Licensing Options

Each photograph added to Konflictcam must be given a license during the UPLOAD process. If you are uploading someone else’s work, you must adhere to their licensing preferences. The eleven licensing options available on Konflictcam are described below.

Six Creative Commons Licenses:

Attribution Creative Commons

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of Creative Commons licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Attribution - ShareAlike Creative Commons

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

Attribution - NoDerivs Creative Commons

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution - NonCommercial Creative Commons

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike Creative Commons

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs Creative Commons

This license is the most restrictive of Creative Commons' six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Five Non-Creative Commons Licensing Options:

No Rights Reserved

This license enables owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law. This licensing selection applies to many government content sources.

No Known Copyright

"No Known Copyright" means that you the uploader are unaware of any copyright restrictions on the publication, distribution, or re-use of the particular photos you are contributing from a third party source. This is normally because: (1) The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired; (2) The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions; (3) The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or (4) The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

All Rights Reserved

This license indicates that the copyright holder reserves, or holds for their own use, all the rights provided by copyright law, such as distribution, performance, and creation of derivative works; that is, they have not waived any such right.

Fair Use

Fair Use is a limitation on copyright restrictions used in the United States. It is a case-by-case license where the following four factors must be considered in determining the validity of Fair Use: (1) The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) The nature of the copyrighted work; (3) The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work. Konflictcam will assess Fair Use submissions on an individual basis.

Custom License

Please use this license option if you have a specific copyright or attribution preference not covered by one of our other licenses. Normally, this will be a Terms of Use URL on a third party website, which we will test. The Custom License is a particularly useful license if you aim to sell rights for any re-distribution of your work and want to make transaction information easily available to potential buyers.