F.A.Q.

Copyright

Copyright Declaration

All images shown on this site are protected by International Copyright Law and by the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988. All images, text and ideas are the 'intellectual property' of "Image By Steve"

None of the images and no part of this property may be used without the prior written permission of "Image By Steve", including copying, duplicating, printing, publishing (even on a website), reproducing, storing, or transmitting by any means what so ever.

Guide

Some clients find the concept of copyright and licensing quite confusing. This page is targeted at helping clients who may be struggling with this area of commissioning a photographer.

Copyright is about who owns the images.

Licensing is about who has the right to reproduce the images.

A license can be designed to fit a clients needs. It will set out what type of publications the photographs can be used in, under what circumstances, where in the world they can be used and the length of time this agreement between photographer and client lasts.

If the client finds they need to use the photographs in a way that is not covered by the license or that they need to use them after the period of the license has run out, they need to contact the photographer to negotiate further use at an extra cost.

When the client buys with "permission to print", this means that the client has the permission to print individual images for private use, i.e. from boots or some other photo print shop, but it does NOT mean that the images can be further published, in a magazine for instance, all copyright still remains with "Image By Steve" in this case and if further publication is required this will incur a further cost to buy the copyright from Image By Steve.