Our prices

Calculating machine, National Office of Scientific and Industrial Research and Inventions (1932)
Calculating machine, National Office of Scientific and Industrial Research and Inventions (1932)

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Rates apply only to the transfer of film rights.

Transfers of reproduction and distribution rights for photographs are reserved for CNRS promotion purposes. However, it is possible to acquire photographs for audiovisual and cinematographic distribution at the rates below. Photographs may only be sold in this specific case.

All image transfers of rights are non-exclusive and rights are never transferred for perpetuity.

Films for which the CNRS is a minority co-producer are excluded from all assignments. In this case, please contact the executive producer.

Sale of photographs

The transfer of reproduction and distribution rights for photographs is reserved for the promotion of the CNRS and its laboratories. They are free of charge and are granted after CNRS Images has studied your order.

However, for audiovisual and cinematographic use, it is possible to acquire photographs at the rates below. Photographs can only be sold in this specific case.

See our price list below.

Film excerpts

Rates are calculated by combining the various variables specific to each broadcast medium.

The extracts transferred are non-exclusive per 30-second indivisible and cumulative period per source.

The list of rates indicated is not exhaustive. An estimate will be sent for each request.

Discount: 10% on the total amount of the rights from 10 minutes onwards

For each transfer, technical and availability costs are added (VAT 20%)

  • 50€ ex VAT for 1 to 2 extracts
  • Fixed price of €150 excluding VAT for 3 or more extracts

See our price lists below.

Screening rights for entire films

Provision and technical costs (VAT 20%): 20€ excl. tax per digital film file.

See our price lists below.

Documentary research services

Fixed price for research by our team of documentalists:

  • 300 € excl. tax per half day
  • 500 € excl. tax per day

CNRS Images,

Our work is guided by the way scientists question the world around them and we translate their research into images to help people to understand the world better and to awaken their curiosity and wonderment.