ARKive Media

Offers of film, photographs and audio recordings are welcome at any time from natural history film-makers, commercial image libraries, wildlife and conservation organisations, academic institutions and individuals.

This page contains the following sections:

This page contains the following sections:

Licence fee free

All media is donated free of charge to the ARKive project. Wildscreen cannot pay any licence fees but can cover transfer, duplication, packaging and delivery costs, on prior agreement and through provision of a receipt.

Copyright

Copyright of media remains at all times with the contributor(s); all media donors are asked to sign a ‘Copyright Licence Agreement’ with Wildscreen, to ensure their copyright interests are protected.

High resolution copies

Under this agreement Wildscreen is licensed to make high resolution digital copies of the media and store these securely off-line in the ARKive digital media vault. These digital copies are held in perpetuity as a record for future generations. Media held in the digital vault will under no circumstance be released to third parties, and there is no external on-line access to the ARKive digital media vault.

We would like to receive the donated media on the highest quality format practically possible (in practice, and depending on origination, this usually means digi-beta tapes and original transparencies) although this is always open to discussion. Moving footage is digitised in-house, fully uncompressed. Still images are scanned at a very high resolution out- of-house at the UK’s premier scanning agencies. Once high resolution digital copies have been made and are safely stored in the ARKive media vault, original material will be returned to the media donors.

Low resolution copies for ARKive website

ARKive is also licensed to make and store low resolution copies of the media and make low resolution versions of the media available for viewing, free of charge, via the ARKive website.

To prevent commercial use, all images shown on the website are at suitably low resolution, and will be visibly watermarked with the ARKive logo and credit information.

ARKive as showcase for image providers

The ARKive website acts as a showcase for image providers, showing full copyright details on-screen, contact details displayed with each image and links to each media donor's own web activities.

All requests for images received by ARKive are re-directed to the relevant copyright owner. However, visitors to the ARKive website may download low resolution copies of the images displayed, in accordance with ARKive's on-line standard terms of use, for non-commercial, educational or scientific purposes.

To see the lists of species that the media research team are currently working on please see: ARKive species lists

For further information on current ARKive media donors please see: ARKive media donors

For further information on ARKive media issues please contact: Richard Edwards, ARKive Director.

ARKive Website – ‘Terms of use’

This web site is © Wildscreen Trading Limited (1998). Material contained in this site is © Wildscreen Trading Limited or its contributors.

Visitors to the Site are entitled to:

  • View the contents of the site
  • Download and retain copies of the material in digital form
  • Print hard copies of each web page
  • Download and print web pages from the site for educational or research purposes as permitted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Extracts of part of the website or compilations of extracts can be made for the internal educational purposes of any authorised educational establishment, provided that the integrity of the material is maintained and copyright ownership acknowledged

SAVE AS PERMITTED ABOVE, VISITORS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO INCORPORATE ANY COPYRIGHT MATERIAL FROM THIS SITE INTO ANY OTHER WORK OR PUBLICATION IN WHATEVER FORMAT.

USE OF THE MATERIAL FOR THE PROMOTIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES OF ANY VISITOR OR ESTABLISHMENT (WHETHER EDUCATIONAL OR OTHERWISE) IS NOT PERMITTED.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ACCESS TO THIS WEB SITE AND ANY DOWNLOADING FROM IT ARE MONITORED ACTIVITIES.

What this means in practice is:

  • Visitors to the ARKive website may view and download the materials for their own personal research and educational use.
  • Teachers, educators, researchers and students may incorporate these materials into their lesson plans, presentations, work sheets, projects etc in hard copy and digital format for internal educational use.
  • Other websites may link directly to the ARKive web pages, but they may not incorporate ARKive images, sound recordings or film clips into their own website.
  • No organisation or person (whether an educational body or not) may incorporate ARKive material into CD ROMs, intranets, extranets, websites, digital communications or on printed materials for external distribution or for any promotional or commercial purpose whatsoever.
  • Please contact the copyright owners directly (copyright and contact details shown under each image) to negotiate terms and conditions for any use other than those expressly permitted above. Please note that many of the contributors to the ARKive project are commercial operators, and may request a fee for such use.
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