Copyright

  • All images, videos and texts on sallytrace.com are copyrighted © 2000-present by Sally Trace.

  •  All rights of reproduction belong to the artist Sally Trace.  Do not copy, make derivative works or use Sally's art, written words or photographs in any way without first obtaining written permission.  Always ask first, please.

  • If you wish to license Sally's art for printed or other published works, please use the contact form below or send an email to obtain permission. I've had my art used by organizations to represent spiritual, uplifting and diversity-inclusive concepts including biodiversity, and I'm especially receptive to licensing my art for these types of uses.

  • Please do not pin my images to Pinterest.

  • Image rights holders have a legal right to remove their images from any website that has published a copyrighted image without permission, including Pinterest and other image sharing sites.  And we have good reason to do this because stealing occurs via scraping, copying and hot linking, and it can spin out of control very quickly.  When this happens, it causes an artists work to appear to be in the public domain, and then the infringements can proliferate like wildfire.

  • This is my livelihood, and I work hard to protect my copyrights.

  • If an unauthorized copy gets posted on the internet or in any other public place without permission, it is considered infringement and will be removed whenever possible, regardless of the intentions of the infringer.  Always ask first please.

  • Copyright infringement is not a victimless crime.  It devalues the art and robs the artist of valuable time and especially of inspiration, because every new creation will require countless future unpaid hours of work to keep the thievery even a little bit under control.

  • If you see Sally's art being "sold" anywhere other than on www.sallytrace.com or Pixels/Fineartamerica.com, then know it is likely fraud. Many fraudulent websites use art to entice their victims to click. They hotlink our artists images from our websites, Pinterest and other legitimate websites in order to come up in search results for an artists work.  In addition to preying on their consumer victims, the scammers also harm an artists ability to sell our art on the web.

  • ... so be careful where you click please.  I'm doing my best to have scammer websites that steal images removed from search results, but they pop up faster that I can remove them.  Please be careful because the big search engine does nothing to protect users from clicking on links using stolen art images that redirect to scammer websites.  There are a huge number of these fraudulent websites on the internet today.

  • For art teachers especially, please educate your students in regard to copyright.  Just because an image is on Pinterest, that does not mean it is free to use without permission.  Only the rights holder of that image has the right to use, copy or reproduce a copyrighted work of art for any purpose.  Derivative works are also bound by copyright.  Artists are entitled to earn income and benefit from reproductions of their own work; other people are not.  Always ask for permission first please, for any living artist. If your students become artists when they grow up, do you think they will want to have some control over how their images get used and abused all around the planet?  Of course they will.  Please teach them to respect the copyrights of living artists.



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