GENERAL TERMS OF SALE


Recitals

The articles of these general transfer conditions apply in full to any person placing an order or downloading one or several files from the Follmishop.com website. These general conditions therefore aim at defining the relations between FOLLMISHOP and the customer. The conditions hereafter are formally binding on the signatories of this transfer agreement. Each signatory declares that he/she holds the necessary representation powers


Article 1 – Transfer of the rights

The photographs distributed by FOLLMISHOP are not royalty-free and their ownership is not sold by FOLLMISHOP. Only the reproduction, representation and exhibition rights are transferred. The transfer price is assessed in accordance with the use on the basis of a price scale taking into account the type of the project and the reproduction format.
FOLLMISHOP makes the photographs from its documentary fund available to the customer. These general conditions apply to the digital documents downloaded, those ordered on CD-Rom, and to orders of physical documents (Ektachromes or prints)
Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by FOLLMISHOP, the transfer of the reproduction, representation and exhibition rights is only granted, on a non-exclusive basis, for one use or publication in one language only, in one country, for one purpose regardless of the format and for a limited period. Exclusivity may only result from a written agreement from FOLLMISHOP and will lead to a separate distinctive invoice, not based on the usual scale.
All reprints, new publications or transfers to another format or to a database of the digital or physical documents are forbidden, unless agreed to previously by FOLLMISHOP. The customer is strictly forbidden from transferring or lending the images belonging to FOLLMISHOP's documentary fund to another person

Article 2 – Copyright and image rights

All photographs or reports are considered as a creation, protected by the French and international laws regarding intellectual property. Photography work in particular is subject to law no.57.298 of 11th March 1957, the Code of Intellectual Property enacted by law no.92.597 of 1st July 1992, the European Directive CD 93/98/EEC and to personal privacy rights and image rights. Any reproduction of a photograph belonging to FOLLMISHOP, without the latterís specific and prior consent, is an infringement as regards the law, and will lead to criminal and civil penalties.
As FOLLMISHOP only transfers to the customer the representation and exhibition rights of its photographs, the latter is responsible for ensuring that he/she has the creatorís or designerís consent on the object represented. Only the customer is responsible for the use of any image provided by FOLLMISHOP. Failure for the customer to respect the copyright, image rights, personal privacy rights, and third-party rights may lead to the customer bearing all consequences of the same, and the customer hereby undertakes to relieve and guarantee FOLLMISHOP for any sentence that may be pronounced against it, in this respect.
All reproductions and/or representations must include a "signature" indicating the name of the photographer, the name of the architect in the case of a building represented and that of FOLLMISHOP. In the case of omission, the reproduction and/or representation and/or exhibition fees corresponding to the reference scale in France or to the transfer price indicated by FOLLMISHOP, will be automatically doubled, as decided by mutual consent.

Article 3 - Research and communication of the images

In the case of communication by FOLLMISHOP of an original photograph to the editor, any loss or damage will be compensated for, independently from the reproduction fee that the editor undertakes to pay upon simple invoice and will be assessed in accordance with the value of the photograph.

Article 4 - Proof of publication

The customer undertakes to send FOLLMISHOP full publication proof, thirty days at the latest after communication to the public, or to send an order form when no proof can be supplied (publicity, documentary film …) from which FOLLMISHOP will draw up an invoice of the non-exclusive reproduction and/or representation and/or exhibition rights, according to the scale on the day of sending the publication.

Article 5 – Settlements and penalties

The invoices are payable thirty days after the end of the month of the invoice, unless otherwise indicated on the invoice.
Should the customer not regularly respect his/her payment obligations and after formal notice remaining unanswered after a maximum period of eight days, FOLLMISHOP reserves the right to suspend all access to the website and the supply of images to the customer, without the latter being entitled to claim any compensation whatsoever. In all cases of failure to pay, the procedural costs, expenses and fees incurred by FOLLMISHOP for collecting the payment of its services will be claimed in accordance with the terms of article 700 of the New French Book of Collective Procedures. Unless previously accepted by FOLLMISHOP, the parties specifically agree that failure to pay an invoice on its due-date will lead, ipso jure, regardless of the payment means, to the application of a minimum interest at 1.5 times the legal rate fixed by decree on 1st January of each year. FOLLMISHOP may invoice to the customer any expenses incurred by it in relation to unpaid invoices.