Copyright and Intellectual Property. All photographic images, graphics, written text, layout, design and any other form of content found on this site and the websites of contributors linked from the Outimage website are all protected by international copyright laws. When someone downloads another person's work to use for their personal use without their consent, it is not only the income of the original artist that is affected. When their work is stolen, the spiritual component from the very heart of the artist (which ultimately provides the drive, motivation, and passion to produce the work in the first place), is also heavily impacted. Please also note that most if not all all photographs published on this site carry a digital watermark that allows for each image to be traced by a third party web crawler, designed to find them. Most photographic and written material found on the Outimage website and any linked collaboration member sites are usually available for commercial and media use. High quality prints from most of photographic content can also be purchased and all enquiries are welcome. Please go to the Contacts webpage for further information about contacting individual content providers.

Public Availability of digital files: The simple answer to this question is no. Digital files are not available for purchase by the general public. The Reason. Providing photographic content of subjects such as ocean yacht racing for example at a level that is presented on the Outimage website is very expensive. There is also a high level of risk of damage to photographic equipment with an enormous potential of permanent damage from salt water. Photographers contributing yacht racing photography to the Outimage site seem to do it more unfortunately for the love of the sport than lack of income it provides. Usually earning a living in other fields not only allows them to sustain their own existence but to also subsidise their passion to continue with photographing major yacht racing and other events. People often ask for digital files, obviously to print off as many prints as they want for themselves and friends at any size at a minimal expense. We have also had an individuals pretending to be media representives of a club in order to fraudulently obtain a digital file. And even the very low resolution photographs used on the Outimage website are not safe, as many often turn up within the pages of online forums with no credit to the photographer or any reference to the source website. None of this provides any contribution to a photographer who has put in an enormous effort just to get the shots in the first place. So before you ask about obtaining a digital file, please consider the above and be prepared to receive a simple reply containing the simple two letter word "no".