These licensing terms relate to our photo, video, and information graphics collections, which are offered free of charge to journalists, news organizations and non-profit organizations for editorial use.
Copyright and image licensing
Copyright is always retained by the creator(s) and distributed via a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license designed to protect the rights of all concerned, including the licensee. If you have any doubt about the legality of your use, please contact us at waterdesk@colorado.edu to request further information.
Usage rights
When an image is licensed from The Water Desk, the usage is specified in the Creative Commons license and cannot be used for any other purpose without further agreement by The Water Desk. The license is for editorial and non-profit use only. No commercial or re-sale use allowed without the consent of the creator(s).
Image manipulation
Photographs must not be altered or manipulated in any way. However, cropping and overlaying text or annotation for editorial purposes, for example, are allowable.
Captions
All images must be used with or in the spirit of the accompanying caption. If there is any doubt, then verification should be sought before publication.
Credit lines
All images are released for editorial and non-profit use only. The photographer must be credited with any reproduction of their work.
After publishing
- Please notify The Water Desk by emailing waterdesk@colorado.edu
- Provide a link to the page featuring the licensed image(s), or a description of the use if in print
- Verification of image use is critical for The Water Desk to continue to offer photographs free of charge and help us raise additional funds to support photojournalists and water journalism.
