FAQ - Licensing terms for the inclusion of photos from external sources

We acknowledge the copyright and licensing terms of photos from external sources which are uploaded into posts on the forum

We will always comply with them and request that our forum users do as well

We would normaly assume that the photos posted by our users are their own, or are published with consent, but where there may be doubts, Moderators will challenge them and if necessary remove the offending material.

Where the orginal source of the material requires attributuon, or other notice, then this must be provided

The terms for some of the external sources that are commonly used are included here for convenience

Your attention is also drawn to this UK government, Intellectual Property Office document, which provides a more detailed discussion of the issues

Copyright Notice: digital images, photographs and the internet

For the material sources below you may link back to this post, eg
"for License and Copyright go here" www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/h...ernal-sources#151388



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Britain from Above
The full text is here
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/legalities

Highlights include

Copyright

The images, information and data featured on this website are subject to Crown Copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights held by the Partners and Individual Contributors as indicated. There are also copyrights relating to the database itself and to the design, structure and code employed in the website.

Commercial Use, Distribution or Reproduction

No permission is given for any commercial use, distribution or reproduction in these terms. Please use the BUY option for these purposes and separate licences will be provided

Blogging Use

Permission is granted for limited distribution of specially prepared images. These are accessed by selecting the 'Download' button under each image.

These images are limited to 580px on the longest side and carry a special watermark. You may copy solely these watermarked images to a blog or personal web page as long as the page is freely available with no login restrictions and no charges.

The following conditions apply: you must display the attribution which is contained in the watermark, you must not resize or crop the image, you may make no commercial use of the image or attempt to sell it, sub-license it or use it in any form of advertising. You must create a return link to the Britain from Above site.

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Imperial War Museum Collections
full text is here
www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/policies/privacy-copyright/licence

Highlights include

YOU ARE FREE TO:
copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information for Non-Commercial purposes except for film or sound recordings.
embed or link to any Information for Non Commercial purposes.

YOU MUST, WHERE YOU DO ANY OF THE ABOVE:
acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statements specified by IWM and any other third parties ( © ......) and where possible, provide a link to the source (eg. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/2143);

ensure that you do not adapt, manipulate, alter, crop or amend the Information in any way that changes the original;

ensure that you do not sell the Information or use it in a Commercial way by, for example, including it in your own product or application which is used in a Commercial way, or by using it for the purposes of advertising or promoting Commercial products;

Note that some collections of photos within the IWM collections have additional copyright and licensing conditions


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American Air Museum
Summary here
www.americanairmuseum.com/using-images-website/

Highlights

The licence which is applicable here is “CC-BY-NC”. You can find out more about it here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

This is an Attribution Non-Commercial licence, which means that:

All works must be attributed to its original creator

The licensee cannot use the work for commercial purposes

You can download good quality copies of the images on our site for your own personal use, or use in a non-commercial context.

If you use material from this website, please link back to us.

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Google Maps
Full Guidlines here
www.google.co.uk/permissions/geoguidelines.html

Some Hightlights

Generally speaking, as long as you’re following our Terms of Service and you’re attributing properly, we’re cool with your using our maps and imagery; in fact, we love seeing all of the creative applications of Google Maps, Google Earth and Street View! But we know you’re looking for more specifics to ensure that you’re using our maps and imagery correctly.

Fair Use
Apart from any licence granted to you by Google, your use of the Content may be acceptable under principles of "fair use". Fair use is a concept under copyright law in the US that, generally speaking, permits you to use a copyrighted work in certain ways without obtaining a licence from the copyright holder.

Attribution
All uses of the Content must provide attribution to both Google and our data providers. We require clear, visible attribution when the Content is shown. You may not move the attribution to the end credits or fade it out after a few seconds.

Note that if you embed a classic map, Street View panorama or My Map; use one of our APIs on the web or in an application; or export a video or JPEG from Google Earth Pro, the necessary attribution is already baked into the map and no further credit is needed.

Personalising your map
You may annotate our maps with additional information – like points, lines or labels. In fact, many of our tools have built-in features that make it easy to do just that.

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