FAQ -
Frequently Asked Questions
What is
stock photography or footage?
What does it mean
"Royalty-free"?
What can I do with a Basic
License?
What can't I do with a
Basic License?
What is
the Extended License for?
After paying the license fee, do I own the image's copyright?
Do you have any
limit for the images' usage?
What is your refund policy?
What is
stock photography or footage?
Stock photography/footage is photo/video that can be licensed for specific uses. Its use is very
popular with designers, graphic artists, art directors, advertising agencies, and marketing
professionals, in magazine advertisements, websites, and marketing brochures. Instead of hiring
a professional photographer to create an image. A collection of stock photography may also be
called a photo archive, picture library, image bank or photo bank.
An important feature of web-based stock photography collections is that the images have been
embedded with meta-data, therefore making the images searchable by using keywords.
What does it mean "Royalty-free"?
"Free" in this context means "free of royalties (paying each time you use an image)". It does
not mean the image is free to use without purchasing a license or that the image is in the
public domain. Features:
1. Pay a one-time fee to use the image multiple times for multiple purposes (with limits).
2. No time limit on when the buyer can use an image.
3. No one can have exclusive rights of a Royalty-free image (the photographer can sell the image
as many times as he or she wants).
4. A Royalty-free image usually has a limit to how many times the buyer can reproduce it. For
example, a license might allow the buyer to print 10,000 brochures with the purchased image. The
amount of copies made is called the print run. Above that print run the buyer is required to pay
a fee per brochure. Those magazines with a large print run cannot use a basic Royalty-free
license and therefore they either purchase images with an extended license or have in-house
photographers.
What can I
do with a Basic License? You may print or use the image for your personal
use in any size provided that there is no subsequent sale or transfer to other persons. The
high-resolution images that you download under the Basic License may be used to make fine art
prints, on web sites, in magazines, newspaper, products, software, newsletters, advertisements,
flyers, packaging, marketing material, school assignments, presentations, and within films or
videos, books or booklets, in either printed or electronic media, as long as the item in which
the image appears does not contradict any of the restrictions below. Note that the maximum
number of copies for printed materials is 10,000 copies. The high-resolution images that you download with the
Basic License also may be used as "editorial use" to illustrate truthful articles or broadcasts appearing in magazines, newspapers or any other editorial context, in either printed or electronic media.
Note, depending on your use, the use of editorial use images may require additional rights that
YOAQ may not be able to provide.
What can't I do with a Basic License?
Only With a YOAQ Basic License, you may not
use our images in products in which these images are dominant feature if the product is to be
subsequently sold or distributed. Examples include posters, postcards, greeting cards, mugs,
T-shirts, canvas, hats, mouse pads, magnets, art prints, paintings, or calendars, and
screensavers, web templates, software, web page builders, gallery, or any system where the image
file can be unincorporated from the software or system or be shared among, transferred to, or
otherwise distributed to a number of users. It is also forbidden to make the image available on
a website for download (as wallpapers for example). The use of YOAQ.com images for these
purposes under the Basic License is not permitted. In these cases, you should buy Extended
Licenses.
What is the Extended License for?
The following licenses offer extended types of usage for our Basic Licenses.
These are additional licenses to the rights included within the Basic Licenses. Note that the other restrictions still apply.
1.
Increase Max Copies: Extends our Basic Licenses to a maximum amount of printed copies of up to
1,000,000 copies.
2. Electronic Items for Resale: this license includes the right to use the images for web templates that are sold to more customers, screensavers, e-cards, powerpoint
presentations or as wallpapers on cell phones. Maximum number of electronic items is 10,000 copies
(applies as a total of each type of usage). If this amount is exceeded you need to acquire this
license once again. The new license will provide you with the standard amount of copies.
3. Physical Items for Resale: includes the right to use the photos for T-shirts, postcards, greeting
cards, mugs, mouse pads, posters, calendars, framed artwork that is to be sold to other customers
for a maximum amount of 10,000 copies (applies as a total of each type of usage). If this amount is
exceeded you need to acquire this license once again. The new license will provide you with the
standard amount of copies.
After paying the license
fee, do I own the image's copyright?
No!
Buying the high-resolution image (purchasing the license) does not transfer the copyright. You may not claim that the image is your own and you may not sell, license for use, or in any way distribute the image for reuse.
Do you have any limit
for the images' usage?
Of course.
Images may not be used as a trademark or service mark, in any way that violates civil and
criminal laws such as those regulating pornography, obscenity, fraudulent schemes,
counterfeiting, espionage, and aid to illicit activities, to defame a person, to violate a person's right to privacy or publicity, to infringe upon any copyright, trade name, trademark, or service mark of any person/entity. Unauthorized use of these Images constitutes copyright infringement and shall entitle YOAQ to exercise all rights and remedies under applicable copyright law, including an injunction preventing further use and monetary damages against all users and beneficiaries of the use of such Images. The foregoing is not a limiting statement of YOAQ's rights or remedies in connection with any unauthorized use.
What is your
refund policy?
Sorry, all images are intelligence products, they are NOT
refundable. |
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