How to Get Paid for your Flickr Photos

Buyers are more and more going to Flickr and contacting photographers directly to negotiate sales and the licensing of photos on the site. It's happening. The lack of a great "consumer licensing vehicle" is a major issue in this photography and video licensing marketplace and that is what Cutcaster is trying to create. The combination of the traditional licensing world with a more Web 2.0 community and feel.

The problem with using Flickr to do this is that it's not designed to be a platform to legally license content so you lack the protections that a site like Cutcaster provides you. Plus there is no checks and balances to make sure the person who uploaded the photo is the actual owner and that falls back onto the buyer. Plus without watermarks you can have your photos easily ripped off.

I'm glad to see that people aren't just ripping images off Flickr and not crediting or paying the true owners. It's good to see that photo buyers are reaching out over Flickr to the creators to legally license and use their work.

If interested check out Photopreneur's write up on the same topic.