Terms of Use

Creative Commons Licence

We are releasing the photographs contained in this website under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

This licence allows you to:

    • BY (Attribution): Copy, distribute, display and perform our copyrighted work – and derivative works based upon it – but only if you give us credit in the way we request: © The UPLB Museum of Natural History

    • NC (NonCommercial): Copy, distribute, display, and perform our work – and derivative works based upon it – but for non-commercial purposes only.

    • SA (ShareAlike): Distribute derivative works only under a licence identical to the licence that governs our work.

Use of Images

The UPLB Museum of Natural History encourages the dissemination and use of information about our collections for non-commercial activities. The UPLB Museum of Natural History considers the following to be non-commercial activities (this list is not exhaustive):

  • Use in free-entry, educational lectures (or in activities promoting free-entry lectures)

  • Promotion of any non-commercial activity

  • One-off classroom use

  • Reproduction within a thesis document submitted by a student at an educational establishment (an electronic version of the thesis may be stored online by the educational establishment as long as it is made available at no cost to the end user)

  • Use in websites as long as they are informational, academic or research-oriented and not linked to any commercial activity

  • Display within a free-entry public space (including museums and galleries), as long as the use is not promoting a product or a service

  • Educational and classroom use within an educational establishment or in the course of formal instruction

For the avoidance of doubt, we consider the following to be commercial activities (this list is not exhaustive):

  • Anything that is in itself charged for, including textbooks and academic books or journals

  • An individual's website or blog that is used as a platform to promote or conduct commercial activities (for example, to sell products created by or services provided by such an individual)

  • A commercial organization's website or blog, including trading arms of charities

  • Freely distributed leaflets or merchandise that promote goods or services

  • Corporate stationery or any business communications such as annual reviews

  • Free-entry events, presentations or lectures promoting a product or a service

  • Displays in public places offering or promoting a product or service