Terms of service
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Overview
All images produced by Blackhall Media Group are copyrighted and are our intellectual property. We offer licenses for these images based on the package you select. Our goal is to safeguard the interests, intellectual property rights, and livelihoods of our company and photographers.
MLS compliant products and packages: Real estate agents or clients receive Temporary Usage Rights to use these images until the property is sold, rented, or otherwise removed from the market. To reuse images for more than one listing, permanent usage rights must be purchased.
Once a property is sold, permanent usage rights must be obtained to continue using the images for marketing purposes.
Purchased images and MLS compliant products are non-transferable and cannot be given away, bartered, or sold. Only the client who pays for the images has the rights to use them. For instance, a realtor who pays for images cannot pass them to the builder, designer, remodeler, stager, etc., associated with the property.
Credit must be given to Blackhall Media Group for any images used.
Contact Blackhall Media Group to inquire about Permanent Usage Rights pricing.
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What are “Temporary” Usage Rights?
These rights are typically used for MLS listings.
You (the realtor/agent who purchased the images) may use the images until the property is sold or taken off the market. Blackhall Media Group must be credited for any images used on your blog or “Just Sold” marketing materials.
After the property is sold, if you wish to continue using the images for marketing purposes, contact our office to arrange payment for permanent usage rights. The amount previously paid for each photo will be credited towards your purchase, and you can obtain usage rights for as many photos as needed.
Do not share images with anyone who has not obtained permission or made a separate payment to Blackhall Media Group.
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What are “Permanent” Usage Rights?
What it means:
Want to feature them on your website? In a magazine ad? On a billboard? On your blog? On promotional items like coffee mugs? Permanent usage rights grant you this flexibility.
Permanent usage rights allow you to use the images in any way you want. However, the images still remain our copyrighted property. You cannot sell, transfer, or give away the images to others.
Each client who purchases permanent usage rights is authorized to use the photos for their own marketing purposes only.
What happens if you use copyrighted images without permission?
We utilize a rights management system to identify Blackhall Media Group images online and verify if they were legitimately obtained. If not, we will require the image user to do one of three things:
Remove the images from the site/source within 24 hours.
Correctly credit Blackhall Media Group as the photographer for each image.
Pay for permanent usage rights to continue using the images indefinitely for all marketing purposes.
Copyright infringement is a serious matter for our photographers and our business. Anyone using our images without permission or proper payment will receive a Cease and Desist order.
If unauthorized images are found on NTREIS/MLS, we will notify NTREIS for immediate removal from MLS, or issue a Cease and Desist order to the offending parties.
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Learn More About Copyright Laws:
For information on US copyright law, please visit the United States Copyright Office website.