I’ve worked with an artist in the past and she has used my images for Spotify, album artworks and also given my images to news?
Is it fair for me to be asking for some sort of payment and reaching out to the new reports for some sort of payment as I said I was happy for the images to be used on social media but are all over music streaming, website and obviously sending them to other people and papers?
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- If your communication was digital, either email or messaging etc, than although you didnt use a contract there was an agreemant, ensure you make a cpoy of them al and mention that when you contact them.
- Hey Lewis, I know how it goes with musicians especially - there isn't always a contract in place. The verbal agreement was personal use (social media being ok). The images are now being used commercially without a commercial use license. So in my eyes, whether or not a contract was in place, your property is now being used without permission. A lot of musicians don't understand it and their managers don't care - or would rather say sorry than ask for permission and see what they can get away with. You could reach out to her management and deal with it directly - pointing out the images were for personal use and they're now being used commercially and attach the document with the terms you'd like them to agree to. Hopefully, they just sign it and be done with it and then you get in first with your terms. Provide them with a commercial usage agreement for all the usage you've currently seen the images used for and the fee. Keep the tone positive and just get right in there with the fee for such usage. I had to chase recently for payment for commercial usage of my images that wasn't agreed upon or compensated. It took over a year and lots of slow email responses but eventually I got my pay out. It wasn't huge but my principles are intact and I have the money in my pocket, not theirs.
- Did you have a contract in place? That's why it is important to discuss everything upfront.
- Definitely!! Collect that coinSend them an invoice with a breakdown of costs for each usage.https://www.the-aop.org/information/usage-calculator -- use this as a rough guide for costings. Theres no specific part for album cover etc. but could probably find something similar on there to work out how much they owe you.there's a getty one too: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/purchase/price-calculator/sb10069475ab-001
- Yes - if I was you, I’d ask!
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