There's no right or wrong answer to this. I run a website on Australian flora for an Association that I belong to. The site has a gallery of several hundred images (some good, some pretty ordinary....). Most of the images are mine but there are photos by others also. Like your site, all images belong to the original photographer and not the Association.
I occasionally get requests for use of images for both online and print publications. My attitude is that, if the use is for a commercial venture then a fee should be payable to the photographer. For educational and no-profit organistaions I usually agree to an acknowledgement of both the photographer and the Association (provided the photographer in question is happy with that). How much to charge - difficult to say because some "commercial" publications are more "commercial" than others. I recently asked and got $85 per image for one-off, non-exclusive use in a print publication. This was for a well known publisher. However, another smaller publisher baulked at the thought of paying anything even though I was prepared to negotiate an affordable fee. A lot of authors seem to regard images as a afterthought and don't seem to budget any cost for them - a particularly irritating attitude, I think - if they intend to make money out of a publication it seems reasonable that the photographer should receive something as well). Getting back to your issue, I think I would be happy with an acknowledgement in this case and reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs. I'd try to negotiate that each image included a link back to the original wesite so that other potential publishers know where to come (and maybe they would be prepared to pay). Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia PS - That's a really interesting gallery you have and I suspect it's a great resouce. I can't imagine that there's many others like it. Here's the link to mine: http://asgap.org.au/gallery.html Quoting Alastair Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All > some advice would be appreciated - my wife and I run a website on > soil > invertebrates http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz that we developed from > a > grant from a government agency my wife got. It is a freely > available > website which contains a lot of images of animals. We retain the > copyright to these images. Recently we were approached by the > Museum > of New Zealand who is putting together an online encyclopedia that > will take several years to build. They are currently working on a > natural history section and want to re-use some of our images for > their encyclopedia. At first it was just one or two images which > we > sent free with just a promise of acknowledgement of source etc. > They > offered to pay costs but it didn't seem worth it for just one or > two > images. However, now they want quite a few more as they move on > to > new parts of the encyclopedia. We are now wondering whether we > ought > to charge for the use of these images. Part of me thinks we > should > just keep agreeing to give them away as it is for a good cause, > but > another part says I should be recouping some costs for future > enablement. > > What do you think? Should we charge and if so how much? The > images > will be low-res web-only images and we will still own the copyright > to > them. > > Any suggestions welcome > > Alastair > > PS the front page to our website is running slow at the moment - > there > is a small bug in the counter which we keep forgetting to fix. If > you > want to skip this page and go the image gallery you can try this > link > http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/gallery.php > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Top Online CJ Programs Get your associate or bachelor criminal justice degree while you work. http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/MhtYWUjFdpo7XzJw4p0o8nbCvpCEiVO88XUFc/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
