Licensing & Copyright

British Columbia Photos is in the business of licensing rights-protected stock photography images for application in editorial, corporate and advertising reproduction and in the business of selling finished fine art archival prints. These images are NOT royalty-free images or clip art.

Copyright

All images, in whole or in part, on this website are legally protected from unauthorized use, under international, Canadian and US copyright law, by British Columbia Photos.

To view the collection you must agree not to publish, use in other websites or copy as photographs or artwork in commercial applications without agreement from British Columbia Photos.

Copyright Infringement

British Columbia Photos will be entitled to a compensatory fee equal to the greater of U.S. $1,500 or ten (10) times the usual License fee for each unauthorized commercial use by you of any Image. "Unauthorized use" means any reproduction that is not specifically granted in the license by British Columbia Photos, or any reproduction for which a license has not been paid.

License Agreements

All license agreements must guarantee that you have supplied true and accurate information to British Columbia Photos to fully describe the manner in which the image will be used, including the correct name and type of business of the end user of the image. The end user is the ultimate beneficiary of the license. ( ie. The end client is the entity who represents the image in their promotion, not the ad agency, designer, web developer or any other intermediary..)

Any image or images covered by the License is and will remain the exclusive property and copyright of British Columbia Photos Copyright notice and image identification codes which appear in the image file must remain with digital copies of the image at all times.

No rights will be granted to that image until a license has been issued by British Columbia Photos. Rights to use and reproduction of any and all images will at all times be subject to and governed by the specific terms of license issued by British Columbia Photos.