LoeberNet Copyright
[back] [home] [take a tour] [e-mail]

NOTE: Philip Greenspun has been on the net longer than I have and consequently, he knows alot more about this, and other stuff, than I do. I essentially lifted this copyright from photo.net, and made a few changes. Anyway, you should check out his stuff...lots of good photos and writing and a very helpful resource.
All the text and pictures on this Web server are copyright 1997 Justin Loeber.

Here are the terms of my blanket license...

Printing of photos for personal use

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, then please feel free to print anything you like from my site.

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 hyperlinked credit. Acceptable HTML is
photographs courtesy <a href="http://www.jloeber.net">Justin Loeber</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:
  1. register the URL with me (sending email is fine)
  2. add the hyperlinked credit as above
You do not need to pay for usage, either, though I reserve the right to deny usage on sites that I find to be truly poisonous.

If you would like to distinguish yourself from the get-rich-quick artists looking to make a fast buck off the Internet without contributing anything back to the community and you feel that my photography enhances your site, then please make a charitable donation to...something...I'm in the process of identifying a good charity to work with. In the meantime, you can send me your money (he he).

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.

Bounty

If you see one of my pictures in a magazine(highly unlikely) 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 for your wall (value hard to establish, but definitely at least $100).

Text and Stories

Please feel free to redistribute for noncommercial purposes any of my writings, but please don't break up documents and please attribute the source in such a way that someone can find the most up-to-date version on the Web.

Use of photos and Web pages in print

If you are doing a story, book, or CD-ROM about the World Wide Web, please feel free to include a page or two of mine under the following conditions:
  1. screen captures must be made from a computer with a 24-bit color video board. (Machines with 8-bit cards produce distorted images and colors.) I will supply dupe PhotoCDs or traditional transparencies for reproduction upon request.
  2. the URL must be legible in the capture or separately printed in a caption
  3. a small credit must be printed reading "Web page courtesy Justin Loeber (justin@kisco.com)" or "Photos courtesy Justin Loeber (justin@kisco.com)"
  4. send me email informing me of the usage and/or Snail Mail a copy of the finished item to Justin Loeber, 40 West Main St., 6B Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
If you simply want to use my photographs to illustrate an article that is not about my Web pages, then that is commercial usage, you are not covered by any of these blanket licenses, and you should send me email with a proposal. An exception to this is free publications put out by non-commercial organizations; you guys can use whatever you want with credit as above.

Fellow Internetters: I am sorry to sound such a legalistic note but I have encountered quite a few people who want to get rich quick off Internet. As they see it, all the work that has been done for 25 years to share with each other is rightfully theirs to sell. Having invested nothing in terms of time or money, they'd like to get rich off Internet and its creators without ever giving anything back.