Copyright, Usage, and Purchase Information

Our images are all available for sale in print form. Images and video are also available for licensing for use in publications, display on the web or for other uses. All photographs, video, and text appearing in the Reef Images web site are the exclusive property of Doug Segar and Elaine Stamman Segar.

All photographs and videos in the Reef Images web site are copyright protected. The photographs and videos may not be reproduced, copied, stored, manipulated, republished electronically or in print without the written permission of Doug Segar or Elaine Stamman. NO images on the Reef Images web site are within the Public Domain. Use of any image as the basis for another photographic concept or illustration is also a violation of United States and International Copyright Law (see https://www.copyright.gov/title17/ ).

PLEASE NOTE: All images and videos on this site are registered at the U.S. Copyright Office. What does this mean? If you use these images without permission, our attorneys can sue you for a reasonable permission fee, AND for any legal costs AND for punitive damages.

To purchase prints, or obtain permission to use any of our images, please contact us. Please specify your intended use in as much detail as possible. Please note that we do not allow the use of our images by individuals or non-profits without a fee.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 international License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

What does this Creative Commons Licence mean? You are free to use the book except that you can not use the book or any part of it for any commercial purpose including personal financial gain without written permission from the author. Uses that require written permission include, but may not be limited to, sale for profit, advertising use, or use as an incentive to purchase any other product. If you transmit or transfer the book to anyone by any means, you must attribute the book by at minimum citing the author, title, and ISBN number. Also, you can not alter, transform, or build on the work.

Most images and artwork contained in the book are copyrighted to the author (or others) and you may not use any of these in any way, except in your use of the book itself, without written permission from the copyright holder.