BLACK BOX PHOTO ONLINE PORTFOLIOS : COPYRIGHT, TERMS & LICENSING All Black Box Photo Online Portfolio images are copyright of Black Box Photo and all rights are fully reserved. Free use of the images by individuals for non-profit purposes is usually granted but specific authorization is required in every case (for further information see the "Free Licensing Preconditions" section, below). Contact Black Box Photo before any public use of the images, stating the reason for and the context, nature and extent of, the requested licence/s (whether for public or private, commercial or non-commercial use, distribution details, etc). If such a request receives no response or is returned as being undeliverable, etc, then that is equivalent to a refusal and you may not proceed with publication until you do obtain express, written permission of the Licensor or the copyright expires. Note that a lack of response or undeliverability does not imply "untraceability" or accord any form of "orphan work" status to the images: Black Box Photo and/or its successors reserve the right to refuse delivery of, or otherwise not enter into, any communication regarding any licensing of the images beyond that granted in the Terms of Use (below) and accept no obligation to maintain communicability apropos of such. Further information (if any) may be available via the details given online at . Any automated digital image analysis and indexing of Black Box Photo Online Portfolio images by any method, including "face recognition" and related technologies (collectively popularly known as "hashing" or "fingerprinting"), performed directly or indirectly by or on behalf of a commercial organization, comprises unauthorized Adaptation of the images and is strictly prohibited. With regard to Black Box Photo Online Portfolio Copyright Reference Images only: automated digital image analysis and indexing concerned solely with copyright determination by systems that deploy no kind of "face recognition" technology and that are operated by or on behalf of non-commercial organizations only are exempt from this prohibition. Note that these conditions prohibit publication of any Portfolio image in most web "mashups" and on many current "social networking", "photoblog" or similar sites, whether or not by individuals and whether not for any form of consideration, financial or otherwise. BLACK BOX PHOTO ONLINE PORTFOLIO IMAGES - COPYRIGHT STATEMENT BLACK BOX PHOTO ONLINE PORTFOLIO IMAGES ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND ALL ASSOCIATED MORAL RIGHTS ARE ASSERTED UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BERNE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS (AS AMENDED SEPTEMBER 28, 1979), THE WIPO COPYRIGHT TREATY OF 1996, AND THE UNIVERSAL COPYRIGHT CONVENTION (AS REVISED JULY 24, 1971). ADAPTATION, PUBLICATION, REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ANY IMAGE THAT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED, IN WRITING, BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER IS PROHIBITED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THE NAME "BLACK BOX" IS A PSEUDONYM FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND ORIGINAL COPYRIGHT HOLDER. BLACK BOX PHOTO WEBSITE & ONLINE PORTFOLIO IMAGES - TERMS OF USE Black Box Photo Online Portfolio images are provided for individual, non-profit, non-corporate viewing only, solely by a direct, online web browser connection to Internet systems &/or intermediate Internet relays serving this web site, , and may not be reproduced, adapted, or distributed (recorded, "mixed" or published) in any form in any other medium without prior, express written permission of the Licensor. BLACK BOX PHOTO ONLINE PORTFOLIO IMAGE COPYRIGHT SUMMARY NOTICES A copyright summary notice appears in the "IPTC IIM metadata" of each original image file and a "watermark" consisting of an OCLC hosted "permanent URL" referencing an online copy of the current version of this document is visually perceptible in each original image, usually - but not always - along or near one of its edges. BLACK BOX PHOTO ONLINE PORTFOLIO COPYRIGHT REFERENCE IMAGES "Thumbnail" versions of Black Box Photo Online Portfolio images for copyright reference are at . DISCONTINUATION OF MODIFIED "CREATIVE COMMONS" ("CCPL") LICENSING From January 2005 to July 2010 (inclusive) some Black Box Online Portfolio image files were licensed for non-commercial use under modified versions of the Creative Commons Public License ("CCPL") "Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Unported" ("cc by-nc-nd"). All CC-derived licensing is now discontinued and Black Box Online Portfolio images are licensed only as described above, but those individual Licensees who utilized a CC-derived Licence during the period in which it applied and who still use the images concerned in the original Licensed context may continue to exercise that CC- derived License on an exclusive, non-transferrable, non-assignable basis for the duration of their continued original use of the images. For further information, see . CURRENT GENERAL LICENSING PRECONDITIONS Copyright licences will not be granted for any adaptation and/or publication and/or reproduction and/or distribution in jurisdictions where "orphan works" licensing schemes, sometimes known as "extended collective licensing" schemes, such as proposed in the UK "Digital Economy Bill [HL] (2009)" or the US "S.2913, 110th Cong (2008)" or any similar, applicable legal construct is mandated without a time unlimited "opt-in" period. All adaptation and/or publication and/or reproduction and/or distribution licenses for Black Box Photo images are subject to immediate termination in any jurisdication where such a scheme, without a time unlimited "opt-in" period, is mandated after a Grant of Licence. Copyright licenses will not be granted for any form of adaptation and/or publication and/or distribution and/or reproduction that requires or results in any limitation of any Black Box Photo reserved right. All licenses are written subject to termination