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Restrictions
Restrictions allow you to prevent your images being used in a particular way. You may want to restrict the use of your images in certain territories, industries or for sensitive issues.
- You can only apply restrictions to Licenced images and not Royalty Free images.
- Restrictions cannot prevent a sale to particular customer or a client based in a particular territory.
Editorial use only
Set these restrictions to sell your images for “Editorial use only”:
- All Countries; Advertising/Promotion; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Consumer Goods; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Direct Mail/Brochures; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Display; All Medias; All Industries; All Sun-industries
- All Countries; Multimedia; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
- All Countries; Internal business use; All Medias; All Industries; All Sub-industries
Link to “Manage images” in “My Alamy”
Restriction management interfaceAdding restrictions
- Go to My Alamy.
- Under “Organise images”, click “Manage images”.
- If you set the image as Licenced (L) or Licenced Rights Protected (RP) you can add restrictions to a single image or a batch of images.
- Please note these are ways in which your image may not be used.
Further help
- Information on:
- The Alamy Forum - the answer may be there.