Who owns the copyright to this site and to the content?
What are the basic uses for content on this site?
Why are there limits on the use of these images and words?
What will we do to protect our copyright?
Site Content License
Other Use License
Who owns the copyright to this site and to the content?
That would be us, Tanya Symons Bredehoft (tsb) and/or George Spicer Bredehoft (gsb). All rights to all our original images and words are reserved by us.
The limited use license for all legal uses of the images and/or words which are viewed on or obtained from this site is detailed here
Occasionally there may be images, sounds, and/or words posted to this site which are the works of others. These works will be duly attributed and tagged with the appropriate copyright notice and, when possible, linked to the creator of the works.
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What are the basic uses for content on this site?
View them, download them, enjoy them (or not), and post them - UNMODIFIED - to your own site as long as the images are indeed unmodified, are linked to the home page of our site, are properly credited to us, and include the proper copyright info.
Please do not directly link a tag on your site to an image or page as the address is likely to change.
For a review of the details of the limited license one has agreed to by entering this site click here.
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Why are there limits on the use of these images and words?
A good question and the answer to which is found in the balancing of multiple issues.
First is that we want to share our work with prospective clients as well as any others who may appreciate it.
Second is that we have spent our lives-to-date learning how to create these works. Creating images and words - conveying thoughts and ideas - is our livelyhood.
Third is that we feel it is less-than-fair for people to take shortcuts at other's expense and/or to claim credit for that which is not theirs. See point two.
Fourth is that if we do not make an effort to protect the rights to what we have created, we will have, by the lack of such action, diminished the right to call our creations ours.
Fifth is, just like everyone else in the world, we need to eat and a place to live. These works are central to our generating an income. If someone takes them, calls them their own, and/or uses them in a fashion other than what is allowed in the licences we grant, that someone is jeopardizing our livelihood and is therefore endangering our lives.
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What will we do to protect our copyright?
Protecting our works starts with establishing the limited licenses for their use. These licenses set what we believe to be reasonable and reasonably enforceable usage guidelines.
In terms of determining what is a non-licensed use...
As an example, while we do license some our work for other's specific-project content-creation purposes, we do so with a specific agreement, for a specific image, with and for a specific client. So, if an image of ours were to show up as part of someone's work whom we don't know or as some part of a project not specifically covered in an agreement, it is rather easy to deem the use as being non-licensed.
For details of the limited licenses, click here
It is our hope and intention, that with these reasonable guidelines, which are easy to abide, people will treat us reasonably and not steal our livelihood.
The far shorter answer is... we will do whatever it takes.
:-)
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Site Content License
Anyone visiting, viewing, or downloading data or files from this site (the user) attests that they have read, do understand, and fully agree to the following...
This site, including all of the images, sounds, and words (the works) are the copyrighted property of Tanya Symons Bredehoft (tsb) and/or George Spicer Bredehoft (gsb) with all rights reserved (unless otherwise attributed).
There are NO LEGAL COMMERCIAL USEs of the works which are granted to the user by either tsb or gsb, when the user visits, views, or downloads any page or the works published here by tsb and gsb.
There are only three explicit and/or implied rights which are granted to the user when accessing the works on this site...
The first legal use of the works is to view the works as they are displayed unmodified on the user's screen.
The second legal use of the works is to enjoy (or not) the viewing of the works as they are displayed, unmodified, on the user's screen.
The third legal use of the works is the posting, along with any and all included URLs, claims, attributions, and copyright information, of the works as they exist - UNMODIFIED - to another's web site for the primary purpose of directing others to this site.
There are no other rights or obligations offered, nor other legal uses of the works which are granted, by either tsb or gsb to the user, by the sole act of the user viewing, accessing, downloading, or "possessing" the works which were created by tsb and/or gsb and/or that which reside on this site.
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Other Use License
The following text represents the core of our original creative content license which is part of all of our contracts for client projects...
All original creative content (the work) - which was created by Tanya Symons Bredehoft (tsb) and/or George Spicer Bredehoft (gsb), for use in theProjectName (the project) produced for theClientName (the client) - remains the copyrighted property of tsb and/or gsb with all rights reserved.
Included in the cost for services, the client is purchasing the right to use the work exclusively and specifically in accordance with the terms set forth in this license and the enclosing services agreement.
When contracting and paying for the project, the client is granted the right to use and/or display the work as it exists - unmodified - on the original medium and in the original context of the project.
There are absolutely NO OTHER LEGAL COMMERCIAL USEs of the work - other than the specific case called for in the original context of the project - which are granted to the user by either tsb or gsb, when the client contracts and pays for a project service (the project) and which was performed by tsb and/or gsb.
There are no other rights or obligations offered, nor other legal use of the work which is granted, by either tsb or gsb to the client, by the sole act contracting and paying for the project.
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