Copyright Statement

This copyright statement applies to all photography, images, and video found on this website, BirdLife365.com. Please read carefully before downloading, linking to, or printing copies for use.

© Copyright 2024 – BirdLife365.com.  All rights reserved.

I. Proprietary Rights

The photographs contained on this domain, are the property of Mark Washburn and KLM Publications LLC and are protected by United States and International copyright laws. All copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights in this site, are the property of Mark Washburn, KLM Publications LLC and BirdLife365.com

All Photographs on BirdLife365.com are copyrighted.

No permission, either express or implied, is granted for the electronic transmission, storage, retrieval, or printing of the photographs contained on BirdLife365.com, 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 tstark.com, may otherwise copy, modify, publish, transmit, or distribute the contents of the photographs found herein. Express written permission must be granted, on behalf of the photographer (copyright holder, Mark Washburn), in order to use these photographs for any purpose that is not outlined above.

Your use of BirdLife365.com or viewing of this statement indicates your acceptance of these conditions.

II. Personal Use Criteria

The following are a list of conditions where I, Mark Washburn, give individuals permission to link to (or copy) JPEG images and other material at no charge:

  1. You may print a copy of any photograph for personal reference without  further permission.
  2. Students are welcome to download images and incorporate them into school reports, presentations, etc. for free so long as proper credit/citation is given, without my further permission.
  3. Anyone can download images from Desktops / Wallpapers for the express use of displaying them on screen on any personal computer that is not being used for commercial or public viewing purposes.

III. Free Social Media and Web Usage Criteria

The following conditions define Mark Washburn’s authorization for sharing the photography, images and other copyrighted work to Social Media sites (i.e. Facebook, Instagram, etc.) and the Web, free of charge, as long the result of sharing is a link back to the original work on BirdLife365.com and its subdomains. Proper attribution of copyright must be given to BirdLife365.com and include the link to BirdLife365.com in said attribution:

  1. Sharing of the copyrighted work is for personal, non-commercial use.
  2. The copyrighted work must not be altered or changed in any way and, other than the snippet displayed as a result of sharing, must be presented in their original form.
  3. Copyrighted work can not be copied and pasted to other sites. The preferred method of sharing is to use the social media sharing widgets on BirdLife365.com.
  4. If you are preparing FREE online site guides for other photographers, bloggers, and photography forums, you may make use of these images, BUT ONLY IF YOU ATTRIBUTE THEM AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IV. Commercial Use

Those persons who wish to use the photography found on this site in a commercial fashion must receive written consent from me, Mark Washburn, prior to its commercial use. To obtain consent or get information on licensing fees, interested parties should send an e-mail to mark@birdlife365.com. In that e-mail the following should be addressed:

  1. Image(s) you would like to use
  2. Where they will be displayed
  3. How they will be displayed
  4. Intent of its display
  5. Duration of their public viewing
  6. Any other information you feel would be useful

Commercial use of any image or video, without prior written permission is prohibited and a violation of the United States and International copyright law.