Created: July 19, 2020
At FamQStudioLab, our goal is to make access for all the families of the earth with young children for high quality visual content, easy-to-follow visuals, including video to empower meaningful daily living and creating positive changes at home with kids. We encourage the FamQStudioLab community, non-profit organizations, bloggers, companies’ news media, and the like to share FamQStudioLab Content that is open for distribution, through social media, other platforms and digital tools. While sharing content openly is a big part of who we are, we do license our content under certain conditions listed below.
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Commercial cases: Using a FamQStudioLab in a commercial context requires a license. Please send us your request for media licensing. Read more below about bringing FamQStudioLab to for-profit companies.
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Embedding FamQStudioLab Content on your blog or site:
- Type of site/company: Bloggers, news/information websites and nonprofits (by which we mean: registered 501(c)3 organizations in the United States, and the equivalent in all other countries), may share one or more FamQStudioLab Content under a Creative Commons (CC) license, provided that they follow the rest of the guidelines on this page and sharing the FamQStudioLab content is not the central purpose of your site. This means that we expect the usage under Creative Commons to be one to share ideas, not to use FamQStudioLab content as the main content for your site, which provides revenue or other sources of income that relies on content we are providing. If you are interested in licensing FamQStudioLab content for other purposes, or for more regular usage, please contact us for more details.
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- Using content in their entirety: You may not edit FamQStudioLab content, or alter it in any way. This is essential for preserving the integrity of the writer’’s ideas.
FamQStudioLab Talks for for-profit companies
Commercial applications of FamQStudioLab content require a license. Companies and organizations looking to embed or hyperlink FamQStudioLab content in contexts that include (but are not limited to) internal communications, employee training materials, and company websites must send a written inquiry about licensing.Please note that no promotional applications of FamQStudioLab content are permitted. Licenses for commercial applications involve a fee, which supports FamQStudioLab’s nonprofit mission of creating access for all the families of the earth with high quality content to share quality time together.
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Using FamQStudioLab content for Ed. purposes
We encourage you to find creative ways to share FamQStudioLab content with your friends, family, students, colleagues and communities. See below for specific examples. Please note that some of the below use cases require a license.
FamQStudioLab content in the classroom
Educators may use FamQStudioLab content and tools to stimulate discussions with children or to complement course materials and we encourage you to do so as well. You can use FamQStudioLab’s web pages/ blogs/ official YouTube channel directly from these platforms, as long as you comply with the terms of the Creative Commons license outlined above. Feel free to share links to FamQStudioLab.org or FamQStudioLab’s official YouTube channel with children on online forums or class websites.
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Media requests
Requests for FamQStudioLab Visuals, Photos, Videos
At this time we do not license FamQStudioLab photos, videos, visual content, images, illustrations outside of formal licensing partnerships.
Translating FamQStudioLab content
For those interested in helping to translate FamQStudioLab content, consider joining the FamQStudioLab Translators community of volunteers!
Where do I direct press related inquiries for FamQStudioLab content?
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Can I translate FamQStudioLab content for my YouTube channel?
We do not permit individuals and/or organizations to translate or dub outside of the official FamQStudioLab Translator community, as modifying the content in this way is not covered under FamQStudioLab’s Creative Commons license. Please also note FamQStudioLab has official channels on YouTube, and our distribution policy does not permit re-uploading FamQStudioLab content onto other YouTube channels. If you are interested in making created content more accessible to your community, join our FamQStudioLab Translator community of volunteers.
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