Copyright

Greenpeace Canada encourages the reproduction and distribution of our materials, electronic products and/or services, including our name and logo. However, there are limits on these uses, and it’s important to know the following ground rules. However, there are limits on these uses, and it’s important to know the following ground rules.

In general

Our materials hosted at http://www.greenpeace.org/canada are free to use for personal or educational purposes. If you want screenshots to use in a text book, or you want to reproduce an article in your community newsletter, there’s no need to ask, provided you read and abide by our ground rules. We expressly forbid the use of any Greenpeace material appearing on this site, and/or the Greenpeace name and logo, for:

• personal or corporate gain, except by express permission as noted below;
• party political advertising or the suggestion of endorsement by Greenpeace of any candidate for public office;
• any suggestion of Greenpeace endorsement of a product or policy where such endorsement has not explicitly been made by Greenpeace itself;
• any suggestion of Greenpeace endorsement of, or connection with, websites that Greenpeace, in its sole discretion, finds to be of an illegal or objectionable nature, which includes obscene, violent, intolerant, denigrating or containing sexually-oriented content or materials;
• any false representation of yourself as a Greenpeace officer, employee, agent or official spokesperson, or any false representation that you are raising funds or donations for Greenpeace.

Linking to our website

We love it when you link to us and help spread the word about our campaigns for the environment. You don’t need permission. You are welcome to link to our main site or any of the issue areas you find there.

The Greenpeace logo

“Greenpeace”, including the Greenpeace logo, is an internationally registered trademark belonging to Stichting Greenpeace Council. Use of the trademark is granted on the condition:

• that it shall be purely for referential and non-commercial purposes;
• you not use the name and/or logo in any way that indicates or creates the impression that Greenpeace endorses, approves, sponsors or is affiliated with any products, services or goods available on your own website;
• banners bearing the name and/or logo only be used for the purpose of linking to the Greenpeace website as designated within the link, and these links always be active links;
• the name and/or logo not be combined with any other graphic elements; nor be altered in any way including font, design, arrangement, colours or elements; nor be animated, morphed or otherwise distorted in perspective or appearance;
• the name and/or logo not appear more prominently than your personal website name.

If you do use the logo, please include “Trademark of Stichting Greenpeace Council” in the alt tag or visibly on the page. The trademark remains the exclusive property of Greenpeace International, and by using it you agree that you shall not, in any way whatsoever, register or attempt to register the trademark or challenge the same.

Articles and Text

Articles and text produced by Greenpeace Canada are free for personal or educational use. Please do include a note saying: “Source: Greenpeace (http://www.greenpeace.org/canada)”  and reproduce any byline or copyright information provided in the original. Articles and text from third party sources remain the intellectual property and copyright of those third party sources, and permission for use should be sought from these original sources.

Photos/Images

Unless otherwise stated, Greenpeace has the copyright to all images and articles hosted at http://www.greenpeace.org/canada. The credit line for such material is © Greenpeace. In others, you’ll see Greenpeace/Photographer. Please reproduce the entire copyright line.

When copyright information is not present, either in an accompanying caption or burned into the photo, attribution can by found by inspecting the image by right-clicking the image and selecting “Inspect” or “View Info”.

© = All rights reserved to the person(s) or entities named. – Explanations of the other symbols/licences used and the rights derived from them can be found here.

For access to downloadable images and for all licensing or copyright enquiries, please visit media.greenpeace.org.

Any other use (such as using images for personal or corporate gain) require permission from Greenpeace International Media Library. Commercial use of any Greenpeace image without permission would constitute a copyright infringement and may infringe upon other rights.

News images of reproduction quality (around 8 megabytes in size) distributed by Greenpeace to journalists and agencies are intended for use within 14 days, and archiving and/or resale of these images is strictly forbidden. After 14 days, please contact us for licensing.

Video

Use of video is subject to the same conditions as other materials above. However, please note that not all of our videos are available for download.