Wednesday 17 November 2010

rules and regulations

• What is Royalty-free license by Wikipedia
• What is Rights Managed license by Wikipedia
• About Copyright by Wikipedia
• About Moral rights by Wikipedia


A royalty free license is a copyright license where the user has a one time right to use the photos without restrictions, the users can therefore use the image for several projects without having to purchase an additional license.

Rights Managed is a copyright license which, if purchased by a user, allows the one time use of the photo as specified by the license. If the user wants to use the photo for other uses an additional license needs to be purchased.


Copyright is a set of rights being granted by the law of a jurisdiction to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute or adapt the work.
Exceptions and limitations to these rights strives to balance the public interest in the wide distribution of the material produced and to encourage creativity.

Moral Rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recongnized in civial law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions.

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