In this day and age, copying any material off of the internet is as easy as it should be. And I celebrate this. I've grown up with "borrowing" from the swedish library. Something that has helped me develop talents to such a level that it could be categorised as being of worth for others.

Everything new is based on elements from the old. So when it comes to my work, I feel very strongly that my pictures should be freely available for personal use. That is why I use Creative Commons. Because it's the only way to make this clear. All my images are marked (literally) with this information, and meta data is included in processed files, which makes the copyright rules quite explicit when posted on facebook and the likes.

Creative Commons is a way to clarify how people can use other's intellectual property. The license that I use makes the following clarification:

You may copy my pictures if:

1. It is for personal use (or for a non-profit).
2. You mention the author, when publicly published.
3. You use the same license when you remix my work.

The official license is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). I love remix culture, so I encourage people to use the pictures for personal projects under the license mentioned.

For companies

Sadly some of you assume you can just use my works for your own benefit. Some organisations refer to making honest mistakes — not knowing international copyright laws when working with media, not knowing who the author is etc. I honestly have no way of knowing whether that is the case or not, and I chose not to take your word for it, because your word does not pay the bills.

If you don't know who took the picture, don't use it.

I've teamed up with photoclaim.com who helps me solve those kind of situations. So talk with the lawyers that I hired to deal with this on my behalf.

So this is a heads up. I'm much cheaper if you book me ahead, than simply copying my work. I'd love to work with you, so reach out, and let's work together.