photo permissions and payment questions

**A* Z* <a*@earthlink.net>**

Hi All:

I'm soliciting input on two photo matters here.  First, a payment  
question.  I haven't worked as an editor (i.e., paying out for photos)  
for over 15 years, so I'm quite out of the loop and unaware of current  
rates.

I have a publisher for a gardening book, and I would like to use pix  
in it for which one property owner would like compensation.  That's  
fine, but I don't know how much to offer her.  I've asked her to tell  
me how much she wants, but she declined and wants me to make an  
offer.   The publisher is a university press.  Initial print run will  
be 2500 copies.  Book dimensions will probably be on the order of  
7x10, and most photos will probably be run at 1/4 page or so.  What's  
standard compensation for something like that these days?  I will  
probably use only 4-5 shots from this property in the book, but  
there's an outside chance the publisher could want a dozen, so perhaps  
offering her one figure for the use of any number of shots would be  
better than offering a per photo rate.  I'm interested in all opinions  
here.

The other question has to do with photos taken on a property that has  
changed hands at least once since the photos were taken.  No property  
release was signed by the person who owned the property when the  
photos were taken.  In fact, he's passed away.  Someone else owns the  
property now, and I could find out who, but it seems to me they don't  
have any right to object to photos of the property taken before they  
owned it.  There are heirs to the person who owned the property when  
the shots were taken, but they no longer own it, either.  Does anyone  
know what one is supposed to do in a situation like this?

TIA,

Amy Ziffer
dba A Shady Lady Garden Design
128 Green Pond Rd.
Sherman, CT  06784
Home office: (860) 350-3565
Cell: (860) 248-0559
amyziffer@earthlink.net
www.amyziffer.com

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