Attention Photographers! I need information about photo licensing please!?

Question:I have been asked by a company to use one of my photos in their brochure and website as part of their logo. I don't know what steps to take from here. Any information or help about cost and procedure would be most appreciated!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have been asked by a company to use one of my photos in their brochure and website as part of their logo. I don't know what steps to take from here. Any information or help about cost and procedure would be most appreciated!

ASMP has this handy information about licensing:
http://www.asmp.org/commerce/legal/licen...

And also this handy listserv, ASMP Pro Advice:
http://www.asmp.org/community/proadvice....

Uncle Sam dislikes discussing pricing, so the best advice I can give there is to go to Photoshelter and pretend you want to buy an image for the same purposes the company wants to buy yours. Their pricing system uses industry standard numbers.

Go to shutterbug.com and do a Search for: "Business Trends: Legal & Business Practices For Digital Photography" by Maria Piscopo.

You'll find contacts that will help guide you in pricing and licensing.

Legally you cannot use a photo you find on the web with out the photographer's permission.

Stock photography websites contain thousands of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time, effort and money. Typically publishers can either purchase exclusive rights to a single image or they can purchase a subscription of sorts. The subscriptions allow publishers to download a limited number of photos over a specified period of time.

Stock photo websites allow webmasters, marketers and publishers to locate pictures for their marketing and promotional materials without the hassle of organizing a photo shoot. With copyright laws businesses must be very careful in using unlicensed photos.

There are also risks to using "free" photographs. Many of the free websites contain collaborative works from multiple photographers and artists. While the websites attempt to monitor the images in their collections in violation of copyright laws, there are no guarantees. If you opt to use photographs or images from a free portal, it is important to keep this in mind.

Here is where you can find some inexpensive stock photo directories perhaps you can get some ideas from their pricing schemes:

http://www.small-business-software.net/s...

Goodluck