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Overview Rights-Managed licenses allow buyers to use images for a specific purpose. For example, if you wanted to use an image for an advertisement on the back cover of a magazine with a US circulation of 500,000. At EnviroSEA, photographers can choose to offer their images for rights-managed licensing. In order to determine the correct price, you need to enter usage information. As a buyer, you can then accept that retail price, pay, and take electronic delivery, or you can choose to negotiate with the photographer. Pricing an Image In order to price a rights-managed (RM) image, you must first create a free account. This requirement ensures that the photographer is aware of who is trying to license an image, and that the buyer is a legitimate person. When you find an image that has been priced for rights-managed sales, you will select a series of parameters to generate a price. For example, category, size, duration, etc. The parameters vary by the type of usage. When the price is presented, you have a few options:  Purchase Save Price (to use later or to negotiate) Cancel If you save a price, you can access that price and/or negotiate by clicking "My PhotoShelter -> RM Negotiation" from the main navigation. Saved Prices If you are researching multiple images, saving a price is a way to retain the licensing information for an image. You can always purchase images that have saved pricing at the price indicated. Alternately, you can initiate a negotiation with the photographer. To view your Saved Prices: Click My PhotoShelter -> RM Negotiation" Click the "Saved Prices" tab. Negotiating a Price Rights-Managed sales are often negotiated, particularly when multiple images are being sold at once. However, negotiation can slow down the acquisition process -- particularly if the photographer is traveling when you try to initiate a negotiation. To view your RM Negotiations: Click My PhotoShelter -> RM Negotiation" If you are negotiating for the first time, you will be prompted to enter your contact information prior to entering the negotiation. This includes company, e-mail and phone. Click on "View Images" to enter the negotaion. You will see a screen that provides an aggregate price for all images to be negotiated. You can do one of the following: Accept the retail price from the photographer Submit a new price of what you're willing to pay Terminate the negotiation If you choose to submit new pricing, you are required to enter a price that they are willing to pay. If your negotiation contains multiple images, you will have to enter a separate price for each image. There is no limit to the number of rounds that you can go back-and-forth with a seller. We do not keep individual image pricing history, but we do log the aggregate pricing for each round in the system comments that appear to the right. The pricing that you or the seller inputs into a negotiation is valid for one month from the last offer. After that time, the negotiation will automatically close, and you will not be able to purchase the image without the photographer's review of the pricing again. Receiving Files Electronically Once you've accepted a pricing and entered your billing information, you must wait a few minutes before the files are prepared for your retrieval. You will receive an e-mail when the files are ready for pick up. You can view your downloads by: Click My PhotoShelter -> My Downloads" Each image is a separate download and is delivered as a ZIP file. The ZIP file includes: the Image XMP Sidecar with usage rights Text file with usage rights The usage rights are also embedded in the image file. The usage rights will indicate what the license allows and who the licensee is. For example: Usage rights agreed upon for this image are: United States, Advertorial.Print.Magazine, 1/2 Page, Up to 5,000 ** Licensed to Joe Smith / Joe's Design Co. ** You can download the images for up to 96 hours. After that point, you need to contact the photographer if you need to retrieve the file again. Each image needs to be downloaded individually. |