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Acceptable use, in one screen.
The plain-English version of the rules every Mastline account agrees to. The Terms of Service control if anything here conflicts with them.
What Mastline is for
- Organizing, captioning, and selling photographs and video you took, or have the rights to license, in public places and at events.
- Pitching picture desks and buyers, running exclusives, issuing licenses, and delivering files.
- Recording sales you made elsewhere, invoicing, and tracking payment.
- Storing your archive and being told when something in it is newsworthy again.
- Finding where your images are used without a license and pursuing payment through lawful means.
- Working as a team, with roles and revenue splits you control.
What gets an account closed
- Uploading images you don’t own or have no right to license.
- Using Mastline to follow, harass, threaten, or endanger anyone, or to coordinate others to do so.
- Storing private addresses, private movements, or scraped private-account data as “tips.”
- Sexual or exploitative content involving minors, or any unlawful content. This is reported, not just removed.
- Presenting altered or synthetic imagery as genuine editorial photography, or faking provenance.
- Accessing another user’s account or data, probing the service, or abusing buyer contact information.
- Repeated copyright infringement, under Mastline’s Copyright Policy.
How enforcement works
Mastline reviews reports from buyers, subjects, other photographers, and Mastline’s own systems. Where a rule has been broken Mastline may warn, restrict features, suspend, or terminate, depending on severity, and Mastline tells the account holder what happened and why. Serious harm to any person is escalated immediately and, where required, reported to authorities. Decisions can be appealed by email to legal@mastline.co.
Reporting a concern
Photographers and buyers: support@mastline.co. People who appear in a photograph: see If you appear in a photo. Copyright: Copyright and DMCA Policy. Security: security@mastline.co.