DETAILED TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Governing Download and Use of Images

• By viewing the website, you agree and understand that the text, graphics and digital images on the site are the property of DDB Stock Photography and the professional photographers represented by the agency. Every image on the site is protected by the US Copyright Act of 1976, incorporated provisions of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and the Digital Millennium Act of 1998 that incorporates the 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty. You may not download, display, or use images from the Website in any manner not indicated above without permission.
• Our contributing photographers spend thousands of dollars on equipment, film, travel, processing, and captioning to create and make these images available. They rely on the proceeds from the lease of these images to support themselves and their families. However:
• you may download images freely if you are a professional photo researcher, photo editor, or art director, but you will need passwords to display and work with the high resolution TIFF images. Call 225-763-6235 or email info@ddbstock.com for passwords and additional information on the images. Pricing guidelines are available HERE. As a courtesy, we provide watermarked comps that you can download and use for in-house layout and composition.
• Images prepared for download are 300 dpi at dimensions previously agreed upon. Clients may request digital images at 300 dpi up to 16 x 24 inches. Images are left up for download on our site for a period of 7 days to ensure you have sufficient time to download your selections. All digital images set-up for download are strictly rights managed and may not be used until a pricing and usage agreement has been negotiated. Many clients have pre-negotiated prices or program rates and may use downloaded images within the scope of the existing agreements, provided purchase orders are sent to DDB Stock Photography for such usage.
• Please delete the original image file after use or save it in an extremely secure location on encrypted hard drive or off the network on CD or DVD media. Please ensure such files are coded to DDB Stock Photography so their provenience is not lost. Digital high resolution files are digitally coded to the project, client, and requester. Protection of copyrighted digital files are the clients responsibility. The client must take all reasonable precautions to ensure high resolution image files from DDB Stock Photography are not copied and reused in any manner by any other entity or third party without permission from DDB Stock Photography. If they are, then proprietary, invisible watermarks that reference the original project, company, and requester will be traced back to the original submission and an invoice will be submitted for the unlicensed usage.


Double click the image at the URL previously identified to start file download. Select save to disk and direct the download to the appropriate subdirectory on your computer. Please contact us immediately if there are any problems with high resolution digital image files set-up for download so we can resolve them.

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DDB Stock Photography makes every effort to provide accurate information on the site, but that does not ensure that there are not inaccuracies of fact, misspellings, typographic errors or other mistakes on the site. We suggest rigorous fact checking prior to use and shall assist in any way possible.

DDB Stock Photography makes no implied or overt indication that model releases exist for every image on the site that depicts people, property, art or other renderings. Hence, it must be assumed that none of the images displayed have any model release until such time as one has been confirmed through direct contact with the agency.

There are a small number of images of unclothed indigenous peoples and nudity depicted in artwork by Latin American artists on the site. These images may be offensive to some and inappropriate for viewing by others. Should you be offended by nudity, then you should not view the images on the site. Should you choose to do so, then DDB Stock Photography takes no responsibility for any emotional or psychological sufferings you may experience as a result.

DDB Stock Photography takes infringement of the copyright law very seriously and prosecutes infractions. Individuals, companies, institutions, governmental agencies, non-profits, or other entities that use our images unlawfully, without payment and permission, shall be prosecuted to the fullest degree allowed by law and the law currently provides for fines up to $125,000 per infraction.

Our photographers make their living leasing the images depicted on the site and they are not Royalty Free or are they placed in the Public Domain.

Contact DDB Stock Photography for additional information. We provide a printer friendly PDF file here that includes all terms and conditions that govern usage of images on our website.