Using media and content produced by the UCMP
Content and media owned or made by the UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) website are licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (BY-NC-SA 4.0) Creative Commons License. Using content and/or media owned by the UC Museum of Paleontology requires adherence to the Creative Commons license.
The UCMP website and its other sites, including but not limited to Understanding Science, Understanding Evolution, and Understanding Global Change, may contain content and/or media for which the UCMP does not own the copyright. In these instances, we post the corresponding information on copyright and permitted uses.
Noncommercial use
We allow free use of individual media components created by or owned by the UCMP for noncommercial and educational purposes (e.g., in-class use of images or limited text by a teacher or student, or reproducing an image in a lab manual that will be provided to students at-cost).
We ask that the work be credited with the following:
- for the UC Museum of Paleontology website: © UC Museum of Paleontology, www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
- for the Understanding Science website: © UC Museum of Paleontology Understanding Science, www.understandinscience.org
- for the Understanding Evolution website: © UC Museum of Paleontology Understanding Evolution, www.understandingevolution.org
- for the Understanding Global Change website: © UC Museum of Paleontology Understanding Global Change, www.understandingglobalchange.org
If you wish to reproduce many images or multiple webpages of content, please contact ucmpwebmaster@berkeley.edu for permission.
We do not require notification of use, however, we ask that we be notified of such use so we may include it in our statistics. You can let us know about your noncommercial use of our media by emailing ucmpwebmaster@berkeley.edu.
Commercial use
The UCMP charges use fees for commercial use of media, including for use in publications, exhibitions, or distribution in any format (print or digital). Requests with large distribution and/or high exposure may be subject to higher fees. These fees support the UCMP’s public outreach mission, which includes the maintenance of and creating new content on our educational websites. Requests for commercial use may be sent to ucmpwebmaster@berkeley.edu.
All rights remain with the UCMP.
Use fees
Fees for commercial use by non-profit organizations vary or may be waived. Contact ucmpwebmaster@berkeley.edu to inquire. Fees below apply to for-profit organizations and are current as of October 2021.
| EDITORIAL, PRINT and/or E-BOOK USE (per image) | |
|---|---|
| Print/e-book/online: publishers, businesses, individuals | $150 |
| Multi-media and/or worldwide rights | $375 |
| ADVERTISING, NON-EDITORIAL, BOOK COVERS, CALENDARS, CARDS, ETC. per image | $475 |
| VIDEO, TELEVISION, FILM, CD-ROM USE per image | |
| Businesses, individuals | $225 |
| Multi-media or worldwide rights | $375 |
| INTERNET, WEB SITE, MOBILE APP USE per image | $150 |
| EXHIBITION USE: PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL per image | $225 |
| RE-USE: subsequent edition, medium, language | 50% |