or recasting to obviate any such limitation in the event that such limitation is introduced or discovered at any time after a Grant of Licence. Licenses for "candid" or "street photographs" taken in public spaces are unavailable except for personal use or for specifically-approved, advertising-unrelated editorial or non-profit purposes only. FREE LICENSING PRECONDITIONS Photographic copyright generally applies to the copying, public display, distribution and reproduction of photographs - broadly speaking, their publication. It does not generally apply to "personal" uses of images that do not involve "publication". While printing an image or saving it to disk is in fact reproducing it in terms of copyright law, if - and only if - you use any of the Black Box Photo Online Portfolio images as personal "screen savers" or "wallpaper" that you do not distribute to others, or you use ant of them to illustrate a college assignment seen only by you and an assessor (and perhaps a few friends or family to whom you choose personally to show it) or if you use any as personal workbook covers, or paste segments into a collage on your study walls, etc., then it probably does not affect you at all, as Black Box Photo will usually overlook minor technical infringements of copyright even if they become known, but if you "publish" any of the images - for example, on personal websites or "blogs", or if you use them on greetings cards or invitations to parties or reunions, or in photobooks or in calendars that you give to others as holiday gifts, or as posters you display in places that are visible to the public, or you compile or "publish" them in any other way that does not conform to "fair use" or "fair dealing" and related legal constructs as provided for under the copyright law of your jurisdiction (but specifically excluding "orphan works", "collective licensing" or any similar legislation, as outlined under "Current General Licensing Preconditions, above) - then express, written permission of the copyright holder/Licensor must be obtained before you proceed. If the above, solely discretionary "waiver" of Black Box Photo Online Portfolio Terms of Use does not apply to your use of any of the images, minimum preconditions for the granting of free licences are usually as follows: Online copies of the images may not be adapted or altered and all Black Box Photo IPTC IIM metadata and watermarking must be retained unchanged. Extrinsic (visible) watermarking or agreed alternatives must be retained on all "hard" (for example, printed paper) copies. "Adaptation" includes, for example, the making "derivative works" such as collages; any form of inclusion in either recorded or live performances or presentations; recasting or transformation, such as posterization or re-rendition as line art; the superimposition of captions or commentary; alteration of colour or tonal balance; any retouching, trimming, cropping, masking, resampling or alteration of the aspect ratio; etc. Note that at this time these conditions prohibit publication in most "mashups" and on many social networking, "photoblog" or similar Internet sites. Electronic copies of the images may be resampled or redigitized only if the processes involved enable raster-identical display and bitwise identical facsimiles of the original digital file format, including all watermarking and embedded metadata, to be recovered unaltered, using only readily-available, rights-unencumbered, cost-free methods. Note that at this time this condition prohibits publication in most "mashups" or on many "social networking" or photo/blog sites, etc. Online copies of the images may not be resized except by the use of HTML markup tags or their functional equivalents or by software, firmware or hardware resizing within World Wide Web or other such image browsers or devices that is applied at the time of display and not rendered into a permanent form. Note that at this time this condition excludes publication in many "mashups" or on many "social networking", blog and photoblog sites, etc. "Hard" (i.e. printed or otherwise "permanently" rendered) copies of the images may not be subjected to any processing that at any stage increases the pixel count or the perceptual equivalent of the pixel count of the originals (for example, by "upsizing" or "ressing - or rezzing - up", "fractal interpolation" or "deconvolution" and so on). Free licenses will not be granted for any publication, distribution or reproduction of the images that results - whether intended by or foreknown to the licensee or others or not - in any commercial advantage or monetary compensation to any party. Exceptions for non-profit organizations, etc., may be granted on a case-by-case basis. Note that at this time this condition excludes publication in many "mashups" or on many "social networking", blog and photoblog sites, etc. Charges by providers of the basic, content and customer neutral services and infrastructure required in the exercise of a license (for example Internet connectivity provision, web hosting services, print or copy shops, etc) are exempted from this condition, but profits of any added value providers and aggregators (such as multi-blog site operators, etc) generally are not. Images may not be published, distributed or reproduced in any context or manner that might discredit or cause damage to the interests of or abrogate the rights of or compromise the integrity of or impugn or damage the good name or honour or reputation of or cause to be held up to public ridicule any living natural person depicted within them. Except in the event of a compromise or potential compromise of Black Box Photo's reserved moral rights in an image, any living natural person so depicted shall be the sole arbiter of this provision. Note that all free licences are written such that in the event that any conflict with their conditions is introduced or is discovered at any time after a Grant of Licence, Black Box Photo reserves the right to terminate or recast those licences in order to obviate such conflict. 1 July 2011