Terms and Conditions of Submission and Reproduction of Pictures

"We/Us" means Visit London.  "You" means the person or entity allowed registered access to www.visitlondonimages.com and the images herein.

These terms and conditions apply to all users of this site and those handling any images obtained from this site.  These terms supersede any terms and conditions of purchase you may have.

NO VARIATION OF THESE TERMS OR CONDITIONS SHALL BE EFFECTIVE UNLESS AGREED IN WRITING.

"Image" means any item which may be offered for the purposes of reproduction (including where appropriate a Digital Image).

Supply of Images

1.    By registering and using a login and password to access and download images on this site you are entering into a binding agreement between you and us.  If you are a freelance researcher working on behalf of a publisher this agreement applies to you and your principal.  If you do not wish to be bound by this agreement please e-mail us to that effect within 24 hours and we shall delete your username and password so that you cannot access the database.  Downloading of any material using your username and password will be deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.

2.    All images and information provided on this site are the property and copyright of Visit London or our suppliers.  The moral rights of Visit London and all authors of the works represented on this site have been asserted.

3.    You must pay a non-refundable service fee to cover administrative costs and despatch of Images on each submission and re-submission of Images if reproduction rights are not required or granted. We will deliver Images to you by the most appropriate safe method which affords proof of delivery, and may invoice you for the delivery costs.

4.You may download/save low-resolution "watermarked" images from this site for evaluation and comp/layout purposes only.  You may NOT use watermarked images in any final products for distribution in printed or electronic format either inside or outside your company without prior written permission from us.  You may not modify or remove any visible or invisible electronic watermark.  You may not redistribute or sublicense any image supplied by us or downloaded from this site.

5.If you wish to download unwatermarked layout and/or high-resolution images you must provide accurate information during our registration process.  Your registration is personal to you and you are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of your Login and Password details.  You may not allow others to use your login and password to access this site and you agree to take all reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised access.  You will be held responsible for any charges arising from downloads of material from this site by third parties using your login details with or without your permission.  Upon completion of our registration process you may use copies of the Images on this site subject to these terms and conditions. In downloading a high-resolution Image you agree to be charged a download fee at our discretion and to pay the appropriate licence fee for any use of that Image according to our terms and conditions.

6.You must adhere to any stipulations or restrictions that may be attached to downloaded Images (in the IPTC information fields, readable using Adobe Photoshop's "File Info" and other types of software).  These may include such warnings as "Editorial Use Only".  In such a case the use of the Image for a non-Editorial purpose (eg. advertising) is not permitted and by accepting our terms you undertake to indemnify us and our suppliers against any legal action or other costs which may result from such unauthorised use.

Supply of Images in transparency,  printed or cd-rom format

7.    "Return Date" is the date by which the Images must be returned as specified on the delivery note or licence.  If no date is specified, the Return Date shall be eight weeks from the date of the delivery note.

8.    You must pay the rental fee specified in the delivery note until we receive the Images back. Payment of the rental fee does not entitle you to retain any Image after its Return Date (only chargeable if Images not returned when requested by us).

9.    You must return Images to us by a safe method which affords proof of delivery. You must arrange adequate protection for Images in transit. You must enclose a delivery note detailing and totalling the returned Images and must send a copy of that note by separate post, fax or email.

10.    You must immediately notify us in writing of any loss or damage. You must pay us compensation for each image lost or damaged at the rates specified on the delivery note which are a genuine pre-estimate of the loss which we will suffer. Any Image returned without its mount or with its caption or other mount data missing or defaced may incur a replacement charge of £10. Payment of compensation does not entitle you to any additional rights in the material. An Image subsequently found must be returned immediately. If it is undamaged you will be credited with any compensation paid less a rental fee at the rate set out in the delivery note from the Return Date to the date the image is returned.

Licence for Use of Images

11.    The reproduction by whatever means of the whole or any part of any Image (including, without limitation, slide projection, artist's reference, artist's illustration, layout or presentation of Images) is strictly forbidden without our specific written permission. You must inform us of your proposals as to when and how an Image is intended to be used. We will then consider whether we would wish to grant a licence and, if so, on what terms.

12.    No reproduction rights are granted by virtue of delivery of Images unless expressly indicated. Your right to reproduce an Image arises only if (a) licence terms are agreed and (b) our invoice relating to the grant of such a right is fully paid. Any reproduction before payment of the invoice or outside the terms of any licence constitutes an infringement of copyright and also a breach of this Agreement entitling us to rescind and claim damages. You must indemnify us in respect of any claims, damages, costs or expenses we incur arising from any reproduction of any Image supplied to you.

