How do I price a licence for promotional use of my press photos?

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I photographed authors at a literary convention as a stringer for a small online publication. Now an agent for one of the authors wants permission to use some of those images for marketing and promotional purposes.

I haven’t licensed images for commercial/promotional use before, so I don’t know what a reasonable fee structure looks like. Are there standard rate guides or industry references for this kind of image licensing, and what factors usually affect the price?

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One of the best videos I wached is Mark Wallace and Adorama video, describing in details how much your work costs. You can watch video here.

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There usually isn’t a single universal “standard rate” for this. Licensing fees for promotional use vary a lot by market and by the details of the licence.

A useful starting point is to look for professional association rate guides in your country. For example, in Canada, CAPIC publishes suggested reproduction/licensing fees that many photographers use as a baseline. Guides like that show how pricing changes based on things such as:

  • type of use
  • circulation or audience size
  • geographic distribution
  • scope of rights granted

That’s why two similar images can be priced very differently.

So the practical answer is: find a local professional photography association’s licensing guide and use it as a benchmark, then adjust for the specific usage being requested. Even if you choose a different price, having a published industry guide helps justify your quote to the client.

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