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Where to purchase stock images with full rights?

by WillR
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I've been banging my head against the wall on this one and figured there may be someone out there who knows of a good resource.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a place where you can buy stock images where you actually purchase the FULL rights for those images... at a reasonable price.

I know there are plenty of stock photo sites that allow you to purchase them for personal use or you can buy really expensive extended licenses which allow you to use them in print runs, etc, but I am wanting to own the images outright.

There must be sites out there that exist where you deal directly with the photographers and purchase the full rights to those images... surely?!

Anyone know of any good resources?

Just to reiterate, I am not looking for extended rights or anything like that. I am wanting to own the images outright so I can then do anything I want with those images.
#full #images #purchase #rights #stock
  • Profile picture of the author PassiveIncomeTeacher
    The resell rights are a photographer's bread and butter. I think you will be hard pressed to find many that will part with all of the rights.
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  • Profile picture of the author automaton
    It seems that your solution is to go directly to the source and buy them. You can use the image stock sites which are just intermediaries, to contact freelance photographers who are willingly to give you full rights. Last time I checked those kind of sites you can access the photographers profile where you can find his website, other contact details...shouldn't be to hard to contact them.
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  • Profile picture of the author CyborgX
    You can try Getty Images, iStockphotos and Corbis Images. These are the top three I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    Give Photo Wizard a try for stock photos Royalty Free Stock Photos there permissions are very liberal.
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    • Profile picture of the author stevex
      For high quality and cheapest, shutterstock dot com is the best I found. Basically, you need to spend 250$ for a 1 month subscription.

      You can download 25 pictures a day for a month, for a total of 750 photos which works out to 33 cents a picture for full Editorial use rights. Editorial rights means you can use it in a website for regular use but you can't put it on a flyer and promote your new perfume brand or something like that.

      Also, they don't differentiate price by size. So you're 250$ is good for 750 of their largest and highest quality photos. We're talking about pictures on par with Getty and AP. So 33 cents per, compared to the 45$ per for a three month rental that other sites offer is basically a hell of deal.

      Actually, forget it. I misread your post. You want full ownership. This post may be of some use to you:

      http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/g...ownership.html
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Will,

    I owned a studio for 38 years. The photo studio that makes the images owns all rights. Some 30 years ago, during the days before digital, the stock agencies would have to send out the original transparencies to potential clients. If a client lost and image, or managed to destroy it, the price was $1500.

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the $7,000 or $8,000 range to purchase full rights today.

    As others have mentioned, use of the photo is the photographer's bread and butter. That said, here in the "digital age" there are a bizzillion amateur photographers who are selling stock cheaply. You need to find one (or more) of them. Sorry, but I don't have any idea where to look.

    Also you may find pro photographers who are willing to give up full rights for a lot less money if they are not as busy as they used to be due to the economy, and due to the bizzillian amateurs who are now calling them selves semi-pro and cutting into the market.

    Either way, full rights will be expensive, unless you are dealing with an idiot who has no idea about what it takes to run a photography business.

    :-Don
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