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All the text and pictures on this Web server are copyright 2005 Stephen and Susan Sehi-Smith

Here are the terms of our blanket license...

Printing of photos for personal use

If you want a copy of one of our images 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 our images with a hyperlinked credit on every page where one of my photos appears. Acceptable HTML is
photographs courtesy <a href="http://sehi-smith.com/">Stephen and Susan S. Sehi-Smith</a>
That way people know who created the image 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 our images 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 (on every page where a photo appears)
You do not need to pay for usage, either, though we reserve the right to deny usage on sites that we 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 our images enhance your site, then please make a charitable donation to http://members.petfinder.org/~NM71/helping.shtml, a no-kill animal shelter in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Note: remember that most of the pictures of people on our 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.

Use of photos and Web pages in print

If you're a non-profit organization and want to use one of our images in a printed brochure or magazine, you can do so at no charge with a "Photo courtesy http://sehi-smith.com" credit. 

If you're a musical group and want to use one of our images for a CD cover, you can do so at no charge with a "Cover photo courtesy http://sehi-smith.com" credit in the liner notes.

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 ours under the following conditions:

  1. the URL is legible in the capture or separately printed in a caption
  2. a small credit is printed reading "Photos courtesy http://sehi-smith.com"
  3. send me email informing me of the usage

If you want to use a photo in a for-profit print project, e.g., magazine article, advertisement, book, brochure, etc., please contact us via email. It will help if you include the full URL of the image on our server.

Paintings/Drawings

Artists are welcome to use these images as a basis for a drawing or painting in exchange for a credit. If an image of the artwork is displayed on the Web, credit should be a hyperlink to http://sehi-smith.com with a note "Partially based on a photo from http://sehi-smith.com". Otherwise the same note can be used in a printed description of the work.

Bounty

If you see one of our images in a magazine 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, we'll send you a free print for your wall.

Text and Stories

Please feel free to redistribute via hardcopy or email for noncommercial purposes any of our writings, but please don't break up documents (except by chapter) and please attribute the source in such a way that someone can find the most up-to-date version on the Web.

Please do not ever copy any of our (text) content to a public Web server. Link to our pages instead. We guarantee not to break any of your links. The problem with you putting a page on your server is that the search engines will find it and send my readers to your server instead. Thus they will be deprived of my latest content and service innovations.

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