I am admittedly, a 'new to the business' freelance photographer.
In negotiating terms or trying to come up with a contract that makes sense, long after beginning and practically finishing a job with a client where all said 'contract terms' were primarily verbally agreed upon and approved at various stages of the job 'process,' I find myself in a bind now, in terms of what the client wants & expects, vs. what I feel is fair and self protective as a professional 'artist.'
In other words, if anyone out there has any advice as to how I can go about setting a fair licensing agreement, for photographs that they have selected and wish to use for their own marketing and future (ambiguous) purposes, without any limitation or time statutes, and for hardly a fair price, please do advise how best I can put into writing what it is I am agreeing to, and what I am not, if I am interested in being paid a flat fee for the selected photos and their free-reign usage (limitless - since they do not want to be bothered with future re-negotiations, except for in the case of future publications in outside publications such as magazines, etc. for which I would like to include a clause for a flat fee that I would have to be paid as the photographer, along with a request for release.)
I certainly would appreciate it, after finding myself already learning quite a bit and probably getting everything backwards on this first 'professional job' involving a firm that paid me to take photographs, agreed to separately purchase selected photographs (or at least the license to use them, ) but now is re-shaping what they are willing to actually do and pay for and what they are expecting in return, without any formal agreement having been signed prior to this job's near completion.
Thank you-
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