13.    You must satisfy yourself that all necessary rights, model releases or consents which may be required for reproduction are obtained and that the use of any Image is not obscene, indecent, libellous or unlawful. We make no claim or warranty with regard to your use of content, names, text, people, trademarks or copyright material depicted in any Image and you will indemnify us in respect of any claims, damages, costs or expenses we incur arising from the use of any Image supplied to you.

14.    Reproduction rights (if granted) unless otherwise agreed in writing are

a) subject to these terms and conditions and any other terms and conditions set out in the delivery note and licence,

b) non-exclusive reproduction rights for single use only in the United Kingdom. A single use means reproduction in one size for one edition of a single publication, published in one language only.

c) strictly limited to the use, period of time and territory stated in the licence,

d) personal to you and not assignable by you to any third party.

15.    If we agree that you may license the use of any Image to any third party, you shall enter into an agreement with such third party to ensure that they are bound by licence terms restricting printing, copying, networking, multiple access or other use of the Images to personal use only, forbidding the assignment, resale, rental and lending of the Image and ensuring that credit is given to us and the author.

16.    You must credit us and the author if specified by us when an Image is used. If you fail to credit the Image an additional 50% of the original licence fee will be payable.

17.    Images shall not be altered or manipulated, added to, or have any part deleted without our prior written consent.

18.    You must provide us on publication with at least one complimentary copy of any publication in which the reproduction of the Image appears.

Digital Use of Images

19.    You acknowledge that Images are our valuable property, as are any digital images created from the Images ("Digital images").

20.    You may not create, store or transmit Digital Images without our permission except so far as is incidentally and wholly necessary to the process of producing items licensed by us. If permission is granted the following conditions apply:

21.    Each Digital Image created by you shall be recorded and labelled with the Image reference number used by us and our copyright credit information as an integral part of the image file, and held on an electronic database under your sole possession and control.

22.    Unless otherwise agreed, any Digital Image you create must not be greater in size than 640x480 pixels, 72ppi. Any use of the Digital Images shall be in a format designed so that it will not be possible to alter, manipulate, or adapt any Digital Image in any way during the normal course of using the product.

23.    You agree to destroy all Digital images including any pre-press or pre-production copies of the Images and any copies or records of the images held on a database within 90 days of the date of receipt of the Images or completion of the maximum production run, or expiry of the licence term, whichever is later.

Miscellaneous

24.    While we take reasonable care in the performance of this agreement, we shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by you or by any third party arising from use or reproduction of any Image or its caption. Damages for any other breach shall be limited to the licence fee paid by you.

25.    You must pay our invoice within 30 days of issue. However in the case of newspaper, periodical and broadcasting use only, if we agree in advance, you may pay by the end of the calendar month immediately following publication or use, or within six months of the issue of our invoice, whichever is sooner.

26.    If you do not pay in accordance with these terms then we may at our option rescind this Agreement and recover damages, or charge interest at the rate prescribed by the Law Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 from the date payment was due until payment is made.

27.    Any licence granted will terminate immediately if you (a) die; (b) enter into a voluntary or compulsory liquidation; (c) have a receiver appointed; or (d) fail to perform any of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions within 28 days of our giving you notice to comply. In the event of termination, all rights granted will immediately revert to us and any further exploitation of any Image shall constitute an infringement of copyright.

28.    Any publication right (as defined in the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996) arising from your use of any Image shall vest in us and you hereby assign all such rights arising to us.

29.    Our failure to exercise or enforce any of our rights will not be deemed to be a waiver of such rights nor bar their exercise or enforcement in future.

30.    Should any disagreement arise between us, we shall, if we both agree, first try to settle it by a mediation procedure recommended by the British Photographers' Liaison Committee.

31.    These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and the parties agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts, such jurisdiction to be exclusive, save for infringement of copyright or non payment of our invoices where it will be non-exclusive. However if our business address specified overleaf is in Scotland then those terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of Scotland and the parties agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts, such jurisdiction to be exclusive, save for the infringement of copyright or non-payment of our invoices where it will be non-exclusive.

© Copyright 2001 British Photographers' Liaison Committee/Finers Stephens
Innocent As agreed by BAPLA, AOP NUJ, MPA and the BFP.