If you needed another reminder that the business of photography is dead, here it is.
An experienced stock photographer with 10,000+ images licensed with Alamy put it bluntly: “I have 10,000+ images licensed with Alamy, so I know what I’m talking about.” His warning? Once your photograph goes through an agency, “you basically have lost any kind of rights that you had.”
Read that again. Your photo. Your copyright. Licensed through an agency. And suddenly it is quoted back to you word for word with a shrug and a “that’s your fault.”
The thumbnail on this one says it all: WHO OWNS YOUR PHOTOS?
Here is my takeaway, and it is not complicated. Beware licensing your photos. The paperwork says you still own the copyright. The reality says you have handed over control.
Your photos may never make you money in photography ever again. Sucks, doesn’t it?
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