DDB STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC

PICTURES OF LATIN AMERICA

Our Policy on the use of Government Images and Historical Pictures

We collect pictures of Latin America from disperate public sources including images collected or curated by the U.S. Government. In good faith, we reproduce images on the website that were produced by the U.S. government and are not governed by U.S. copyright protection and images that were published before 1922 and hence, are no longer protected by U.S. copyright law. DDBSTOCK is not aware of any copyright protection or other restrictions on any image reproduced on the website.

We archive digital images of Latin America from various Nasa collections, FEMA collections, WPA collections, public university collections, state government collections, and collections maintained by the Library of Congress. We save and protect the digital files in our repository, which is not affected by federal budget constraints or ideology of the moment that might result in their removal or destruction. Our public collections are immune from actions and mandates that remove digital images from Federal Government and transitory public Web sites.

We charge a fee for reproduction of the public images that we archive. Every image archived represents well over $100 in research, circuit cost, storage, secure backup, and documentation. We do not claim copyright to any public images. If they are still available when you read this, then you may access them in the collections identified in our caption and source information. Should you need to acquire them from ddbstock, then you will need to pay a fee to support our ongoing archival research program and the associated Information Technology costs incurred.

We provide hyperlinks below to usage conditions published by the institutions represented in our collections. We are not their agents and we operate entirely outside their control. Registered trademarks and other protected material on the Web sites of the institutions included remain the exclusive property of those institutions and may not be used without their permission.

We rely on caption and ownership information provided on the public Websites and can take no responsibility for the accuracy of such information. We refer you to contact information provided in the hyperlinks to our sources below.