LICENSES AND OWNERSHIP INFO
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LICENSING INFO
You probably found this page through a link on Google Images, and I thank you for your interest in my photographs. As in every other occupation, professional photographers must be compensated for our work to survive. So if you would like to post, reproduce, or publish one or more of my images, please contact us HERE.
We promise a quick response and will do our best to work within your budget.
TRADEMARK AND COPYRIGHT INFO
Wild Horizons® is our official Trademark and Service Mark registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It has been in continuous use in interstate and international commerce since 1985. Print and electronic media and media services in the fields of nature and photography are covered by our multiple registrations. Advertising or distributing products or services using our company name is strictly prohibited by law.
COPYRIGHT & TERMS OF USE
Our Wild Horizons® websites contain products, images, text, and designs which are protected by United States and International Copyright Laws, with All Rights Reserved. Photography is our business, so please respect our ownership of the content on this website. None of our images fall in the Public Domain. We ask that you do not modify, copy, reproduce, re-publish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute any material from this website without written permission from us. Copyright laws were designed to protect the livelihood of creative people. Stealing work that another person has created is no more ethical than walking into a shoe store to steal a pair of shoes that you’ve taken a liking to.
GUIDELINES FOR PERMISSIONS
- We license images on a Rights Managed basis. The greater the exposure an image will receive, the higher our fees. We are, however, open to TRADE for goods or services of special interest to us. We have no interest in trading the use of our images for a “credit line.” We attempt to work within everyone’s budget.
- Publishers and their picture researchers may freely download images for review purposes only, e.g. the preparation of “comps” for in-house discussion.
- Please do not ask for special discounts unless you are an all-volunteer organization. If you pay writers, graphic designers, or editors for their contributions, photographers deserve fair pay as well.
- You do not need permission from us to use one of our images on your desktop as a screensaver, or to print a small copy for a classroom project or for your personal enjoyment. This does not include the right to reproduce or distribute multiple copies of our images without written authorization from us.
- We are flattered when our images are shared with others on social media, IF, and only if, the service provider retains our ownership information with hot-links back to our website. Keep in mind that most photo-sharing sites strip ownership/contact metadata from images during upload to their website, a practice that should be illegal! Visit the Controlled Vocabulary Forum for a discussion and on-going survey of this problem.
- If your questions are not answered here, please contact Thomas Wiewandt