Flickr/Getty

[BenjC]

Hi all,

I just wanted to see if anyone else is partaking in the Getty scheme through flickr.

I now have a few images on sale with them, but it does seem a tad restrictive in that the images cannot be used by any other stock agencies and are tied in for 3 years.

That said hearing about some of the fees being earned for only one or two sales it seems to pay off going with Getty exclusively.

I suppose my reasoning behind going for it is that I have a pile of images sitting on flickr - some of which I have previously submitted to shutterstock and rejected - that are doing nothing, so for the sake of forsaking control of the image rights for 3 years I haven't lost anything and may make some pin money in the process.

Do any of you guys have any thoughts on the scheme?

[_dobbo_]

Presumably you are uploading full size images to flickr?

Personally I only upload tiddly web sized images, so would be quite unlikely to make any kind of sale of a 700px wide photo.

[BenjC]

_dobbo_ said:

Presumably you are uploading full size images to flickr?

Personally I only upload tiddly web sized images, so would be quite unlikely to make any kind of sale of a 700px wide photo.

The system isn't directly linked to Flickr - once Getty have initially approved your image they invite you to upload the largest size possible. The smallest image accepted is 3MP.

[Scott330ci]

A link would be good?

[JohnS]

http://www.flickr.com/help/gettyimages/