POLICY

A. Purpose

Photographs may not be used for commercial purposes unless Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has considered and approved the use in writing. This policy details those steps.

B. Persons Affected

• Any Berkeley Lab employee or division interested in using images from WebDam, the Laboratory's image library
• Any outside, non-Berkeley Lab entity interested in using images from Berkeley Lab either via WebDAM or another source
• Any Berkeley Lab employee with images of him- or herself, or their work, in WebDam or another Berkeley Lab publicly available photo/image archive

C. Exceptions

Not applicable

D. Policy Statement

1. The photographs in Berkeley Lab's WebDam may be downloaded for use by the news media or for educational or scientific purposes, provided that users have abided by Berkeley Lab's End User License Agreement (excerpted below):
   
   1. "Photographs that are NOT headshot photographs or NOT photographs that feature one or more individuals in the Berkeley Lab Photo Archive are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Headshot photographs or other photographs that feature one or more individuals in the Berkeley Lab Photo Archive are licensed under the End User License Agreement. Such headshot photographs or other photographs that feature one or more individuals may be used only for identifying the individual and/or their research and may not be used in any way that violates any rights of publicity (including California Civil Code § 3344). Attribution Guidelines - For licensed use of any photograph in the Berkeley Lab Photo Archive, please credit Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and provide the following copyright notice: “© The Regents of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory” Downloading, displaying, distributing, copying, or otherwise using photographs in the Berkeley Lab Photo Archive indicates your agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of the above license agreements. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, do not download, display, distribute, copy, or otherwise use any images in this archive." (Go here to read the entire End User License Agreement.)
2. These images may not be used for commercial purposes without the Laboratory's written consent. Queries regarding prints, permission, and acceptable usage of these images should be directed to [email protected] or [email protected].

E. Roles and Responsibilities

Managers, supervisors, and employees have the responsibility to adhere to the provisions of this policy.

F. Definitions/Acronyms

None

G. Recordkeeping Requirements

None

H. Implementing Documents

I. Contact Information

Communications Manager
Strategic Communications
[email protected]

J. Revision History

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

Source Requirements Documents

• Berkeley Lab Senior Management requirement
• UC policy, Use of University Name
• Berkeley Lab Ethics and Conduct Policy

Implementing Documents