gave away some years ago stopped selling on other sites, don't know if that was just my experience.

2. Adobe offered $5 per image to let them add it to their free collection for one year. They let you choose which to offer from a selection. Not my cup of tea, but they did it in a much more contributor friendly way, and for more money.

Interesting! When I did my estimations I only compared the one time yield to what those images were earning me on iStock, extrapolated for the next decades. Unsurprisingly, since iStock often pays just a few cents per sale, the one time payment came out ahead in this calculation. However, if like you say sales of those images on other platforms die down as a consequence, this would look very different.

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Thanks for your answer, I definitely agree that Getty comes into it with a take it or leave it attitude that left a bad taste. Also I have long been unhappy with the pathetic money I have been making on iStock when compared to shutterstock or adobe so this might be the right motivation to remove my portfolio all together from iStock.

A couple more questions about what you wrote. When you say "sales for the ones they appropriated completely dried up" you are talking about the sales of that particular image on other platforms such as shutterstock etc. dried up? On Getty the sales would obviously dry up because they wouldn't need to report sales to you anymore since they have the perpetual license right? As for the Adobe $5 per 1 year offer, what exactly is that about? So far I have uploaded my portfolio on Adobe Stock and make a couple hundred $ every month but everything I make is based on how many pictures I sell. Does Adobe have another licensing deal going where they offer you a flat $5 per image to sell that image for 1 year?

Thanks for your help.

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Getty got in touch with me asking to buy non-exclusive perpetual licenses for over 1000 of my photos at a high single digit USD price per photo. This would mean that I am allowed to keep selling these photos through other channels, however Getty is allowed to sell the photos through all their websites for eternity without ever having to pay me for it again.

Through a bit of back and forth, I was able to almost double their initial offer per asset. They always raise their offer by just a dollar or two at a time and I feel like they are still trying to low ball me, however when I don't respond to an email within a couple of days they get in touch to remind me of the offer that's on the table so they are definitely keen to seal the deal. My main problem is that I have absolutely no idea what a realistic price for a non-exclusive perpetual license would be, $15, $25, $50 per asset, I just don't know.

Hence, my question to you: Does anybody have prior experience with this sort of license and would be willing to share a ballpark figure of what you were able to negotiate?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: why can't I start a new thread?
« on: September 06, 2022, 03:31 »
I was looking for this information, thanks!

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