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General Information

Rights-managed or Royalty-free?

The choice is yours: Masterfile can work with you for rights-managed (RM), royalty-free (RF) or both forms of licensing.

We are an exclusive shop

Masterfile requires an "image exclusive" worldwide contract with each artist we represent, without exception. Image exclusivity allows us to offer world-class rights protection to our clients (RM), and a unique product line to our RF distributors. If you opt for both, you can direct which of your images should be considered for RM and which are for RF. Of course, we do not allow similars to appear in both collections.

You make the pictures, we take care of business

• We edit, record, keyword and archive your images for immediate worldwide commercial access (that one sentence represents hours of work for every image that we accept from our artists).
• We have editing teams in Toronto and Dusseldorf.
• We do the file management, marketing, selling, billing and collecting worldwide.
• We pay a royalty of 40% of the funds we collect every time an image is licensed - for both RM & RF licensing (our RF royalty rate is about double industry standard).
• We provide information on market requirements and collection gaps so you can produce relevant images for our clients.
• We track (RM) image usage and protect your copyright around the world.

Looking to join us?

Masterfile is always open to considering new talent to improve and update our collections. We are seeking people who will work hard for us and provide images that keep our clients coming back to Masterfile. And we will work very hard for you.

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Learn more about Masterfile and our history.