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I took a photo the other week which I allowed a local news paper to use for free. I was lucky enough for it to make a partial headline on the front page and a 3/4 feature inside. To be published was this years goal.

A fella from the paper phoned and said other papers wanted it syndicating. I agreed to the terms 50/50 and it ended up in the Saturday Mirror heavily cropped and covering about 1/5 of the page and their online site in full. I kept all rights but was credited.

I'm going to phone the fella later to see what is what as I've not heard from him since. But at the same time I don't want to be fobbed off. So can anyone tell me roughly what the going rate is for a photo and any thing else about how this syndication stuff works.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

In reply to mike_uk82:

This might help:
http://www.londonfreelance.org/feesguide/index.php?language=en&country=...

I'd have got a contract before letting them do anything with an image but I haven't had anything used in news, more editorial.

Good luck and do chase.

In reply to london_huddy: Thanks Andrew. A useful looking website. Whenever I did a Google search which included the words 'photo' 'price' 'newspaper', I kept getting links to pages with 'Jordan' aka Katie Price, in.

A more formal agreement would have been a clever idea. I was just a little naïve and eager.

Thanks.

In reply to mike_uk82:

For 1/5 of a page in a daily national, I'd demand £180-200, rising to £300-350 for online use as well.

In reply to TryfAndy: Thanks. Was expecting £30-40 at most. Will be interesting to see what i'm offered.

I license images for an educational publisher and we rarely pay more than £80 for 10 years non exclusive worldwide print and electronic rights for editorial inside use.

In reply to mike_uk82: read the licensing images article on Ming Thein's blog - it may not all apply in the UK, but it's useful knowledge.

In reply to mike_uk82:

You could ask to see the payment paperwork that they are getting, and it will then be clear then that you will get 50%, but it is a bit on 'trust' that they show you the correct paperwork, or all paperwork.

I would have thought though that they would have had a standard agreement pro-forma type document

I know I just said trust a newspaper !

In reply to Jim C:

All depends which paper too. I've found the Torygraph to pay well & very quickly, with the Indy being pretty dire, and the Fail just try to get out of paying altogether.