Copyright and takedown policy

Only share what you have the right to share

Please upload or write material only if you created it, own it, have permission to share it, or reasonably believe it can be shared in this context.

Archive references, quotations, and transcriptions should include enough context for other people to understand where the information came from.

Contributor ownership

Contributors retain ownership of images, writing, and other material they upload or write, subject to any rights held by other people or organisations.

By contributing images, contributors give Local Past a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display, process, resize, crop, thumbnail, watermark, back up, moderate, and show those images within Local Past so the service can operate.

What Local Past will not do

• Local Past will not sell uploaded images as standalone assets.
• Local Past will not re-license uploaded images to third parties.
• Local Past will not use uploaded images promotionally without separate permission or opt-in.

Review and takedown

If someone believes content infringes rights, exposes sensitive information, or should not be public, they can use Report on the entry or photo (when signed in) or the contact page to ask for review.

Photo uploads require a rights confirmation before publish; moderators can see whether that attestation was recorded when reviewing a report.