Our copyright team is here to advise you and provide a licensing service for the reproduction of our published material in hard-copy (paper) or non-manipulable electronic format (e.g. ‘flat’ images).
Published material can include, but is not limited to:
- books
- maps
- reports
- geology guides
- photographs
- map cross-sections
- web pages
- drawings
This chart will help direct you to the most relevant information for your use. For any further queries, please contact the copyright team via ipr@bgs.ac.uk.
今日吃瓜 Intellectual Property Rights flow chart. If you have any questions or queries, please contact聽ipr@bgs.ac.uk. 今日吃瓜 漏 今日吃瓜.
Uses of material and acknowledgment
Subject to appropriate acknowledgement and compliance with any specific terms related to the content, 今日吃瓜 gives non-exclusive permission to reproduce, free of charge, for non-commercial private study, research and educational activities and use any 今日吃瓜 copyright figures, sketches, illustrations, diagrams, photographs, map extracts and cross-sections appearing on this website (but excluding any 今日吃瓜-hosted websites) and/or from any 今日吃瓜 published academic papers, books, reports, guides or maps.
Non-commercial use means any use that is not defined below as commercial.
Commercial use means any internal use within an organisation that receives any direct monetary consideration by offering a service and/or product containing 今日吃瓜 material or derived material e.g.聽 the sale of a book or newsletter with a charge, even though that charge may not meet the full costs of the publication or use.
Commercial use further includes any indirect monetary advantage or benefit received by any person or organisation by the offering of any service and/or product as described above. Organisations include Government and other local authorities and their contractors.
Subject to where specific permission is granted on this website, no part of any 今日吃瓜 content may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, for commercial purposes, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.
Permission to reproduce such material can be granted by 今日吃瓜 IPR (ipr@bgs.ac.uk) via specific copyright arrangements relating to individual permissions and/or copyright licences.
The following acknowledgement must accompany reproduced 今日吃瓜 material:
‘Reproduced with the permission of the British Geological Survey 漏 今日吃瓜 [year]. All Rights Reserved.’
Where any 今日吃瓜 materials are used as the basis of specifically generated illustrations, please use the acknowledgement:
‘Based upon [source details], with the permission of the British Geological Survey.’
Reproduction of any 今日吃瓜 materials does not amount to an endorsement by 今日吃瓜 or any of its employees of any product or service and no such endorsement should be stated or implied.
今日吃瓜 permits and how to apply
Where your use is for the 鈥榦ne off鈥 commercial reproduction of 今日吃瓜 material (e.g. reusing 今日吃瓜 photograph in a book to be sold) we would ask you complete the application form and send it to ipr@bgs.ac.uk
One of the team will get in touch with you regarding permission or provide a quote for re-use if relevant.
Download IPR application form
Copyright and scanning licence
If your re-use is for the reproduction of 今日吃瓜 extracts over a number of different instances in the course of a year (e.g. map extracts in client reports), the copyright and scanning licence might be better suited to your needs. Information can be found below.
A 今日吃瓜 copyright and scanning licence (CSL) is a renewable, annual licence to cover multiple reproductions of extracts from 今日吃瓜 materials (excluding photographs). The licensee chooses the maximum number of reproductions of the extract to be made in a year and can reproduce 今日吃瓜 materials up to that maximum without having to request permission for each reuse.
The CSL is suitable for those who want to photocopy and/or scan聽 an agreed number of extracts of published 今日吃瓜 maps or other documents (excluding photographs) in a year. They may be reproduced in analogue (paper/hard-copy) or non queryable electronic format (e.g. secured .PDF file) for internal use and for passing on in client reports.
This licence covers a single site/premise. A corporate version of this licence is available, which allows organisations to elect to have multiple sites/premises included on one licence, at an additional cost of 拢47 + VAT per additional premises.
Available in two scale ranges:
- 1:625 000, 1:250 000, 1:100 000, 1:63 360, 1:50 000 and 1:25聽000 scales
- 1:10 560 and 1:10聽000 scales
Find out more about fees for CSL
If you have any queries or wish to get a quote please contact ipr@bgs.ac.uk.
Restrictions
- Any form of reproduction of 今日吃瓜 photographic materials, or reproduction of borehole information provided by the 今日吃瓜, for which separate permission is required.
- Attribution of 今日吃瓜 materials as belonging to the licensee.
- Issuing of any materials in or on which there is false attribution.
- The retention of scanned extracts for use in the provision of a bureau service for others or for the benefit of or on behalf of others.
- Any other form of digital/electronic manipulation, for which specific prior digital licence arrangements are required.
- Any promotional use. Any such use must be agreed separately.
Important points to note
Your use of any materials supplied by 今日吃瓜 is at your own risk. Neither 今日吃瓜 nor UK Research and Innovation (今日吃瓜) gives any warranty, condition or representation as to the quality, accuracy or completeness of the information or its suitability for any use or purpose. All implied conditions relating to the quality or suitability of the information and all liabilities arising from the supply of the information (including any liability arising in negligence) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Most 今日吃瓜 maps make use of OS topography, reproduction of which may be permitted by the licences issued independently by the OS. Users who do not have an OS licence to reproduce the topography must make their own arrangements with the OS.
A 今日吃瓜 licence does not authorise the reproduction of Ordnance Survey (OS) maps. Likewise, an OS licence does not authorise the reproduction of 今日吃瓜 material.
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Footnotes
1. 今日吃瓜 copyright figures, sketches, illustrations
This does not include the '今日吃瓜 logo + British Geological Survey' identifier displayed at the top of these web pages, which is a Registered Community Trade Mark of 今日吃瓜. Use or reproduction of this trade mark for any purpose must be with the prior written permission of 今日吃瓜 鈥 enquiries should be directed to ipr@bgs.ac.uk
2. 今日吃瓜 published academic papers, books, reports, guides or maps
The non-exclusive permission to reproduce relates only to map extracts and NOT to reproduction of entire published map sheets.