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Disclaimer
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Submission Ts & Cs
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Notes
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| NWS Aberdeen, SD
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| NWS Albany, NY
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| NWS Albuquerque, NM
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| NWS Amarillo, TX
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| NWS Anchorage, AK
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| NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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| NWS Baltimore, MD/Washington D. C.
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| NWS Billings, MT
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| NWS Binghamton, NY
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| NWS Birmingham, AL
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| NWS Bismarck, ND
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| NWS Blacksburg, VA
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| NWS Boise, ID
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| NWS Boston / Taunton, MA
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| NWS Brownsville, TX
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| NWS Buffalo, NY
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| NWS Burlington, VT
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| NWS Caribou, ME
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| NWS Charleston, SC
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| NWS Charleston, WV
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| NWS Cheyenne, WY
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| NWS Chicago, IL
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❌ "Share your fall foliage, harvest, pumpkin, or fall weather pictures with us! Please post them to our Facebook and/or Twitter page with your permission for us to use them. Thank you!" 2024-08-06
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Submission only gives "us" (NWS Chicago? NWS generally?) permission to use the photos.
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| NWS Cleveland, OH
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❌ "You must provide us with permission to re-post and use your photo. You will received credit on anything we post!" (sic) 2024-08-06
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Submission only gives "us" (NWS Cleveland? NWS generally?) permission to use the photos.
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❌ "If you have information you would like to share with us, please e-mail us at the NWS Cleveland or send us the information via the poastal service at: (...) We are looking for: Pictures (digital or prints) Stories Impact and Statistics Note that we will not be able to return any of the information. We will give credit to all information posted unless otherwise requested. We do not guarantee all the information received will be posted."
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Process makes no mention of public domain. Submitted images published with attribution "Courtesy..."
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| NWS Columbia, SC
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| NWS Corpus Christi, TX
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| NWS Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
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| NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
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| NWS Des Moines, IA
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❌ "If you do send photos, please let us know if you grant permission for us to use them in future spotter talks and outreach presentations." ("What and how to report" tab) 2024-08-06
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Submission only gives "us" (NWS Des Moines? NWS generally?) permission to use the photos in future spotter talks and outreach presentations.
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| NWS Detroit/Pontiac, MI
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| NWS Dodge City, KS
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| NWS Duluth, MN
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| NWS Elko, NV
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| NWS El Paso, TX
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| NWS Eureka, CA
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| NWS Fairbanks, AK
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| NWS Flagstaff, AZ
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| NWS Gaylord, MI
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| NWS Glasgow, MT
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| NWS Goodland, KS
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| NWS Grand Forks, ND
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❌ "If you do send photos, please let us know if you grant permission for us to use them in future spotter talks and outreach presentations." ("What and how to report" tab) 2024-08-06
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Submission only gives "us" (NWS Grand Forks? NWS generally?) permission to use the photos in future spotter talks and outreach presentations.
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| NWS Grand Junction, CO
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❌ "If you have a weather related photograph that you would like to submit for the Image Gallery page, please E-mail the webmaster."
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Gives permission to publish on the image galley page.
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| NWS Grand Rapids, MI
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"Thank you to everyone who gave us permission to use their photos!" -- the original context is missing, but the acknowledgment here implies that this was a permission to use, not a release into the PD.
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as above
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| NWS Gray/Portland, ME
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| NWS Great Falls, MT
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| NWS Green Bay, WI
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❌ "In order for us to use your photo for the Photo Contest and other NWS Green Bay weather graphics, WE NEED WRITTEN PERMISSION from you. Please include a statement with your submission like, “NWS Green Bay may use my photo” or “Permission granted to use photo.” Photos submitted without such a statement will NOT be entered into the contest." 2024-08-06
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Submission only gives NWS Green Bay permission to re-share the contribution, not anybody else (maybe not even any other NWS offices).
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| NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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| NWS Guam
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| NWS Hanford, CA
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| NWS Hastings, NE
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| NWS Honolulu, HI
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| NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
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| NWS Huntsville, AL
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| NWS Indianapolis, IN
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| NWS Jackson, KY
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| NWS Jackson, MS
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| NWS Jacksonville, FL
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| NWS Juneau, AK
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| NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, MO
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| NWS Key West, FL
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| NWS La Crosse, WI
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⚠️ "Do you have some pictures from the surrounding area that you would like to contribute to our photos page? Email us your digital photos, along with the location and date they were taken (include your name if you'd like it included). We will review them, and if they pass the "test", they will be included. Please note that this is a government site and in the public domain, so no copyright privileges will exist."
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Images emailed for inclusion on the photos page are unambiguously released into the public domain, but for third-party images that appear elsewhere on NWS La Crosse's site, we can't know whether they were submitted this way or under these terms. The oldest snapshot of this page in the Internet Archive is from 2015.
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| NWS Lake Charles, LA
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| NWS Las Vegas, NV
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| NWS Lincoln, IL
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❌ "If you can help up, please paste your photos to our Facebook or Twitter feeds. Make sure they are pictures YOU have taken, and state that you are willing to let us use them." 2024-08-06
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Submission only gives the NWS permission to re-share the contribution, not anybody else.
