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The cost of pictures
Jan. 9th, 2012 06:30 pmThis is a follow-up to my post on obtaining the rights to print newspaper pictures in the biography.
It turned out that newsbank.com did not hold the rights to the material in their archives, but a nice person in their organization looked up who did and sent me an email. (Her name was "Janet Stewart", and for a crazy moment I wondered why the Farrars were writing to me.)
My preliminary check is that the cost of using the pictures will be $150 to $250 per picture, depending on the size of the print run of the book.
This is a hard blow. There are some great pictures of Isaac in the 60s and 70s that appeared in the papers, but at these prices I probably can't afford to include more than a couple of them.
This is another "perhaps the horse will learn to sing" problem. I can't purchase the rights until I can give the rights-holders the name of the publisher, which I won't know for at least 2-3 years. Maybe the publisher will find it worthwhile to purchase the rights. In the meantime, I'll note that it's an issue and move on.
It turned out that newsbank.com did not hold the rights to the material in their archives, but a nice person in their organization looked up who did and sent me an email. (Her name was "Janet Stewart", and for a crazy moment I wondered why the Farrars were writing to me.)
My preliminary check is that the cost of using the pictures will be $150 to $250 per picture, depending on the size of the print run of the book.
This is a hard blow. There are some great pictures of Isaac in the 60s and 70s that appeared in the papers, but at these prices I probably can't afford to include more than a couple of them.
This is another "perhaps the horse will learn to sing" problem. I can't purchase the rights until I can give the rights-holders the name of the publisher, which I won't know for at least 2-3 years. Maybe the publisher will find it worthwhile to purchase the rights. In the meantime, I'll note that it's an issue and move on.
