COPYRIGHT INFO

All the text and pictures on this Web server are copyright 1970-2005 Jonny Fido. No text or pictures can be used by any other persons or organization unless you agree to the terms below:

Printing of photos for personal use
If you want a copy of one of my pictures for putting up in the office or fridge, 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:
photographs courtesy <a href="http://www.jonnyfido.com/">Jonny Fido </a>
That way people know who took the picture and also can find the 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, like Phillip Greenspun.

Commercial Web use of photos
If you would like to use my pictures on a commercial page, then please do the following:
1 send 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 I reserve the right to deny usage on sites that I'm not crazy about.

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 www.jaconline.org, the New Jersey Animal Coalition, a wonderful animal shelter in South Orange, NJ.

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.

Use of photos and Web pages in print
If you're a non-profit organization and want to use one of my photos in a printed brochure or magazine, you can do so at no charge with a "Photo courtesy http://www.jonnyfido.com" credit. For reproductions of any size you probably want to reproduce from the original scan (I can give you 300 dpi approx. 7x10"). For this, you're going to have to email me by clicking on "CONTACT" at the top of the page and I'll have to prepare a file for you.

If you're a musical group and want to use one of my photos for a CD cover, you can do so at no charge with a "Cover photo courtesy http://www.jonnyfido.com" credit in the liner notes. If you can afford to send me a copy of the finished product, email me and I'll give you my mailing address. Maybe you could send me a check when it goes platinum.

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.jonnyfido.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. Let me know which image/images you wanting to use and we'll set the wheels in motion.

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.jonnyfido.com with a note "Partially based on a photo from http://www.jonnyfido.com". Otherwise the same note can be used in a printed description of the work.

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 and please attribute the source in such a way that someone can find the most up-to-date version on the Web.

This copyright notice was copied and adjusted for my own needs, but is based on Phillip Greenspun's copyright page. I don't know him and I'm probably breaking one of his copyright rules by using this, so Phillip, if you're reading this, I hope you don't get angry. Your wording is pretty good on this type of stuff. Plus, you're a darned good photographer. Anyway, you've been a big help to me, both in copyrighting and photography. Thank you.