Broadcast Rights?

Hi, I was just asked by a producer from a French public channel (France 3, I guess) to use a clip I made in his program. It's some sort of candid camera thingy. It was part of a video report of a school trip to London, and during our trip home, we did this with some friends as a practical joke.
I uploaded it to YouTube and that's where he found it.

Now he asked for a broadcast quality version, and he is willing to pay for research (which was basically an inspiration of the moment) and for the broadcast rights.

Obviously, I'm very new to this stuff. I prepared a DV stream and avi video of it. but what I wanted to ask you guys was wether I should charge anything, and if yes, how much.

Are there any other things I should know about this stuff?

2nyRiggz said:

Indeed, make some money(If he is willing to pay) plus beef up your resume. I can't give you a price but this could be a foot in the door for you so go easy with the price.

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How about letting him decide how much to pay?

Well, didn't do that stuff for money or such, so anything is a welcome bonus, and he works as a producer for a production house, selling a program to a channel, so they will just pass on the costs. so, he's not losing money by offering me more.

It's not that big a deal anyways.

About putting any foots in doors, that would be great, but I highly doubt something like that. but like I said, we made that video for fun in about 5 minutes, (though I did get quite a kick in doing it.) and really, anything that comes from it is more than I ever hoped for.

sarge said:

Productions companies are not usually willing to pay top dollar for video unless it is super crucial to the story, half the time they will just steal it. I would think you could get a couple of hundred dollars out of him though, since he wants broadcast quality- keep in mind that he's trading in Euro's, which are going for almost $1.35 last time I looked, so dollars are relatively cheap and what you think might be high is low to him

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I'm from Belgium, so I use Euto's as well. (and we even pay more euro's than you pay dollars for Apple products, thanks to our wonderful taxes)

Anyways, I'm gonna let him offer what he wants. I never made it with the intention to make money, so anything is nice.