All photos on this website are copyrighted material and all rights are reserved.

This means you must have written permission to use the photos on this site, or any website, blog or social media site, or photo sharing site.

This also means that when you hire a photographer, purchase images, that the photographer still has the copyright on the images/prints that you buy. Unless you have written permission you cannot copy or reprint any of these images. When we sell you a CD of images we include a Limited Copyright License allowing reprints for personal use.

You cannot use in any way that does not fall under the limited rights granted by the “fair use” clause of the copyright law.  “Fair use” does not mean taking a photo(s) and putting them on your own website or blog, or even modifying them for non-commercial use.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For fair use in trademark law, see Fair use (U.S. trademark law). For the broadband bandwidth management policy, see Fair Access Policy. For fair use of copyrighted works on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Fair use.

Fair use, a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work, is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. The term fair use originated in the United States. A similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright.