MDP Business Image Use Terms | We love to share but here are our requirements

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Mark Dickinson Photography Image Use Terms (simple version, please see below for full legal terms and conditions)

Image Use Terms

1. If you would like to share our images that incorporate a person, place or thing of or relating to your business PLEASE PROVIDE IMAGE CREDITS AND LINKBACKS.

2. If you would like to use our images that incorporate a person, place or thing of or relating to your business for commercial or print work PLEASE PURCHASE A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. When you purchase a digital download for commercial use, you get a limited licence release to use the image for commercial use, and no credit is neccessary.

Over the past 13 years we have always loved sharing our images with local vendors! However, it has become a one-way street with people snapping images, screen shots and using photographer’s professional images with out permission. In general I NEVER ask for free products, session accessories, flowers, cakes, attire from the local businesses for any reasons in photo shoots, or stylized shoots, so all we ask is a little credit on our work. It’s always been disheartening when I see the images used without any credit and yet others featured on the business page.  Also, while we get the promise of “we tell everyone it is your work” the easiest method is to link, credit and promote it that way. That’s how we do it for our blogs!  We respect copyrights, intellectual property and others’ personal property and know you do too! However, please refer to the following guide for image use. We do not give warnings, or reminders, it is your agreement before receiving images from an event to comply with the image use policy set below.

Requests for images can be sent here: mark@markdickinsonphotography.com

Please specify the bride and groom’s name. Please allow up to 2 months for images (see below for our publishing and sharing time frame with couples, clients, and publishing blogs and magazines)

LEGAL TERMS:

We reserve the right of WHEN and WHERE images can be released to. We have a paid service that we subscribe to so we attempt to publish and feature there first.

1. Any image used in a business capacity that are for paid advertisements are required to have an image license purchased (publications in print etc.). You MUST buy an image license to use the image in paid advertisement prior to using it. If it is for display on your own website, Facebook, or within the 4 walls of your business it is ok with the image credit as indicated in the illustrations below.

Examples of paid business advertisement, or where image license is required to purchase includes but is not limited to:  fliers, post cards, paid sponsored websites, advertisements selling the product, billboards, distributed mass emails (newsletters), prints for display, etc. For a full list or question if your situation requires an image license please email: mark@markdickinsonphotography.com

2.Image submissions through third party advertising companies require the image printing license purchase. This would be such as fliers distributed through mail, store fronts, or other means of distribution. Federal law allows fines for misuse of images. We do have the right to refuse any image used for advertisement at anytime prior to production, however we do not require approval on a finished artwork advertisement.

3. Images and links can not be used on websites that display nudity, sexual content, intimate content, or other negatively promoted items to the general public or our discretion, regardless of purchased image use or not. We do not refund image purchase license after images are delivered. Images license may be revoked at anytime. 

4. No one is permitted to screenshot, crop, modify, edit, add treatments, or create a sub distribution of the images. Images MUST be delivered to you from someone working for MDP via Digital Download, email, or cd/dvd/thumb drive to be valid.

5. Image use for other than paid advertisement are as follows; you must use one of two links (copy and past and retain the hyperlink) Image: Mark Dickinson Photography 
Images
: Mark Dickinson Photography   Photos: Mark Dickinson Photography  Photo: Mark Dickinson Photography For Facebook Links: www.facebook.com/MarkDickinsonPhoto Each image, or cluster of images WITHOUT large gaps are required to have the credit of one of the above. You can also manually type this in.

Here are examples:

Image: Mark Dickinson Photography

Images: Mark Dickinson Photography

          6.  Individual posts on Facebook, or groups of images must be tagged with @markdickinsonphoto (the link must connect to the page) with these. If you have purchased an image license you are not required to hyperlink . Most of our images do have metadata in them but in the event that you upload a mass upload with more than 4 photos, the gallery can be credited vs each individual image.

7. If you are requiring prints for your business, or display for an event, you can purchase the print from us at Cost + 30%. This will be a lot lower price than normal print prices. Prints are shipped and come with a shipping charge from the lab. The buyer is responsible for that. The other option to get prints with an unlimited blanket is buy the commercial unlimited use: ranges from $100.00-$500.00 per image, which you will receive a digital file in full resolution without any restrictions above.

8. We send invoices for any image used outside of the image use policy and require payment within 10 business days of any images in violation of the image license. Removal of the image after determining it was used outside of the image policy does not grant a refund, or non-charge billed for the use. If not paid and or removed within the 10 days, even if you do remove it, you still are required to pay the invoice for the usage. After 10 days if not paid the image is cataloged as a violation of copyright law per federal law.

The images we generally share and approve to be shared for business marketing use is within the postings of our blogs. In general there is enough details, decor, etc. to share within those. If there is an image that is requested in the gallery we can add it to the blog submitted galleries. Requests may take up to 1-2 weeks as we focus on our couples first then the peripherals of the events after. During the process of the experience with the couples we allow them first access to the photos, then we submit our wedding work to get published, and blogged on local, national and international platforms. (We pay for this service). We can release the images after we submit to exclusive platforms who do not allow for other mainstream publications to be posted before theirs is published. There is no guarantee for a promise to give images for deadlines. Our normal turn around time for outside of client requests are 2-4 weeks maximum in general but not guaranteed.

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