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The value of a credit or by-line is what you assign to it in your licensing agreement.
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That's a great point. In the few situations where I've allowed images to be used for no fee, I create a license in the format of an invoice, and specify a licenseing fee for the specific usage, then waive the fee lower on the page, as long as a certain condition is met, in this case, a proper credit line. That sets the value for each situation, and to avoid paying it, the client has to give me the agreed credit.
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If you put in your standard agreement that the usage isn't valid, i.e. there is a copyright infringement without the by line, and you have registered your images, I think you can claim "damages" at 10K per image.
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I wonder where you got that number? In most copyright claims, you do need to justify what you should have received, and unless you did what I said above, I couldn't come up with what a credit line is worth myself. BUT - if its a valid copyright claim (with correct registration prior to infringement) the correct number could be up to $150k. The figure "$10k" doesn't appear anywhere.
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If you don't have your paperwork in order then the 1 cent value might be closer to what you get.
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Regards,
Andy Pearlman
Andy Pearlman Studio