Copyright

I license much of my work through creative commons using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. Other work is licensed © All Rights Reserved. I will identify the license for each image here on my blog as well as on Flickr where most of the images are hosted.

Most of the images not licensed under creative commons are of people or are licensed exclusively through Getty. It is unlikely I will grant a license to use the images that are not creative commons. However, if an image is licensed through Creative Commons but the terms do not work for your project, contact me and we can discuss pricing for your usage.

All usage requires attribution in a way that the viewers of your publication will be able to easily identify me. Additionally a comment on the flickr image or on my blog would be nice to tell me that you have used the image.

Many of my older images, on Flickr, indicate a Creative Commons license but have a watermark or EXIF that indicates otherwise. In these cases the license indication on Flickr is correct. If you need a copy without a watermark or stripped EXIF contact me and I will see if I can get one for you.

One note I will make, regarding derivative works, is that your usage of one of my images licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License is not considered derivative according to my reading of the documentation around the creative commons licenses so long as you only include it, unaltered or only slightly altered like resizing it, in other work like a blog post or a church flyer. It only becomes derivative, and therefore requires the same license as my own, if you make changes to my work in before including it in the other work.

For instance if you have written a blog post on the subject of water conservation and you use an image, which I have provided under the license depicting water, to illustrate your article your article does not need to be released under the same license. That said you must always provide image credit to me, if you use one of my images distributed under the license, regardless of if your work is a derivative of mine. Obviously, regardless of if you make changes or not, if a work based on my image is distributed alone it is subject to the license.

If my interpretation of what constitutes a derivative work is incorrect here then I want to be clear. Any work I have licensed under any version of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike is hereby also licensed to be used in an unaltered or slightly altered, size and shape changes, within another work which will not be distributed under the same license.