For the avoidance of doubt, all the images, text and graphics on this site are

by Alan Mackie

and are Copyright © Alan W. Mackie

and all Moral Rights are asserted.

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It is the legal responsibility of any person publishing anything to ensure that they are doing so legally and with the licence of the copyright owner. The law insists that you ask beforehand.

Additionally, it's not a defence to a claim for copyright infringement to plead that the image was supplied to you by another business, company or person. In the words of the law "it is immaterial whether any intervening acts themselves infringe copyright".

Like most other photographers any use of images or text copied illegally from this site will result in payment being sought to compensate for the infringing use.

Any business or individual publishing any image(s) or text copied from this website in any form or medium without seeking prior permission or paying for a licence to do so can subsequently expect a claim for at least £500 (five hundred pounds sterling) for any period of use for each and every separate instance of the use of each image.

If any unauthorised or unlicensed use fails to identify the copyright and moral rights owner of the image(s) or falsely attributes any image from this website to any other party, either as an individual image or as a general assertion, then the minimum claim will be at least £1,000 (one thousand pounds sterling) for any period of use for each and every separate instance of the use of each image.

Any person subsequently claiming copyright ownership of infringing material copied from others without permission is in line for even higher damages claims.

These same rates will also be applied to any text used under the same circumstances.

The normal charges for the use of our images and text are based on industry standard prices for high quality aerial photography and at present are in the region of £420 for website use and around £200 to £350 for other low to medium volume print uses. In all cases the copyright owner must be identified alongside the image or text use to avoid considerable extra cost.

You can see from the above that it is cheaper and a lot less trouble to seek permission before using any copyrighted material rather than afterwards.

We do not differentiate between commercial and non-commercial uses. The photographs cost us the same to produce regardless of the eventual use and that is reflected in the pricing.

Any request for licences for free use of our images or text will be refused.

In keeping with industry trends and common practice the IP addresses (their unique web and internet location) and other details of visitors to this website and the pages they have viewed are stored in website log files.

Details of this access are protected in the U.K. by the Data Protection Act.