Notice: All of the artwork and images of works of visual art represented on this website, and the literary works and other text shown on the website, and all other aspects of the website, including each image, digital file, graphic image, document & all elements, selections, and arrangements, are copyright © Koya Abe 1997-2024. All rights are reserved. The works of visual art, images of the artwork, and literary works cannot be reproduced, distributed, displayed, transferred, transmitted, copied, or used to create any derivative work without express written permission of the copyright holder except as required by law.
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A Note to Visitors: Please contact the artist's representative to request permission to the use any images for any publishing purposes, including all online and any reproduction in print, or any other proposed use, and for any questions that you may have regarding rights, the artist, or the artwork. Following below is additional information about general use policies. The artist welcomes requests from educators, researchers, writers, curators, and others. We will try to respond to your request as soon as possible. Thank you.
Licensing Requests in General
Editorial and press uses: For editorial and other publication based uses that require high resolution or "clean" images and related issues, please contact the artist’s representative to request licensing permission. Please include information about the intended use and media (online or print, preferred resolution, file size or dimensions, etc.) with anticipated dates of use and a response will be made as soon as possible. We will try and meet your deadline, but please contact us at least a week in advance whenever possible.
Education related uses: Please contact the artist’s representative for any questions about the artwork and/or to request licensing permission when applicable. The artist is generally welcome to educational uses. Please describe your intended use and the images you are interested in. A response will be made as soon as possible.
Personal & all others: For any proposed use or for any questions, please contact the representative for information and/or to request licensing permission when applicable. If in doubt, please send us an e-mail and a response will be made as soon as possible.
Commercial uses of any kind are not permitted without the artist's agreement and the express written authorization of the artist/copyright holder or his legal representative.
AI: At this time, all uses for or related to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) are strictly prohibited. A primary reason for this restriction is to protect the artist's rights and the integrity of the work. Your understanding and cooperation is appreciated. See the lower part of this page for more detailed information.
For any and all uses, including but not limited to any and all licenses that may be granted by the artist and any use that is solely provided or required by law, a copyright notice must be clearly visible on the face of the artwork, or if printed, either on or directly adjacent to the image, stating in clearly readable text that the image is copyrighted, the © mark, the artist's name (Koya Abe), and the year of original creation. This applies to all uses of the material on this website, all artwork created by the artist, and any reproductions, display, dissemination, transfer, transmission, derivative, or copy of the artwork that is/was acquired from any source, and any artwork or material provided by the artist for a licensing purpose, unless otherwise authorized by the artist or his legal agent in writing. Regardless, nothing stated or implied here is a license. If you would like to request permission, please send an email with your information. Limited quotations from the artist's statements may be reproduced for press and educational purposes so long as it is attributed to the artist. Thank you for your cooperation and for your support of artists' rights.
In each and every case, the artwork may not be used for any purpose that furthers or promotes violence in any form or discrimination against any person or persons based upon their actual or perceived race, ancestry, nationality, citizenship, religion, sex, gender, orientation, age, or ability status.
AI policy and requirements: Any use for, related to, or involving Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is strictly forbidden. Use of any of the artwork, text, or other material on this website, and including the same, copies, or representations of the artwork, text, or material obtained another source, is strictly forbidden for any purpose involving AI. This prohibition includes any other similar type of system, process, computer program, digital process, or any subsequent developed technology that uses the the artwork, text, or other material without prior permission in written form from the copyright holder. There is no implied license, nor any license in fact. Any use for the purpose of training a system, program, application, or process of any kind; for scraping or data mining; or any process, system, application or program that generates visual or textual materials from, or derived from, such source materials, including but not limited to the generation of visual or textual materials based upon the artwork, text, or materials, is prohibited. Any use of prompts or key words that use the titles of the artworks, the artist or author’s name, or other identifying features of the artwork, text, or website material to generate or display or disseminate a work not authorized by the copyright owner of the source material is strictly prohibited. The same restrictions apply to any third party user of such technology. Display, dissemination, or any use of any material, visual image, or text generated from the artwork, text, or other material in such manner, involving AI or a similiar process or system, is prohibited. All such non permissible uses may be subject to legal action. The reference herein to “artwork, text, or other material” refers to each and every image, depiction of artwork, literary and textual content, graphic material, and other content represented, reproduced, displayed or disseminated by or within this website (www.koyaabe.com) and the same restrictions apply irrespective of whether the pertinent matter is obtained from this website or another source. If you have a proposed use that you believe is unique or different, please contact us with your proposal information for consideration.
Data mining, third party website publishing/social media re-publishing sites: There is no license, no implied license, nor any type of license or permission granted to any website, individual, organization, or internet based entity that engages in data mining or mines images or image files, scrapes, copies, reproduces, disseminates, or displays without express prior permission from the copyright owner, any image of the artwork, literary work, text, or other material authored by Koya Abe, his heirs or assigns, including but not limited to matter that may or has been taken from social media, this website, or another website, database, file, application or any source. Such acts are prohibited without the prior express written permission of the copyright owner and unauthorized uses may result in legal action. This prohibition applies regardless of the source from which such material is or was obtained. Any license that may have been granted by the copyright owner to a social media site or service provider is not transferable for any other purpose nor to any other party or purported party.
If in doubt, please contact us first. Thank you for respecting the artist's rights and the integrity of the work.
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