You were sent a license page. Here is what it is.
A photographer sent you a page with a price on it. This is what it means, what you get, and what to do if you would rather pay another way.
What you are being offered
The photographs, or the film, of a project you worked on, licensed to you for the uses named on the page: your website, your social channels, print, advertising, or whatever the page lists. The page also names the term (usually one year, sometimes longer, sometimes with no expiry), the territory, and the number of photographs. The fee covers exactly that.
If it is a film, it plays on the page, above the price, so you can watch what you are licensing before you pay. The photographer sees when you open the page or the gallery, what you select there, and, for a film, how much of it you watched.
You are not being billed for something you already own. The photographer who made the photographs has held the copyright to them since the shutter fired, and whoever commissioned the shoot bought a license for their own use, not for yours. On a commercial or civic project that is usually the owner, the developer or the architect; on a home, the seller or the listing agent. That is not a Resid rule; it is how copyright works. The field guide walks through it with a home sale as the example: Who owns the listing photos.
What you get when you pay
- The originals. Full-resolution files, released when payment lands: by email, or as a download on the gallery they came from.
- A written license agreement. A PDF with its own reference number, stating the images, the permitted uses, the term and the territory. Your accounts team has something to file and your marketing team has something to point to.
- A receipt. By email, with the link back to the license page, so you can find all of it again a year from now.
- The licenses you hold with that studio. After the first payment, Resid emails you a page of every license you hold with them: the files, the agreement, a later quote, and Renew this license when that term is up. On another device, enter your email and a new link comes to your inbox.
No account to create, no subscription, no password: the emails that follow your payment are how you find all of it again.
What it costs
The number on the page. The photographer set it for your use; Resid did not. There is no rate card explains why every price is a decision rather than a lookup. If the fee is a problem, reply to the photographer. They can change the scope, the term or the price and send the page again.
If you would rather not pay by card
Ask the photographer. If they take a check or a bank transfer and record it in Resid, everything above still happens: the agreement, the files, the receipt and, after the first payment, the page of licenses you hold with that studio. The license is dated to the day your payment arrived.
What you may and may not do
The permitted uses on the page, and in the agreement, are the whole grant. A few things the license does not include unless the page says so:
- Handing the photographs to another company for its own marketing (a supplier, a dealer, a magazine). They license their own use.
- Uses the page did not name. A license for your website and social channels does not cover a billboard or a trade show booth. Ask: adding a use is a conversation, not a problem.
A credit to the photographer is appreciated where it is practical. It is not a condition of the license, and the agreement says so.
Before the term ends, the photographer can send you a renewal link by email, and you can also press Renew this license on the page Resid emailed you. Paying it extends the same license for another term with no gap.
Already using the photographs?
Some pages arrive after the photographer found the work in use. The price on that page covers the time the photographs have been up as well as the term ahead, and paying it makes the use licensed from the start. Nobody is being fined; the fee is for the license. If you would rather take the images down instead, tell the photographer, and that settles it too.
Questions
The license page has a question box. Anything you type there reaches the photographer directly, and the answer comes back to your inbox. Resid is the software the photographer uses to price, paper and collect a license; the license itself is between you and them.