Copyright Notice

from Dan Myers
All the text and pictures on this Web server are © Copyright 2003 - 2005 Dan Myers.

Here are the terms of my blanket license...

Printing of photos for personal use

If you want a copy of one of my pictures to stick on your fridge or use in a school project or cover a crack in your wall, then please feel free to print anything you like from my site.

Non-commercial Web use of photos

If you have a personal home page or non-commercial Web service, please feel free to use my photographs with hyperlinked credit. Acceptable HTML is
photographs courtesy Dan Myers
That way people know who took the picture and also can find my on-line copyright statement. You do not need to pay for usage. Just build the best Web site you can and give it back to the community.

Commercial Web use of photos

If you would like to use my pictures on a commercial page, then please do the following:
  1. register the URL with me (sending email is fine)
  2. add the hyperlinked credit as above
You do not need to pay for usage, either, though I reserve the right to deny usage on sites that I find to not be keeping with my philosophy.

Note: remember that most of the pictures of people on my pages are not model-released. Advertising usage of photos (e.g., brochures, catalogs, print ads) is very different from editorial usage of photos (e.g., newspaper and magazine articles, books). You cannot use pictures in advertising (e.g., an on-line product brochure or anything else that is selling) without getting a model release from any person whose image is recognizable in the photo. You might also have problems if an image contains a recognizable physical property, e.g., Disneyland. One of the reasons advertisers pay \$1000+ for images from stock agencies is that those agencies have generally already gotten the relevant releases.

Text and Stories

Please feel free to redistribute via hardcopy or email for noncommercial purposes any of my writings, but please don't break up documents (except by chapter) and please attribute the source in such a way that someone can find the most up-to-date version on the Web. And please link to the front page only, as the site is very apt to change.

Please do not ever copy any of my (text) content to a public Web server. Link to my front page instead. The problem with you putting a page on your server is that the search engines will find it and send my readers to your server instead. Thus they will be deprived of my latest content and updates.

Use of photos and Web pages in print

If you are doing a story, book, or CD-ROM about the railroads, compressed air locomotives, or anything train related, you are required to contact me via e-mail to discuss the planned story or photographs.

If you simply want to use my photographs to illustrate an article that is not about my Web pages, e.g., you just want a Porter locomotive photo to go with a story on industrial engines, then that is commercial usage, you are not covered by any of these blanket licenses, and you should send me email with a proposal. An exception to this is free publications put out by non-commercial organizations; you guys can use whatever you want with credit as above.

© Copyright 2003 - 2004 C. Daniel Myers