#slowpayment

From a newly started site where creatives (not just photographers) can list slow-paying or non-paying clients: http://theshitlist.org/faqs/

Unpaid invoices? Clients using your work but leaving you on the hook financially? Wondering if a prospective client will pay you promptly or leave you hanging? Curious as to if some publications are notorious for truancy or if it’s just your bad luck?

Take a moment to upload any truant invoices to The Shit List and see if you can:

finally get that invoice paid

get enough other creatives together for a class action suit

do research on upcoming clients.

overthrow capitalism?????? (just kidding, sort of)

0, stock sale. Joint copyright.

“Someone from the service might reach out to you to recruit you as a freelance photo or video journalist. They will essentially harass you in the hopes of having you seek to create sensationalist work or despair porn for their site. When you do create something they are interested in and they make a sale it appears that the money doesn't even end up in your account. I would recommend avoiding this outlet.”

$2,000. Assignment work, 2016 - Travel photography

Usage -  16 pages

12 months of loss of rights then available to re-sell as stock.

All expenses including flights, accomodation and food.

$1,149.75. Photo essay, Assignment, 2016. 

Transport, parking expenses covered.

100 EUR, Portrait series assignment, 2016.  7 spreads

All copyrights retained by photographer 

USD 500 (Video / Multimedia, Two day shoot - 2013)

Photographer retained rights

No budget for transport, mileage, etc.

Ignored my emails for months after the shoot after I invoiced them, finally getting back to me with several half-baked excuses. After four months they paid me a fraction of the agreed upon price for my video work.

Speed of payment - 4 months

$300 Day Rate. Online usage (Assignment work, 2014)

Daily Mail retains all rights to images, can use in portfolio. 

Last minute phone calls for assignments, often the same day with 1-2 hours of notice, tabloid style reporting required with ethical considerations for photojournalists. 

US federal mileage rate covered. 

150 MXN (11 USD) per image / 800 MXN (60 USD) per photo gallery (Assignment work, 2013)

Grupo Expansion owns copyright 'perpetually'. Photographer cannot re-sell his/her own work again. Bound to accept terms in contract to get paid

There is no security to freelancers in dangerous situations in Mexico. Even work done under risk situations is paid the same way. Paid after repetitive insistence (4 months)