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Copyright Notice

and advice on using photographs, from Gary Benson

All the text and pictures on this web server are copyright Gary Benson unless explicitly stated otherwise. This document describes how you may and may not use the photographs on this web server.

Printing of photos for personal use 

If you want a copy of one of my pictures to stick on your wall or use in a school project then please feel free to print anything you like from this site. You will get the best quality if you seek out the high-resolution images: most photos have a link that says something like "also available as a 1500x1000 JPEG for printing". Follow those links to get the big pictures. If 1500x1000 or thereabouts is not enough then mail me and I'll see what I can do. Most of the images are available as negative scans, but at 30Mb each I don't have room for them online.

Personal web use of photos 

If you have a personal home page or a non-commercial web service then please feel free to use my photographs with a hyperlinked credit. The easiest way to use one of my pictures is:

  1. Copy a thumbnail image (suffixed with .1.jpg) from my site to your server.
  2. Insert this thumbnail as an image on your page.
  3. Make the photo on your page clickable, linking it to my HTML page with its larger version, title, description, copyright and other information.
  4. If your site uses frames, please include target="_top" in all your links to my site. This stops my pages being trapped inside your frames.

Doing this kills many birds with one stone. You are spared the time, effort and diskspace required to make present the images, your readers get a nicely presented image which can be viewed in multiple sizes, and I get my credit.

If you want to present my images in any other way then an explicit hyperlinked credit is required. Acceptable HTML is:

Photographs courtesy <a href="http://inauspicious.org/">Gary Benson</a>

That way, people know who took the picture and can find this copyright notice. Once more, if your site uses frames, please include target="_top" in all your links to my site.

Use of photos by commercial and non-commercial organisations 

Please contact me via email with a proposal.

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