Colours & Notes

Any use of resources offered here is only allowed as long as this does not infringe the rights of third parties in an illegitimate way.

Specifically, I explicitly forbid the retrieval of photos of buildings or other works, which might themselves be protected by copyright law, by users or programs from countries, or any other transfer of such photos into such countries, where taking photos of such buildings or works, and the spreading of the resulting depictions, is NOT allowed by respective exceptions in copyright law, or by the decision that the legislation of the home country of the photographer is applicable.

As the state of legislation and its implementation are complex, and the subject of much controversial discussion even among experts, and technical measures like geo-blocking are difficult to set up to conform with legislation just because legislation is complex - but afterwards, can be almost immediately and trivially circumvented even by the most simple VPN services - but nevertheless, providing photos or other works in the WWW, nowadays, appears to be the sole feasible and practically relevant way to present any own artistic or creative work - and moreover, any factual distribution or reception of any data provided for use on the Internet will occur ONLY AFTER any use of a client program which is designed to achieve this - and the user has a much better chance than myself, to know the applicable legislation in their own country - the explicit limitation of any permitted use to what conforms to applicable legislation and does not cause any damage to third parties in the situation of any possible user (which I cannot universally anticipate) appears to be the only rational way I can see, to protect the rights of third parties and at the same time, still be able to provide an adequate selection of content while keeping the interests of all possibly involved parties in a reasonable balance.