CONTENT LICENSE AGREEMENT
This Agreement governs the terms by which members and clients of iStockphoto® obtain the right to use istockphoto's stock products. ( here images ) 1. Background of Agreement (a) This is a fairly lengthy document, and it contains many important provisions that affect your rights and obligations. By selecting the correct box at the end of this Agreement and typing “I Agree” or otherwise signifying your acceptance, you accept this Agreement either for yourself or on behalf of your employer or the entity that is identified as the member account holder, and agree to be bound by its provisions. If you do not have such authority or you do not accept or agree with these terms, do not accept the Agreement and do not download the Content. (b) In this Agreement: means you or, if you are accepting on behalf of your employer or member account entity, then “you” means that employer or entity and affiliates,or by any other means or in any media or other material that you are downloading from the Site, together with any accompanying material. (c) This Agreement is set up as a user-determined document where you will choose to enter into either our standard royalty-free content license or an extended license use of the Content. If you do not specify an Extended License or there is no Extended License option for the Content you have requested, your download of Content will be subject to the Standard License. 2. Standard License Terms All other rights in and to the Content, including, without limitation, all copyright and other intellectual property rights relating to the Content, are retained by iStockphoto or the supplier of the Content, as the case may be. 3. Permitted Standard License Uses (a) You may only use the Content for those advertising, promotional and other specified purposes which are Permitted Uses (as defined below). For clarity, you may not use the Content in products for resale purpose. (b) Seat Restrictions. Only you are permitted to use the Content, although you may transfer files containing Content or Permitted Derivative Works to your clients, printers, or ISP for the purpose of reproduction for Permitted Uses, that such parties shall have no further or additional rights to use the Content and cannot access or extract it from any file you provide. (c) Permitted Uses. Subject to the restrictions described under Prohibited Uses below, the following are “Permitted Uses” of Content: 1 - advertising and promotional projects, including printed materials, product packaging, presentations,commercials, catalogues, brochures, promotional greeting cards and promotional postcards (ie. not for resale or license); 2 - entertainment applications, such as books and book covers, magazines, newspapers, editorials, newsletters; 3 - on–line or electronic publications, including web pages to a maximum of 800 x 600; 4 - prints, posters (i.e. a hardcopy) and other reproductions for personal use or promotional purposes specified in (1) above, but not for resale, license or other distribution; and 5 - any other uses approved in writing by iStockphoto. 4. Standard License Prohibitions (a) Prohibited Uses. You may not do anything with the Content that is not expressly permitted in the preceding section or permitted by an Extended License. For greater certainty, the following are “Prohibited Uses” and you may not: 1 - use the Content in design template applications intended for resale, whether on-line or not, including, without limitation, website templates, Flash templates, business card templates, electronic greeting card templates, and brochure design templates; 2 - use or display the Content on websites or other venues designed to induce or involving the sale, license or other distribution of “on demand” products, including postcards, mugs, t-shirts, posters and other items; 3 - use the Content in any posters (printed on paper, canvas or any other media) or other items for resale, license or other distribution for profit; 4 - use any of the Content as part of a trade-mark, design-mark, trade-name, business name, service mark, or logo; 5 - incorporate the Content in any product that results in a re-distribution or re-use of the Content (such as electronic greeting card web sites, web templates and the like) or is otherwise made available in a manner such that a person can extract or access or reproduce the Content as an electronic file; 6 - use the Content in a fashion that is considered by iStockphoto (acting reasonably) as or under applicable law is considered pornographic, obscene, immoral, infringing, defamatory or libelous in nature, or that would be reasonably likely to bring any person or property reflected in the Content into disrepute; 7 - use or display any Content that features a model or person in a manner (a) that would lead a reasonable person to think that such person uses or personally endorses any business, product, service, cause, association or other endeavour; or (b) except where accompanied by a statement that indicates that the Content is being used for illustrative purposes only and any person depicted in the Content is a model, that depicts such person in a potentially sensitive subject matter, including, but not limited to mental and physical health issues, social issues, sexual or implied sexual activity or preferences, substance abuse, crime, physical or mental abuse or ailments, or any other subject matter that would be reasonably likely to be offensive or unflattering to any person reflected in the Content, unless the Content itself clearly and undisputedly reflects the model or person in such potentially sensitive subject matter in which case the Content may be used or displayed in a manner that portrays the model or person in the same context and to the same degree depicted in the Content itself; 8 - to the extent that source code is contained within the Content, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of such source code; 9 - remove any notice of copyright, trade-mark or other proprietary right from any place where it is on or embedded in the Content; 10 - sub-license, re-sell, rent, lend, assign, gift or otherwise transfer or distribute the Content or the rights granted under this Agreement; 11 - install and use the Content in more than one location at a time or post a copy of the Content on a network server or web server for use by other users; 12 - use or display the Content in an electronic format that enables it to be downloaded or distributed via mobile devices or shared in any peer-to-peer or similar file sharing arrangement; 13 - use the Content for editorial purposes without including the following credit adjacent to the Content: “©iStockphoto.com/Artist’s Member Name]; or 14 - either individually or in combination with others, reproduce the Content, or an element of the Content, in excess of 500,000 times without obtaining an Extended License, in which event you shall be required to pay an additional royalty fee equal to US $0.01 for each reproduction which is in excess of 500,000 reproductions. This additional royalty does not apply to advertisements in websites or to broadcast by television, web-cast or theatrical production. END ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO SELL OR BUY STOCKS How to sell ? You must be an iStock member before you can begin to contribute. ( Membership is free ), need a mail address and sign up. Then go to the sell stock page http://www.istockphoto.com/sell-stock-photos.php Click the "Apply" button for the file type you want to contribute and start reading the manual. Once you've learned the ropes, you just have to take a quick quiz. After you pass the quiz, you will be asked to submit three original samples of art. Keep that manual bookmarked - we want to see your very best work.
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