I am a freelance book designer and I am doing a self-published non-fiction book for an author, and a stock photo company (not Adobe in this case but this would apply to any stock images?) has some ideal historic images, but they are saying to get an “individual licence”, the author must have done everything on his book by himself, not used anyone else at all to help him. It’s crazy. The book will be self-published, as he is paying for the whole book to be done, but he can’t do design work himself – as most authors can’t – and he wants to buy the images under an individual licence, and I will insert them in the master file, designed by me. I won’t be “using” the images in any way except that. The company is trying to charge us a “teams rate” because I am designing the book and will therefore be "using" the images as well. but I'm not doing anything with them except inserting them into his book. Can you advise please? It all hinges on what the term "user" really means?
This might also bring up the question of the cover image, which would be licensed from the same company, later being used as part of the book promotion. How do you get on then, if you have a flyer designed and produced using the same image? I have never come across this before, in 16 years of working in this industry. Or maybe I could buy the licence for the images, place them in the file, so he’s not "using" them himself then???
Thank you, if you can throw any light on this.
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