Virtual Oceania - Using Our Photos

Licences and conditions

Virtual Oceania includes the following websites: Virtual Australia, Virtual New Caledonia, Virtual Zealand, and Virtual Tonga. Virtual Oceania displays photos owned by us which we allow distribution outside of our websites under different licences.

Free photos for your website, blog, social network, homework, hardcopy, TV, DVD, CD.

We permit free use of our photos on your site by using our provided embed code, located just below each photo displayed in our photo sections. We do have restrictions on how many photos can be displayed on any project or website.

For use in a website:

• No more than 12 photos can be used in total.
• You must use the provided embed code just below the photo which you want to use. If you want to host one or more of our photos yourself, you can take out a license.

For analogue and digital mediums such as TV, CDs, DVDs, digital presentations

• No more than 12 photos can be used.
• You may copy these photos, but you must acknowledge the source of the photo/s, e.g., "Photo belongs to Virtual Oceania ".
• Provide the web address to our site or the page where the photo was taken.

For hard copy use

• No more than 12 photos can be used per project.
• Acknowledge the source of the photo/s, e.g., "Photo belongs to Virtual Oceania".
• Provide the web address to our site or the page where the photo was taken.

Licensing our photos

If you want to use our photos outside of the above restrictions, want to use more photos than allowed above, or want to use the original photo rather than the low res JPGs displayed, then you can contact us with your request, or purchase a license. A licence gives you Royalty-Free usage and you get the original file.

More information about our photos

About our photos

Our original image files are in TIF format and are 600 dpi. The resulting digital files sizes range from 4000 x 2800px and up to 7000 x 5000 px.

All our photos are available for licensing. Our parent company, Virtualtopiaowns the images. We are not an agency for other photographers meaning there are no complications in dealing with different photographers and any restrictions that photographers can place on their work. We have made the licensing and process as simple as it can be.

Our clients

Our images have been used by government agencies, private and public companies, non-profit organisations, education institutions, international news broadcasters, encyclopedias, advertisers, tourism operators, and individuals from all over the world. Our images have been used in calendars, brochures, magazines, books, posters, business cards, packaging, clothing, web sites, discs, and corporate presentations, etc.

If you are interested in licensing our images for use in your organisation, company or project, then all you need to do is choose a license to proceed.

See a list of organisations that have used our photos →

 

Sample photo

Creative Commons licences

Some photos on this web site use a Creative Commons licence. There are four types of Creative Commons license. All photos that use one of these licences will link to this page and the appropriate license with one of the following decriptive links:

Attribution
You are free to copy, distribute, display, perform, and remix the photo, as long as you give you credit to the owner of the photo.

NonCommercial
You are free to copy, distribute, display, perform, and remix the photo for non-commercial purposes only. You must give credit to the owner of the photo.

ShareAlike
You are free to create, remix, and make derivative works based on the photo, as long as you distribute the derivative work under this ShareAlike Creative Commons license. You must give credit to the owner of the photo.

NoDerivatives
You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of the photo — not make derivative works based on it. You must give credit to the owner of the photo.