Brad, Will and AbsoluteVisit believe that photos should be seen and not hidden in special places. After all, don't you take photo's to show others? Our licensing policies are in place to help balance the cost, time and effort that goes into creating and sharing our images with the desire to provide inspiration to viewers to travel our amazing world. AbsoluteVisit allows use of images in two ways:

All work on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

With Creative Commons you are free:

• To Share: Copy, Distribute, and Transmit the image
• To Remix: Create Derivative works of the image

Under these conditions:

• Attribution: Attribution to AbsoluteVisit must be made along with the image.
• Non-Commercial: The image must not be used for commercial purposes under any circumstances. For clarity on what defines commercial use, please see the Sample Accepted Uses below.

SAMPLE ACCEPTED USE OF THE CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE:

• Blog Post describing a recent trip
• Online article discussing the growing popularity of travel photography
• An individual using an image as a desktop background for their computer monitor
• A website for a school project about beautiful places around the world

LICENSE TO COPYRIGHT

‘Commercial Use’ regarding the use of images online or offline is defined very broadly. The determination of commercial or non-commercial use is based on the contextual use of the image. The determination is NOT based on the tax-filing status of the entity using the image nor on whether or not a financial transaction takes place.

Commercial use of our images is allowed only if expressly granted by AbsoluteVisit. All commercial uses will incur a licensing fee. Our fees are based on the following criteria:

• Media - print, web, television, etc.
• Distribution Size – number of copies printed, viewing audience size, exposure (regional, national, international)
• Length of Use – 1 year, 2 years, etc.
• Prominence of Display – 1/4 page, 1/2 page, full page, spread, front cover, back cover, home page (online), interior page (online), etc.

All licensing inquiries should be sent to: licensing@absolutevisit.com