Terms of Use & Copyright

This website is operated by Mirela Bichigeanu, a visual artist based in Bucharest, Romania. These Terms of Use apply to your access to and use of mirelabichigeanu.ro and all content made available through it.

By accessing or using the website, you acknowledge these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not copy, download, reproduce or otherwise use the website content.

These terms do not limit any rights or exceptions granted by applicable law.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, all photographs, photographic series, self-portraits, artworks, texts, essays, notes, project descriptions, curatorial materials, graphics, design elements and other original content published on this website are owned by Mirela Bichigeanu and are protected by Romanian, European Union and international copyright laws.

The publication of content on this website does not transfer, assign or license any copyright, moral right or other intellectual property right to the visitor.

The absence of a visible copyright notice on an individual image or page does not mean that the work is free to use or has entered the public domain.

You may access and view the website for personal, informational, educational and non-commercial purposes.

You may share a link to a publicly accessible page of the website, provided that the link does not misrepresent the work, its authorship or its context.

Any use beyond ordinary website viewing or sharing a link requires prior written permission, unless the use is expressly permitted by applicable law.

Without prior written authorisation, you may not:

• copy, download, reproduce, republish or distribute photographs, texts or other protected materials;
• post website images on social media, blogs, publications, portfolios, databases or other websites;
• crop, edit, retouch, recolour, animate, transform or create derivative works from the photographs;
• remove or alter a signature, credit, watermark, caption, metadata or copyright notice;
• use any content for advertising, commercial, promotional, editorial or merchandising purposes;
• include the work in exhibitions, presentations, publications, films, videos, courses or teaching materials without permission;
• reproduce or sell prints, posters, digital files, products or other items incorporating the work;
• suggest endorsement, collaboration or affiliation with Mirela Bichigeanu where none exists;
• use automated systems to extract, scrape, archive or systematically reproduce website content.

Providing the artist’s name or a link to the website does not replace the requirement to obtain permission.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no photograph, image, text, artwork, metadata or other content from this website may be collected, scraped, reproduced, extracted or used for:

• training, developing or fine-tuning artificial intelligence models;
• building or enriching machine-learning datasets;
• image recognition, image generation or style-simulation systems;
• text and data mining or automated content analysis;
• creating embeddings, synthetic data or derivative datasets;
• generating works intended to imitate the artist’s work or visual language.

This provision constitutes an express reservation of rights for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and equivalent provisions under applicable national or international law.

Any such use requires a separate, prior and explicit written licence. This reservation does not affect uses that cannot lawfully be excluded, including any mandatory statutory exceptions.

Requests to reproduce, publish, exhibit, distribute or otherwise use a photograph or text must be submitted in writing before the proposed use.

A licensing request should include:

• the title or URL of the requested work;
• the intended use and context;
• the publication, organisation or project involved;
• the territory, media and duration of use;
• the expected publication or exhibition date;
• whether the proposed use is commercial or non-commercial.

Permission is valid only when confirmed in writing and may be subject to a licensing fee, credit requirements and other agreed conditions.

Licensing enquiries may be sent to contact@mirelabichigeanu.ro .

Information about available works, editions, sizes, materials and prices is provided for general presentation and may be updated without notice.

Unless an online checkout and specific sales conditions are provided, displaying a work as available does not constitute a binding offer or automatically reserve the work.

The acquisition of a physical artwork or photographic print transfers ownership of that physical object only. Copyright and reproduction rights remain with the artist unless a separate written agreement expressly provides otherwise.

Availability, edition details, payment, delivery and any other conditions will be confirmed individually before an acquisition is finalised.

Where third-party names, trademarks, quotations, publications or other materials appear on the website, the relevant rights remain with their respective owners.

The website may contain links to external websites, publications, institutions or social media platforms. These links are provided for information and do not imply responsibility for, endorsement of or control over external content.

External websites are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

Reasonable care is taken to present accurate information about artworks, exhibitions, projects, publications, teaching activity and available works.

However, website content is provided for general information and portfolio presentation. Information may be corrected, expanded, removed or updated without prior notice.

Colours, tones, proportions and details displayed on a screen may differ from those of an original artwork or physical print because of device settings, image compression and viewing conditions.

Reasonable efforts are made to keep the website accessible and secure. Continuous or error-free access cannot be guaranteed, and the website may be suspended temporarily for maintenance, security or technical reasons.

To the extent permitted by law, Mirela Bichigeanu will not be liable for indirect or consequential losses arising solely from the use of, or inability to access, this website or an external website linked from it.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law.

These terms and any dispute relating to the use of this website are governed by the laws of Romania and the applicable legislation of the European Union.

Subject to any mandatory consumer-protection or jurisdiction rules, disputes that cannot be resolved amicably will be submitted to the competent courts of Romania.

These Terms of Use may be updated to reflect changes to the website, artistic activity, services or applicable legal requirements.

The current version will be published on this page together with the date of the latest update. Continued use of the website after an update is subject to the revised terms.