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Copyright Noticeby Jason Fobart |
Here are the terms of my blanket license...
photographs courtesy <a
href="http://www.fobart.net/jason/">Jason Fobart</a>
That way people know who took the picture and also can find my on-line copyright statement. You do not need to pay for usage. Just build the best Web site you can and give it back to the community.
Note: remember that most of the pictures of people on my pages are not model-released. Advertising usage of photos (e.g., brochures, catalogs, print ads) is very different from editorial usage of photos (e.g., newspaper and magazine articles, books). You cannot use pictures in advertising (e.g., an on-line product brochure or anything else that is selling) without getting a model rele ase from any person whose image is recognizable in the photo. You might also have problems if an image contains a recognizable physical property, e.g., Disneyland. One of the reasons advertisers pay $1000+ for images from stock agencies is that those agencies have generall y already gotten the relevant releases.
Please do not ever copy any of my (text) content to a public Web server. Link to my pages instead. I guarantee not to break any of your links. The problem with you putting a page on your server is that the search engines will find it and send my readers to your server instead. Thus they will be deprived of my latest content.
If you simply want to use my photographs to illustrate an article that is not about my Web pages, e.g., you just want a bear photo to go with a story on bears, then that is commercial usage, you are not covered by any of these blanket licenses, and you s hould send me email with a proposal. An exception to this is free publications put out by non-commercial organizations; you guys can use whatever you want with credit as above.