Effective Date: January 1, 2025

This website, including wphoto.co, billynewmanphoto.com, and wnp.app (collectively, the “Website”), is owned and operated by William C. Newman. Your use of this Website is subject to the following terms and conditions.

1. Compliance with Laws

You agree to comply with all applicable laws, statutes, rules, and regulations regarding your use of the Website, including, without limitation, intellectual property laws and privacy laws.

2. Protection of Intellectual Property and License

You acknowledge that all content available through the Website, including, without limitation, text, graphics, software, music, sound, photographs, and videos (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”), is protected by copyright law, trademark law, patent law, and/or other proprietary rights and laws.

  • All photographs displayed on this Website are the sole and exclusive property of William C. Newman.
  • All other content on this Website is owned by William C. Newman.

Except as expressly authorized by William C. Newman herein, you agree not to copy, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, license, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on the Website or any content available through the Website.

You are hereby granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited license to view content retrieved from the Website for your personal, non-commercial purposes only, provided that you do not remove or obscure the copyright notice or other notices displayed on the content.

Except where a commercial license is explicitly purchased or granted in writing by William C. Newman, you may not download, transmit, reproduce, copy, reprint, modify, rewrite, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, license, lease, transfer, or sell content retrieved from the Website in any way for any public or commercial use, or provide it to any commercial source (including other websites), regardless of whether you receive compensation, without the express, prior written permission of William C. Newman.

None of the material contained on this Website may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, stored in a retrieval system, translated, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo-reproduction, or otherwise), resold, or redistributed without the prior written permission of William C. Newman.

2.1 Commercial Licensing for Photography

All photographs by William C. Newman are available for commercial and editorial licensing on a Rights-Managed basis. This allows for the use of images in specific ways, tailored to your project’s needs, including but not limited to advertising, corporate, marketing, and editorial applications.

The limited license granted to general website viewers for personal, non-commercial use does not extend to any commercial usage.

To obtain a license for commercial use, please contact us directly with the following information:

  • The image(s) you are interested in.
  • A detailed description of the intended use (e.g., website banner, print ad, social media campaign).
  • The industry or client the image will be used for.
  • The desired usage duration and geographic territory.

Please direct all licensing inquiries to: william@wphoto.co.

Unauthorized commercial use of any image is a violation of federal copyright law and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent.

3. Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement (DMCA)

William C. Newman respects the intellectual property of others. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. Sec. 512), if you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information:

  1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
  2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
  3. A description of where the infringing material is located on the Website;
  4. Your address, telephone number, and email address;
  5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

Our designated Copyright Agent can be reached via email at: wn@wphoto.co

4. Limitations of Liability

YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WILLIAM C. NEWMAN BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, HOWSOEVER CAUSED, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY), OR OTHERWISE RESULTING FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE.

5. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. WILLIAM C. NEWMAN EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WILLIAM C. NEWMAN DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY THAT THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT ACCESS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

6. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless William C. Newman from and against any and all liability, losses, claims, demands, disputes, and damages of any kind, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from or connected with your use of the Website or your breach of these terms.

7. Severability of Agreement

If any provision of this agreement is found by a court to be invalid, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

8. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

This agreement and the resolution of any dispute related to it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States, including federal copyright and trademark laws, and the laws of the State of Oregon. Any legal action shall be brought exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction sitting in the State of Oregon, and you agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of such courts.

by William C. Newman :: updated on 9-1-2025