Using National Trust images

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Folks,

I am looking at organising a photography day out at Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=320995) and as it is a National Trust property was aware of image use restrictions. Anyway I emailed to ask what could be done and this is the reply. Looks like as long as you can sell your image for enough you may be able to cover the cost and sell NT property images :shrug:

Hi Nick,

Apologies for assuming you were organising your own tour - I get a lot of people asking to do this, so assumed you were requesting the same. You have two options if you wish to sell images taken at Orford Ness:

1. For Restricted Access land such as Orford Ness we can issue a one off license allowing a photographer to take images for editorial sale for £150.00. This would allow the photographer to sell the images for everything other than advertising, which the National Trust almost never allows (this is simply to protect the charity from unwanted associations).

2. You can join our Professional Photographers Permit Scheme, which is £75.00 per year and allows you to take images outside at all National Trust properties for a year. This would entitle you to sell images directly for editorial uses but would not allow you to sell images through photo libraries. All images are sent into NTPL for sale on an agency basis (i.e. you are paid 50% of any profit we receive). I've attached the Terms & Conditions of the scheme for your reference.

If you are interested in either option please let me know so that we can set you up accordingly.

Regards,

Chris.


Anyway thought that this may be of interest to people :shrug:

Nick
 
So you can pay £75 per year for them to sell your photos and take 50% - love it :)

Would have to know you can make a good few sales to make the £150 in the other "offer" though.
 
As a menber of the NT I found it very interesting and didn't realise you can get permit for just £75. Thanks for posting.

Ian
 
So you can pay £75 per year for them to sell your photos and take 50% - love it :)

Would have to know you can make a good few sales to make the £150 in the other "offer" though.

I know what you mean - at least you can actually find a way of doing it though :shrug:

Having said that I would need a serious improvement to be able to make £150 on top of a days shooting bearing in mind I have not sold anything :lol:
 
So you can pay £75 per year for them to sell your photos and take 50% - love it :)

Would have to know you can make a good few sales to make the £150 in the other "offer" though.

Well 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing. And as a good cause charity, I dont find this a bad deal.

Ian
 
I'd want to see the images they already had in their library to see whether it was worth stumping up the £75... what happens if your annual fee runs out and you still have images in their photolibrary?
 
I'd want to see the images they already had in their library to see whether it was worth stumping up the £75... what happens if your annual fee runs out and you still have images in their photolibrary?


You take it on the chin. :D

Kev.
 
or, just dont take a photo with anything recognisable as NT land... :D

that is crazy amount of money though, i wonder if they make a lot of cash out of that. surely they dont get that much take up on those 2 options?!
 
Having said that I would need a serious improvement to be able to make £150 on top of a days shooting bearing in mind I have not sold anything :lol:

Cheaper than the £750 a day minimum fee that National Rail quoted me for taking photographs at London Bridge station if there was the remotest possibility that I might sell some of the images.

Considering the project I am doing would require only ten or fifteen minutes at a time, but once a week for a year and a half, it was a financial non-starter. :gag:
 
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