Printing of photos for personal use
This site contains copywritten images thoughout the
site. In many cases, you may find that the authors of this site have
disabled the ability to right-click and save images from this site. This
function is disabled to protect the works of the authors.
If you want a copy of one of my pictures to stick on your fridge or use
in a school project or cover a crack in your wall,
you may request any image from the site by contacting "TheAncient" from
the contact page. When requesting an image, please indicate your
intended use. As long as it will be used for personal enjoyment, the
request will be honored. If you intend to use the images for commerical
or business use, a fee will be negotiated.
Non-commercial Web use of photos
If you have a personal home page or non-commercial Web service, please
feel free to use my photographs with a hyperlinked credit on every page
where one of my photos appears. Acceptable HTML is
photographs courtesy <a href="http://www.ancientpathway.com/">Ancient
Pathway</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.
Commercial Web use of photos
If you would like to use my pictures on a commercial page, then please
do the following:
- register the URL with me (sending email is fine)
- add the hyperlinked credit as above (on every page
where a photo appears)
Once the URL is registered via email, your usage
request will be evaluated. In the event that the image or photo is being
used for commercial advertising, a one time fee for use may be imposed.
Depending on usage, I reserve the right to deny usage on sites
that I find to be truly poisonous.
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 release 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 generally already gotten the relevant releases.
Paintings/Drawings
Artists are welcome to use these photos as a basis for a drawing or
painting in exchange for a credit. If an image of the artwork is
displayed on the Web, credit should be a hyperlink to
http://www.ancientpathway.com with a note "Partially based on a photo
from http://
www.ancientpathway.com". Otherwise
the same note can be used in a printed description of the work.
Bounty
If you see one of my pictures in a magazine or a Web page and there is
no credit, then it is almost surely unauthorized. If you are the first
person to tell me about it, I'll send you a free print of our choice for
your wall
or up to a 75% discount from our online
shop.Text and Stories
Please feel free to redistribute via hardcopy or email for noncommercial
purposes any of my writings, but please don't break up documents (except
by chapter) and please attribute the source in such a way that someone
can find the most up-to-date version on the Web with the appropriate
hyperlink included.
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 and service innovations.
Final word:
Copyright information is always in flux. Please
check back often to see if the rules have changed to accomodate local,
state or federal laws. Please do not assume that you used an image
before and therefore there should be no problems now.