General Terms and Conditions of Business (Customer)


The following terms and condition shall apply to customers’ use of the on-line platform (“adpic Platform”) provided by adpic Bildagentur1, Inhaber2 Baumann & Haid GbR3, Fraunhofer Str. 8, 53121 Bonn (Germany) (“adpic”):

¹ stock image agency
² owner
³ unincorporated civil-law partnership



1. Definitions

The following terms are repeatedly used in the General Terms and Conditions of Business and are defined as follows:

• “Media Contents” means photographs, graphics and similar contents.
• “Media Author” means the owner of the rights to Media Contents offered for licensing by the respective owner using adpic.
• “Customer” means entrepreneurial individuals and legal entities purchasing or wishing to purchase licenses to the Media Contents using adpic.
• “User” means Media Authors and Customers.
• “License” means the granting of rights of use as offered pursuant to section “Scope of the License Offer” hereof.

• the right to reproduce and distribute in print (e.g. books, leaflets, newspapers and magazines, letters);
• the right to reproduce and distribute via video and data media (e.g. CD, DVD, flash drives);
• the right to make the Media Contents available on the internet (e.g. on websites, in electronic documents, as well as presentations) up to a maximum dimension of 1024*1024 pixels;
• the right to perform, exhibit and broadcast (also as rebroadcast via cable or satellite broadcast) as well as for streaming from the internet or other webs;
• the right to combine the Media Contents with other works, including texts, other images, moving images and music, as well as having the Media Contents displayed by way of computer programs;
• the right to process and rearrange, especially the right to rearrange or otherwise process, personally or by third parties, as a whole or in part, the Media Contents or the processed Media Contents maintaining the protection of the author’s moral right, and to process the Media Contents in any other manner, whatsoever;

• the right to use Media Contents for the purpose of merchandising, i.e. for or in connection with the manufacturing and distribution of goods (such as calendars, posters, postcards, mouse pads, household articles);
• the right to relicense the Media Contents in processed form or in combination with other contents relating to the subject matter of the Media Contents (e.g. for website templates, press releases).

• use for or in connection with pornographic purposes or other services or products with sexual content such as sex lines and chats, escort service, pornography, etc.);
• use for avatars, “false” or thought-up identities (e.g. in singles dating agencies);
• use for or in connection with glorification of violence and racial hatred or in conflict with the law for the protection of children and youth;
• registration or use as a trademark or as business mark or part thereof;
• use for distortion (e.g. exchanging heads on bodies) and/or vilification of depicted persons or the Media Author.