Copyright notice and Terms of Use

Summary

• QT Luong owns the copyright to all photographs and text on this site (unless mentioned otherwise).
• No images are within the Public Domain. All images are copyrighted and registered with the US Copyright office.
• Our policy is similar in spirit to "Creative Commons Non Commercial", although more specific:

1. Besides "fair use", images may be used for free without requesting permission in the following cases:
   • sample, design, test, or layout use with no public display and for a duration not to exceed 14 days ("comp use")
   • personal, non-commercial, private use (see B.1)
   • personal use on websites with no direct or indirect commercial purpose subject to posting attribution/copyright notice and linkback (see B.2)
2. All-volunteer organizations may obtain a free license after approval by email (see B.3)
   
3. Conplimentary licenses may be provided to illustrate writing about QT Luong's work
4. All others will need a paid license. See how to license images.
   

Do NOT call on the phone to request a free permission. Such requests will not be granted.

For explanations, see about our free use policy.

A. Paid license required

• use on behalf of ANY organization which has paid personnel (INCLUDING NON-PROFIT)
• use in your professional work
• use for advertising, editorial or promotional purposes (including any fund raising activities and auctions),
• use on a commercial, advertising or self-promotional web site,
• use on a product that is sold, or contains paid advertising.

• sample, design, test, or layout use ("comp use"), for the purpose of evaluating how a finished piece would look, with no public display and for a duration not to exceed 14 days
• fair use (a complex matter where misinterpretation may expose you to a copyright infringement claim).

If you wish to reproduce any image for professional or commercial purposes, please check licensing information to learn how you can promptly receive a permission to publish and high resolution digital file. Licensing fees start at $150 (most licenses cost more). No free licenses are granted solely in exchange for credits or links.

B. Free uses

B1. PRIVATE USE for personal, non-commercial purpose is free

• Personal student schoolwork such as reports
• Emailing a copy to a friend
• Screen saver or background image on your computer
• Printing a few images on your printer for decor or scrapbook ( consider getting a much nicer photographic print from us)
• Making derivative artworks such as paintings and drawing just for yourself - not to be sold.

B2. Web use for personal, non-commercial purpose requires proper credit and backlink

1. the image is not altered by any means, including cropping of the identifying information,
2. you provide on the same page a active link to www.terragalleria.com. Display of the (required) border imprint "© QT Luong/terragalleria.com" is not enough. You must add a link to terragalleria.com. Example of appropriate code:
   <a href = "https://www.terragalleria.com"> photo by QT Luong/terragalleria.com</a> all rights reserved
   No license is granted until attribution is given, and the license is automatically revoked if attribution is removed.

Any other image uses REQUIRE written authorization, in particular:

B3. Use for all-volunteer organizations (not the same as "non-profit") requires written permission

C. Other

You are always encouraged to make a link to any of the web pages (html files) included in this server without any restriction. On the other hand, please do not embed images into a web page, that is have a direct ("hot") link (img src) to any image (jpeg file).

Note: We have given careful thought to those terms of use, which evolved over time after receiving a considerable number of requests for free use. Permission is hereby granted to other photographers to reuse the contents of this page or further modify it, provided that a link to this page, or the terragalleria.com homepage is given as acknowledgement.