A Notice to Photography Clubs and Teachers about Using Our Tutorials

One of the most common email requests that I get are from those heading up local photography clubs asking if they are able to use our tutorials in their newsletters or classes.

I get these emails on such a regular basis that I thought I’d write a post outlining how our content can be used by these groups.

While the written content on DPS is protected by copyright we do give permission to local photography clubs and some schools to use our tutorials for educational purposes under some circumstances and conditions (outlined below)

1. Content may not be reproduced online on another website – ie you may use it in your club or school if you print it out for members/students or even to email it out – but not to publish on your site.
2. Credit must be given to the author – please include their name and bio line and a crediting link/url to their site if they have one in their bio.
3. Credit must be given to Digital Photography School. Please include a line to the effect of ‘Source: www.digital-photography-school.com’ or ‘first published on www.digital-photography-school.com’
4. Please don’t reproduce pictures without checking copyright – this one is trickier – at DPS we use a lot of Creative Commons licence images which you’d be able to use also if you credit the photographer. But if the images don’t have a link to where you can check the copyright they may well be copyright protected and only for use on DPS (some photographers only allow us to use them). To be safe you’d be best not to use the images in our articles or supply your own.
5. Our Tutorials may not be used for commercial purposes – please don’t sell them or use them as the basis for a paid course. If in doubt please contact us.
6. Fair Use – please don’t reproduce large quantities of our tutorials. We’re happy for you to reproduce a few for educational purposes but don’t take it too far and do hundreds!

Our goal with this policy is to share the knowledge and make the learning happening on DPS go further – but also to give credit where credit is due and not have our site and it’s contributors exploited. Again – if in doubt, feel free to email us via our contact form.