Katie Bricker Photography

Image Licensing Terms & Conditions

LICENSE TYPE: STANDARD LIMITED USE

Third-Party Image License Purchases
Effective Date: [September 1st, 2026]

These Image Licensing Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) govern the purchase and use of existing photographs created and owned by Katie Bricker Photography (“KBP” or “Photographer”) by any company, organization, or individual purchasing a license through a KBP online gallery, StudioLedger gallery store, invoice, or other electronic purchasing method (“Licensee”).

By completing payment for an image license, Licensee acknowledges that it has reviewed and agrees to these Terms. These Terms, together with the applicable gallery listing, pricing description, invoice, receipt, and any written license schedule issued by KBP, constitute the agreement governing Licensee’s use of the purchased photographs.

1. COPYRIGHT & OWNERSHIP

All photographs remain the sole copyrighted property of Katie Bricker Photography. Purchasing an image license does not constitute a sale of the photograph or transfer of copyright, intellectual property, ownership, RAW files, layered files, or other proprietary rights. Licensee receives only the limited usage rights expressly granted under these Terms and the applicable purchase.

2. LICENSE GRANT

Unless otherwise specifically stated at the time of purchase, upon receipt of full payment, KBP grants Licensee a:

  • Non-exclusive

  • Non-transferable

  • Non-assignable

  • Non-sublicensable

  • Worldwide

  • Perpetual

License to use the specifically purchased images for Licensee’s own business, marketing, promotional, public-relations, and portfolio purposes within the permitted uses described below.

The license applies only to the company or entity identified as the purchaser/Licensee. Affiliated companies, parent companies, subsidiaries, consultants, vendors, clients, partners, manufacturers, agencies, publications, or other third parties do not receive usage rights unless expressly authorized in writing by KBP.

3. PERMITTED USES

Unless otherwise stated in the applicable license listing, the standard third-party license permits perpetual use of purchased photographs for:

  • Licensee’s website and online portfolio

  • Licensee-owned social-media accounts

  • Internal communications and presentations

  • Email marketing

  • Printed marketing and sales collateral

  • Trade-show and presentation materials

  • Award submissions

  • Public-relations purposes, subject to the restrictions below

  • Limited editorial use in appropriate industry, trade, regional, or online publications

Use must relate to Licensee’s own business, services, participation in the photographed project, or other purpose expressly approved by KBP.

4. USES NOT INCLUDED

The standard license does not include:

  • Paid print, digital, social-media, or other advertising

  • Outdoor advertising, including billboards and transit advertising

  • Broadcast, television, streaming, or commercial video use

  • National or high-profile editorial use

  • Product packaging

  • Merchandise or resale products

  • Stock-image distribution

  • Resale or redistribution of the photographs

  • Use by affiliates or third parties

  • Use by manufacturers, dealers, representatives, consultants, vendors, or partner companies not named as Licensee

  • Artificial-intelligence or machine-learning uses

  • Any use materially outside the permitted purposes described above

These uses may be available under a separate license and may require additional fees.

Licensee should contact KBP before proceeding with any use not clearly permitted under these Terms.

5. NO THIRD-PARTY SHARING

Licensee may not provide, transfer, upload, distribute, or otherwise make the image files available to another company or third party for that party’s independent use.

This includes, without limitation, architects, designers, contractors, consultants, developers, owners, manufacturers, vendors, publications, public-relations firms, advertising agencies, dealers, representatives, affiliates, or project partners.

Interested third parties should be referred directly to KBP to obtain their own image license.

Providing a file to a service provider solely to produce an authorized use on Licensee’s behalf does not grant that provider any independent rights in the image.

6. SOCIAL MEDIA

Licensee may publish licensed photographs to Licensee-owned social-media accounts.

Other companies who did not participate in a cost-share agreement, may ONLY use a platform’s native sharing or reposting functionality to share Licensee’s original post when available, but may not independently download, screenshot, copy, repost, or publish the image without obtaining their own license.

