A controversial but inevitable move: A new USA Today contract increases the day rate for freelance photographers by $100, but in return demands the right to use photos in any medium forever, including USAToday.com and any other Gannett publications (which includes 90 newspapers, 23 TV stations, 130 Web sites and hundreds of other publications the publishing giant owns), reports PDN Online.
The new contract, which went into effect April 1, pays a day rate of $375, up from $275. The old contract also paid a $100 transmission fee for up to six digital images plus $10 for each additional image, but that fee has been reduced to a flat $25 in the new contract. Also, the new contract pays no extra fees for online use or print reuse.