General Terms and Conditions

Digital Image Processing

Digitalising analogue images and transmitting digital images by remote data transmission or on data media is only admissible if and insofar as exercising the rights of use conferred requires this form of reproduction and dissemination.

Image data may only be digitally archived for the customer's own purpose and only for the duration of the right of use. A separate agreement between the photographer and the customer is required for storing the image data in online databases or in other digital archives accessible to third parties.

During the digital recording of the images, the name of the photographer must be electronically linked to the image data. Furthermore, the customer is obliged to ensure, by taking suitable technical precautions, that this linking is preserved during every transmission of the data, when the image data are transferred onto other data media, when the data are reproduced on a screen and during any publication, and that the photographer can always be identified as the creator of the image.

Liability and Compensation

The photographer is only liable for damage which he or his agents cause by deliberate acts or gross negligence.

The photographer assumes no liability for the type of use of his images. In particular the photographer is not liable for the admissibility of the use under competition or trademark law.

In case of the unjustified use, change, reworking or passing on of an image, the photographer has the right to demand a contractual penalty.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply hereto.

In the event that the customer has no general place of jurisdiction in the Federal Republic of Germany or if he relocates his registered office or normal place of residence abroad after entering into the contract, the place of residence of the photographer is agreed as being the place of jurisdiction.