Image Rights & Licensing
Every record in the archive states its own licence. The descriptive metadata — titles, dates, descriptions — is open to reuse and republication. Rights in the digitised images themselves are stated per record, on that record's page, and no broader permission is implied by their being published here.
The licences we use
- Public Domain
- No copyright applies. Anyone may use, adapt and republish the image for any purpose, without asking and without credit — though a credit line is still appreciated.
- CC BY 4.0 (Attribution)
- Free to use and adapt, including commercially, on one condition: credit the creator and the archive.
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (Attribution-ShareAlike)
- As CC BY — free use with credit — plus: anything you build on it must be published under this same licence.
- CC BY-NC 4.0 (Non-Commercial)
- Free for non-commercial use — teaching, research, journalism, blogs — with credit. Commercial use needs written permission.
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Non-Commercial, ShareAlike)
- Non-commercial use, with credit, and any derivative must carry this same licence. Commercial use needs written permission.
- In Copyright — All Rights Reserved
- The image is in copyright. Any republication or commercial use needs written permission, which you can request from us.
How to credit an image
When you republish an image, credit the creator and then the archive, and link to the record page. For example: "Photographer name / Alexandria Archive". Where no creator is known, the archive's name alone is enough.
Requesting permission or a licence
For commercial use, or any use beyond what a record's licence allows, write to us and we will reply: [email protected]
It helps to include: the record page URL or its identifier, what you intend to use it for, where it will be published (book, exhibition, website, film), and for how long.
Third-party rights and corrections
If you hold rights in material published here and believe a licence or an attribution is wrong, write to us and we will correct the record or take the material down.