Copyrights, General Terms and Conditions
General Terms and Conditions of Swiss-Image GmbH
- Swiss-Image GmbH publishes its partners' high resolution pictures on the Internet as a new kind of media service. This service is made available to the medias by leading Swiss tourism organizations, events, institutions, clubs, societies and companies (hereafter referred to as swiss- image.ch partner/s or SI partner/s).
- The SI partners distribute global or individual user names and passwords, that give access to the pictures of the SI partners. After the individual registration at www.swiss-image.ch every entitled media partner recieves a global or individual password, that enables the access to the entire or parts of the picture archive of swiss-image.ch.
- Global or individual passwords are only allowed to be used within the same editorial office. Apart from this group, further circulation of a password is prohibited.
- The download entitled medias (newspapers, magazines, tv-stations, news websites) and partners are allowed to publish pictures, that they have got from www.swiss-image.ch in their publication in the editorial part without paying a fee, as far as the general conditions of www.swiss-image.ch are not broken in any way.
- The obtained pictures of swiss-image.ch are not permitted to be stored electronically nor in any other form. The digital pictures are to be deleted the latest after 10 days from the (editorial-)computer or other electronical storage media.
- Pictures of swiss-image.ch are not allowed to be manipulated nor is it allowed to falsify the meaning of the picture in an image manipulation program. The central sense of the picture is not permitted to be changed.
- The download entitled medias and partners receive with the download the permission to publish the picture(s) once in the editorial part of their publication. Pictures taken from the TOURISMindex may be published only in editorial articles with a touristic context.
- Every published picture must carry the by-line (picture swiss-image.ch/photographers name) or (photo swiss-image.ch/photographers name) or (photo by swiss-image.ch/photographers name) or the name of the copyrightholder/photographers name or something similar. By-lines reading (picture made available by/ courtesy of) or (picture media service) are not acceptable.
- It is forbidden to duplicate the pictures of swiss-image.ch. It is also forbidden to trade the pictures, to circulate and sell them to photo agencies or to store them in a digital or analogous picture archive in order to resell them. News websites may not make any picture available for download (ftp or http download); pictures may be placed on the website with editorial content with a maximum resolution of 600 pixels (longer side of image).
- The use of swiss-image.ch pictures is prohibited for any other purpose (advertising, internet) without written permission from swiss-image.ch or the copyright holder (SI partner, photographer). The use of the pictures for advertising is in principle possible against payment of a fee. The picture fee will be arranged by the copyright holder.
- The copyright and any other right of the pictures and texts of swiss-image.ch.ch remain in any case at Swiss-Image GmbH, the SI partner or/and the originator of the pictures.
- Any misuse of swiss-image.ch.ch pictures will lead to an access stop to swiss-image.ch, in consequence to civil action under article 61 ff of the copyright law (Urherberrechtsgesetz URG) as well as a charge under article 67 ff URG.
- Everyone who logs in at www.swiss-image.ch with an user name and a password or gets other access to the picture archive of swiss-image.ch and downloads one or several pictures, automatically accepts the general conditions of Swiss-Image GmbH.
- The judicial authority is Davos, Switzerland. Swiss law is applicable.
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