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| NWS Little Rock, AR
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| NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard, CA
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| NWS Louisville, KY
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Previously hosted terms and conditions identical to those at the Sioux City office (earliest archive.org snapshot is 2015), but these were subsequently taken down. They do not appear in the 20 September 2022 snapshot
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| NWS Lubbock, TX
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| NWS Marquette, MI
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| NWS Medford, OR
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| NWS Melbourne, FL
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| NWS Memphis, TN
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❌ "By sharing information with us via social media you are giving the NWS permission to share it with the public by re-tweeting or re-sharing the information." 2024-08-06
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Submission only gives the NWS permission to re-share the contribution, not anybody else.
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| NWS Miami - South Florida
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| NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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| NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI
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| NWS Missoula, MT
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| NWS Mobile, AL/Pensacola, FL
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| NWS Morristown, TN
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| NWS Nashville, TN
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| NWS New Orleans/Baton Rouge, LA
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| NWS Newport/Morehead, NC
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| NWS New York, NY
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| NWS Norman, OK
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✅ "If the photos are copyrighted (those photos are labeled as such), you will need to get written permission from the copyright holder. Otherwise, you can use the photo without express permission, provided that you give credit to the source of the picture, usually the National Weather Service." 2024-08-06
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This page shows examples of what such labels might look like; they're quite unambiguous. (Click the "Tornado Photos" tab)
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| NWS Northern Indiana
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| NWS North Platte, NE
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| NWS Omaha/Valley, NE
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⚠️ "Submitted images will be made available to use by anyone in the NWS and will be in the Public Domain." but also "Yes/No – is photo credit required with each use?" 2024-08-06
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The requirement to provide a photo credit is incompatible with releasing something into the public domain. If somebody submitted a photo and specified this requirement, it is unclear what the resulting copyright and licence status would be.
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| NWS Paducah, KY
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| NWS Peachtree City, GA
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⚠️ "Those wishing to use photos on this website have permission to do so. However, please credit the NWS, or those who are credited here." 2024-08-06
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❌ "If you have any weather related pictures you would like to share with us, we would be glad to put them on this Web Page and possibly use them in our Spotter Training with the proper credits." 2024-08-06
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Note that these two texts occur on the same page; on the one hand NWS Peachtree City is inviting members of the public to email or physically mail them photos to put "on this Web Page", but is then also advising the world at large to use photos from "this website" freely.
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| NWS Pendleton, OR
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| NWS Philadelphia/Mt Holly, PA
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| NWS Phoenix, AZ
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| NWS Pittsburgh, PA
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| NWS Pocatello, ID
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| NWS Portland, OR
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| NWS Pueblo, CO
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| NWS Quad Cities, IA/IL
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| NWS Raleigh/Durham, NC
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| NWS Rapid City, SD
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| NWS Reno, NV
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| NWS Riverton, WY
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| NWS Sacramento, CA
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| NWS Salt Lake City, UT
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| NWS San Angelo, TX
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| NWS San Diego, CA
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| NWS San Francisco/Monterey Bay Area, CA
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| NWS San Juan, PR
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| NWS Seattle, WA
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| NWS Shreveport, LA
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| NWS Sioux Falls, SD
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⚠️ "By submitting images, you understand that your image is being released into the public domain. This means that your photo or video may be downloaded, copied, and used by others." 2024-08-06
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This condition of submission to this office has been in place since at least 2022. However, we have no way of knowing whether any specific image published on weather.gov/fsd was submitted under these terms, or whether submitters were necessarily even aware of them.
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| NWS Spokane, WA
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| NWS Springfield, MO
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| NWS State College, PA
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| NWS St. Louis, MO
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| NWS Tallahassee, FL
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| NWS Tampa Bay Area, FL
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| NWS Topeka, KS
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| NWS Tucson, AZ
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| NWS Tulsa, OK
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| NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN
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| NWS Wakefield, VA
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| NWS Wichita, KS
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| NWS Wilmington, NC
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| NWS Wilmington, OH
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| Lightning Photos
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❌ "The submitted images can be used by NOAA/NWS or anyone else for lightning safety and related uses."
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Not a free licence since it does not allow images to be used for any purpose other than lightning safety or related uses.
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| Rip Current Photos
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❌ "The submitted images can be used by NOAA/NWS or anyone else for lightning safety and related uses."
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Not a free licence since it does not allow images to be used for any purpose other than lightning safety or related uses. Apparently just copied from the Lightning Photos page without adjusting the terms and conditions to apply to rip currents.
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| Sneaker Wave and High Surf Photos
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❌ "The submitted images can be used by NOAA/NWS or anyone else for lightning safety and related uses."
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Not a free licence since it does not allow images to be used for any purpose other than lightning safety or related uses. Apparently just copied from the Lightning Photos page without adjusting the terms and conditions to apply to dangerous waves.
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| Weather Spotter's Field Guide
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❌ "If you are willing to allow the NWS to use your photo or video in our education and outreach efforts, please state that NWS has permission to reprint when you submit the file to us. If you would like us to credit you on the image, we will gladly do that."
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Not a free licence since it does not allow images to be used by anyone other than the NWS or for any purpose other than education and outreach.
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