Copyright and DMCA

This page covers three things: the licence on our own writing, the licences on the photographs we publish, and how to file a takedown request. All copyright matters go to [email protected].

Our content

Articles, guides, headlines, and the videos generated from our article text are copyright US In News, all rights reserved.

You may quote a short extract — a sentence or two, or a single paragraph — with clear attribution to US In News and a link to the article. That is fair use and we encourage it. Linking to us needs no permission at all.

You may not republish an article in full, post it to another site with or without credit, translate and republish it, or feed it into a content product that reproduces it. Attribution does not convert republication into fair use.

For syndication or reprint permission, write to [email protected]. We answer these.

Photographs

Photographs on this site come from Wikimedia Commons. They are not ours, and we do not claim copyright in them.

Every image passes a licence and author gate before publication: an image whose licence or author cannot be established is rejected and never appears on the site. In practice our images are Creative Commons licensed — commonly CC BY or CC BY-SA — or public domain.

Each photograph renders a credit line naming the photographer, the licence, and the source. That credit is not optional and is not a courtesy: CC BY and CC BY-SA require attribution as a condition of the licence, and stripping it would be a breach. It is displayed with the image rather than buried on a credits page for the same reason.

If you want to reuse a photograph you found here, your rights come from that image's own licence, not from us. Follow the credit line to the source on Wikimedia Commons for the full licence terms and the correct attribution string. A CC BY-SA image carries a share-alike obligation onto whatever you use it in.

If you believe an image is credited incorrectly, or the licence we have recorded is wrong, tell us at [email protected]. Getting attribution right is the whole point of the gate, and a miscredit is a fault we want to fix.

Quotations from broadcast sources

Our news stories are compiled from transcripts of identified broadcasts. Quotations are verbatim, short, and attributed by outlet name, and every story names the outlets it was compiled from. This is reporting on and about the source coverage, not reproduction of it. If you are a rights holder who believes we have gone beyond that, write to [email protected] and we will look at the specific passage.

Filing a DMCA takedown notice

Send takedown notices to [email protected]. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a valid notice must include: identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed; the exact URL on usinnews.com and identification of the specific material at that URL; your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf; and your physical or electronic signature.

Notices missing these elements may not be actionable, and we will tell you what is missing rather than ignoring you.

What we do with a notice

We acknowledge receipt and review the claim. Where a claim about an image is credible, we remove the image while we check it — taking a photograph down costs little and leaving an infringing one up costs the rights holder. We tell you what we did.

If we conclude the use was licensed or lawful, we explain why rather than removing content silently. If material is removed from an article in a way that changes what the article says, that change is logged under our corrections policy. We do not quietly unpublish.

Knowingly filing a false notice carries liability under the DMCA. If you believe material of yours was removed in error, send a counter-notice to the same address with your contact details, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification.

Other removal requests

Not every removal request is a copyright matter. If you are the subject of a story and believe it contains a factual error, that is a correction — write to [email protected], and see our corrections policy for how errors are handled and displayed.

We do not delete accurate reporting on request, and we do not unpublish articles to make them disappear. Where a story is wrong enough to withdraw, we retract it: the text is struck through, not deleted, and a notice explains what was wrong. That record stays public.

Requests involving privacy, personal safety, or legal claims other than copyright go to [email protected] and are read by the editor-in-chief.