DepositPhotos: Affordable Royalty-Free Stock Photos with Reverse Image Lookup!
A royalty is a payment made to an individual or entity for using their intellectual property (IP), such as a patent, trademark, or copyrighted work. In photography, a royalty would be paid to a photographer for using one of their photographs.
For example, a photographer takes a photo of a popular landmark and licenses it to a travel website for use on their website. The website wants to use the photo for a year, and the photographer charges them $100 for a one-year license. Once the license is purchased, the website can use the photo on its website for a year, and the photographer receives a royalty of $100. The photographer will also receive a small percentage of the sale as a commission from the stock photography site.
Our stock photo bill was hundreds of dollars a month from our sites, blog posts, whitepapers, and all of the content we produce for clients. It seemed like as soon as I filled the account, it would be empty within a week. We paid some hefty prices with a well-known stock photo site. So, we turned instead to royalty-free stock images.