There are a few dollars to be made with micro stock and maybe someone can tell us a story of actually making very nice dollars but I kind of doubt it.
It is possible... They say there that he makes $25,000 a
month from stock (microstock, and regular stock agencies...most of his income is probably
not from microstock). Not bad.
A month?
I'd love to see the tax returns before I believe that one... :lmao::lmao::lmao:
Yuri Arcurs is the king of microstock right now. He is an exception for sure.
If you're wanting to make money from stock photography, look to RM rather than RF.
This:
Royalty Free - means there is nothing on the image that is copy righted [sic].
is not true.
A quick look at Wikipedia.org, yields the following information:
Royalty Free (RF) means the buyers -
Pay a one-time fee to use the image multiple times for multiple purposes (with limits).
No time limit on when the buyer can use an image.
No one can have exclusive rights of a Royalty-free image (the photographer can sell the image as many times as he or she wants).
A Royalty-free image usually has a limit to how many times the buyer can reproduce it. For example, a license might allow the buyer to print 500,000 brochures with the purchased image. The amount of copies made is called the print run. The buyer is required to pay a fee per brochure, usually 1 to 3 cents, for additional prints. Magazines with a large print run cannot use a standard Royalty-free license and therefore they either purchase images with a Rights-managed license or have in-house photographers.
Rights managed (RM) means -
The value of a license is determined by the use of the image, which is generally broken down along these lines;
- Usage: (eg. Advertising - "Above the Line", Corporate - "Below the Line" or Editorial - "News Media")
- Specific Use: (eg. Billboard, Annual Report, Newspaper article)
- Duration: (eg. 1 month, 2 months, 1 Year, 2 Years etc)
- Print Run: (eg. up to 10,000, up to 1m)
- Territory: (eg; USA, Europe, UK, Germany, or whatever combination of territories are required)
- Size: (how big is the image to be used - 1/4 page, 1/2 page, full page, or double page spread)
- Industry: (Industry type - eg. Consumer Electronics, Marine Engineering, Financial Services etc)
- Exclusivity: (Exclusive, or Non Exclusive)
The terms of the license are clearly defined and negotiated so that the purchaser receives maximum value, and is protected in their purchase by a certain level of exclusivity.
Rights-managed licenses provide assurance that an image will not be used by someone else in a conflicting manner. The agreement can include exclusivity, and usually recognises that this represents added value. Not all Rights-managed licenses are exclusive, that must be stipulated in the agreement.
A Rights-managed image usually allows a much larger print run per image than a Royalty-free license.
Editorial is a form of rights-managed license when there are no releases for the subjects. Since there are no releases the images cannot be used for advertising or to depict controversial subjects, only for news or educational purposes.
