Copyright

A few legal bits

All of the information, such as text, notes, photographs, audio and video clips, fragments of programming code, compiled binaries and other content and any elements on this website, as well as its overall design are copyright © Aleksander Gorkowienko. All rights reserved.

No permission, either express or implied, is granted for the electronic transmission, storage, retrieval, or printing of the content, including photographs contained on artfulbytes.org, other than that which is related to the normal “caching” practices of web browsers and activities such as downloading solely for your personal enjoyment. No parties/individuals visiting or viewing images from artfulbytes.org, may otherwise copy, modify, publish, transmit, or distribute the contents found herein. Express written permission must be granted by the copyright holder, Aleksander Gorkowienko, in order to use any materials from this website for any purpose: commercial or non-commercial. Without prior permission, you cannot copy or reproduce any image or any other content from artfulbytes.org for any reason, be it personal, educational, non-profit, or commercial. It is important to know that under all circumstances, copyright always remains with the original author/photographer. Please remember that copyright is protected under international law.

If it is discovered that you have used copyrighted materials in contravention of the licence above, legal proceedings may be brought against you seeking monetary damages and an injunction to stop you from using those materials. You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.

If you wish to use any materials from the website, please contact theartfulbytes[@]gmail.com (remove brackets). The materials such as photographs from this website could be available for commercial use upon contact and agreement.

More about images: a fragment from the Copyright Act of 1998

1. No copyright photograph may be copied without the permission of the copyright owner.
2. Photographers hold copyright in their own work unless agreed otherwise.
3. The situation is different for employed photographers who create work in the course of their employment, here the copyright belongs to the employer.
4. Photographers have the right to assert their moral right to be credited as the author of a photograph.
5. Photographers have the right to object to the treatment of their photograph that distorts, mutilates or is otherwise damaging to their reputation.
6. Copyright duration is usually 70 years from the end of the year in which the author dies.
7. It is the responsibility of the user/publisher to check that they have permission, are within the terms of any licence, or are acting within the fair practice or other permissions granted by law.
8. Unauthorised copying of a copyright image including downloading images from this website or failure to give credit are infringements of law and as such can be subject to criminal sanctions such as a fine or imprisonment or civil sanctions such as claims for damages, accounts, delivery up or injunctions precluding one's use of the images.