Here’s a figure to keep in mind if a TV producer asks to use your photo or video.
Recently I mentioned how I called United Utilities and was asked for my date of birth for ‘data protection’ reasons. I refused to give it and they wouldn’t discuss my water bill.
Fifteen years ago, when I earned part of my living as a freelance photographer, the going rate for a cover shot on one of the small magazines that I worked for was £200. The magazine sold 12,000 copies each month and that payment gave the publisher the right to publish the image one time only.
If there was a prize for the website with the most downtime then Manchester City Council’s so-called ‘online payments’ page would surely win it.

