Samuel Lewis, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Intellectual Property department, wrote in Digital Photo Pro about agents and stock photo agencies. Although the particulars may vary, there are some common themes: agencies that take too high of a percentage of the license rates as a fee for passively licensing photographers’ images, agencies giving publishers favorable pricing at photographers’ expense, agencies that seem to take forever to issue checks to photographers and agencies failing to pursue unpaid license fees or even account for certain uses of images.
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