Company Info

Overview For Artists

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. You can direct which of your images should be considered for RM and which are for RF, or you can leave that choice to your editor. 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.