SkiPaintings Copyright Information

All imagery on this site is copyrighted to Matt Elson 2006. No images may be used or reproduced without written permission. Permission may be obtained by writing to admin@skipaintings.com.

All the text and pictures on this Web server are copyright 2003-2006 Matt Elson.

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 a hyperlinked credit on every page where one of my photos appears. Acceptable HTML is

SkiPainting courtesy Matt Elson

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 SkiPaintings Imagery

If you would like to use my pictures on a commercial page, then please do the following:

1. Contact me as to the intended use.
   
2. register the URL with me (sending email is fine)
3. add the hyperlinked credit as above (on every page where a photo appears)

You do not need to pay for usage, though I reserve the right to deny usage on sites that run counter to the spirit or phillosophy of SkiPaintings or that seek to exploit the imagery for commercial gain without a formal agreement between our companies.

Use of photos and Web pages in print

If you're a non-profit organization and want to use one of the SkiPaintings in a printed brochure or magazine, you can do so at no charge with a "SkiPainting courtesy http://www.skipaintings.com" credit.

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. the URL is legible in the capture or separately printed in a caption
2. a small credit is printed reading "Photos courtesy http://www.skipaintings.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 me via email. It will help if you include the full URL of the image on my server.

Paintings/Drawings

Artists are welcome to use these photos 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://www.skipaintings.com with a note "Partially based on a photo from http://www.skipaintings.com". Otherwise the same note can be used in a printed description of the work. This is about a shared learning experince and is not an invitaion to exploit the SkiPaintings commercially.

Bounty

If you see one of my pictures 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, I'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 my 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 my (text) content to a public Web server. Link to my pages instead. I 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.

Copyright Reference

This copyright page is based on the page published by Phillip Greenspun and can be found at: http://philip.greenspun.com/copyright Thanks Phillip for letting me liberally borrow from your work. ~Matt

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