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A New AP Contract Emerging?

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There’s discussion about a new Associated Press contract floating around (UPDATED: We critique it here – The 2008 AP Contract Analysis – Introduction, 5/19/08), and we’d like to set our eyes (or sights) on it. There’s rumors of a long overdue royalty for re-sales, but it’s still a work-made-for-hire for the entire assignment, apparently, not just on the selected image(s). These are, just rumors, until someone sends it to us. (hint hint). Then, we’ll take to reviewing it’s terms, and let you know if we think it’s a good better deal than the current one.

Which begs the question – this can’t be that they’re giving photographers a resale percentage out of the goodness of their heart, could it? Or, perhaps it’s because they’re not getting the level of consistent talent from their stringers? We’ll wait to answer those, and other questions, and hopefully get a chance to talk to those at the AP who’ve put this one together, to understand their thinking behind it.
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Originally published on Photo Business News & Forum on May 14, 2008. Comments are closed; this post is part of the archive.

5 thoughts on “A New AP Contract Emerging?”

  4. I just received this contract the other day. It’s pretty much the same as the old one. It only includes a 20-percent royalty to photographers for photos sold by AP to non-members. Big whoop. Will the AP be as aggressive to make future sales on the images I worked hard to make? Doubt it. Bottom line, I plan on wiping my ass with this POS contract.

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