SuperStock CEO Stuart Cohen discusses how shifting commercial models and royalty-free licensing compressed payouts for photographers and visual creators.
“No less than 300 dollars. Now you gotta think that each respective license will make no less than say 30 dollars. I mean, it's gone down tenfold easily in the last 15 years.”
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