Definition
The Stock Photography is nothing but the professionally taken photos of abstract, Human, Nature ,Life, Events that are present for selling on royalty free basis and that can be used and reused .
Types of Stock Photo Licences
There are 4 types of license in stock photos- Royalty Free Photo, Free Stock Photo, Right-Managed & Extended Licence.
Royalty Free Photos(RF) ,It’s a type of license used by stock photography agencies to sell stock images. The image licensing means someone to work with the stock photos in a certain way, not the property of the photo, ownership will still be with the photographer itself who captured it. He holds the copyright. Royal Free Photos are those for which no extra fee for royalty is applicable only the price of licence is stipulated & multiple unrestricted free uses are allowed on the buyers for endless time.It’s the most popular stock photo licence category. To get best quality of RF images few best stock photo websites are
- Shutterstock
- Getty Image
- iStock
Free Stock Photos is called as Public Domain(PD) is that category of photos is free to use without purchasing a license & can be used for any reasons anywhere.These are no copyright images. In 3 conditions a photo can be Public Domain (PD) photo.Firstly when an artist or photographer use the CCO( Creative Common Zero) licence to free the copyright from the output.Secondly, when a copyright might be expired.Or, thirdly, the matter is not actually copyrightable.
Few websites are widely popular for free domain stockphotos –
- Wikimedia Commons
- Flickr Commons
- Public Domain Pictures
Rights-Managed(RM) ,is also called as Licensed Image in stock photography industry refers to a copyright license which, if purchased by a user , allows the one time use of the photo as specified by the license.in stock photography industry refers to a copyright license which, RM license is customized to the specific usage needs.RM controls the use for all the licenses they’ve sold to an image. This is much more expensive,than other category of licences. An exclusive use RM licenses allow to protect from brand dilution and add value to the product. Increases the profitability.
In the pick of the popularity the Stockphoto agency which is dealing with RM licences is Getty Images.
Extended Licence, is simple royalty free licence with extra flexibility. It may include many opportunities. The cost of an extended license will be significantly higher than the Royalty free licence,but it gives the buyer to use the product or image for unlimited number of print free right or transferable authority of the licence to other buyer by re-selling under only this category of licencing.