All social media posts where the images are featured, Licensee should tag @katiebrickerphotography.

7. PHOTO CREDIT

Photo credit is required for:

  • Editorial use

  • Press releases

  • Award submissions

  • All social media publications

Credit should read:

© Katie Bricker Photography

For social media, Licensee should also include in the body of the post:

“Photo: @katiebrickerphotography”

Credit requirements do not create or expand any usage rights.

8. PUBLIC RELATIONS USE

Licensee may provide appropriately sized images to a public-relations professional or agency solely for the purpose of securing editorial coverage on behalf of Licensee.

The PR firm or agency receives no independent license and may not use the images for its own portfolio, website, social media, marketing, or other purposes.

Publications receiving images for proposed editorial coverage may use them only within the scope permitted by Licensee’s license and subject to required photo credit.

KBP may require a separate release or authorization for certain publication or award-submission uses.

9. ALTERATIONS

Ordinary cropping and reasonable resizing are permitted.

Unless KBP provides prior written authorization, Licensee may not:

  • Retouch or materially alter the photographs

  • Apply filters that materially change the appearance of the images

  • Add or remove architectural, landscape, design, branding, or other visual elements

  • Remove copyright, credit, or embedded metadata

  • Create derivative photographic works

  • Make deceptive or misleading modifications

KBP should be contacted for substantial image modifications or retouching.

10. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & AUTOMATED USE

Licensee may not use, authorize, upload, provide, or make any licensed photograph available for:

  • Artificial-intelligence or machine-learning training

  • Generative AI systems

  • Image generation

  • Generative fill

  • Inpainting or outpainting

  • Style transfer

  • Virtual staging

  • Image-to-video generation

  • Animation

  • Synthetic-content creation

  • Digital twins

  • Dataset development

  • Feature or data extraction

  • Other automated derivative uses

Any AI-assisted or automated use requires KBP’s prior written authorization and may require a separate license and additional fees.

11. PAYMENT & LICENSE ACTIVATION

No usage rights are granted until KBP receives payment in full.

Any publication or use of an image before payment is unauthorized.

Payment for an image license constitutes acceptance of the license purchased and these Terms.

Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, license fees are non-refundable once the licensed files have been made available for download.

12. IMAGE DELIVERY & FILE RETENTION

Licensed images are generally delivered electronically through a private online gallery or other digital-delivery method.

Licensee is responsible for promptly downloading and maintaining independent backups of purchased files.

KBP does not guarantee indefinite storage, archival retrieval, or future re-delivery of licensed images.

RAW files, layered working files, and other source files are never included.

13. LICENSE VIOLATIONS

Any use outside the rights granted by these Terms requires KBP’s prior written authorization.

Unauthorized use, sharing, reproduction, modification, sublicensing, or distribution may constitute copyright infringement and may require payment of additional licensing fees or other remedies available under applicable law.

Payment for one authorized use does not retroactively authorize any separate or previously unauthorized use.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the fullest extent permitted by law, KBP’s total liability arising from the licensed photographs or this license will not exceed the amount actually paid by Licensee for the applicable image license.

Neither party will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages except where such limitation is prohibited by law.

15. GENERAL TERMS

Licensee may not assign or transfer this agreement or any image license without KBP’s written consent.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain effective.

Failure by KBP to enforce a provision on one occasion does not waive the right to enforce it later.

These Terms and the applicable purchase documents constitute the entire agreement regarding the purchased image license unless KBP and Licensee enter into a separate written agreement.

If a separate written license agreement signed by both parties conflicts with these Terms, the signed agreement controls.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

16. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By completing payment for an image license via StudioLedger app, Quickbooks or any other payment application, Licensee acknowledges that it has reviewed and agrees to these Image Licensing Terms & Conditions, understands that Katie Bricker Photography retains all copyright and ownership of the photographs, and agrees to use the purchased images only within the license expressly granted.

For any questions, please contact us at: shootme@katiebricker.com