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The Rights DeskPicture licensing, explained

The Rights Desk explains picture licensing for UK buyers, from rights-managed and royalty-free deals to releases, orphan works and AI image provenance.

Shelf 03 · Finding and Provenance

Finding images and trusting provenance

Where to find trustworthy images, what a research brief must state and how provenance signals help UK buyers avoid costly fakes and serious disputes.

· The editorial team of The Rights Desk

A researcher examines photographic prints with a magnifying loupe at a wooden library table.
Reading prints closely before tracing an image to its origin.

On this shelf

5 guides

Every guide on this shelf is listed below with its summary; neighbouring shelves follow.

  1. No. 01

    Searching a picture library with care

    How to search a picture library well, read a licence before buying and compare a buyer's options across collections without rushing choice today.

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    Finding and Provenance
  2. No. 02

    Member data then and now

    What an old picture directory did with member data, what UK data rules demand now and how long a buyer's details should be retained securely today.

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    Finding and Provenance
  3. No. 03

    AI images and copyright questions

    AI-generated images and UK copyright explained, from training data and ownership gaps to labelling and a buyer's disclosure duties in full today.

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    Finding and Provenance
  4. No. 04

    Checking provenance with C2PA and IPTC

    Provenance tools for buyers, from C2PA credentials to IPTC metadata, showing how an image's history can be checked before publication safely today.

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  5. No. 05

    Building a complete research brief

    What a picture research brief should contain, from subject and usage to deadlines, budgets and how a buyer's approval process works in practice today.

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    Finding and Provenance

Two neighbouring shelves extend this one: Licensing Basics and Releases and Reuse.