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What does submitting images to the Bugwood Image Database mean and how does it affect the copyright on the images?

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What does submitting images to the Bugwood Image Database mean and how does it affect the copyright on the images?

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The Bugwood Image Database was created to provide a central location that people can go to for high-resolution, accurately identified images of plants, insects, fungi, and other subjects. The photographer or their organization retain all rights to the images, however by submitting images to this system they agree to let the images be used freely by groups creating educational materials that are freely available (e.g. non-commercial publications) as long as the image is properly cited to give credit to the photographer, their organization and the system serving the images. There are occasions where individuals, journals or organizations will request commercial use of an image. Any such commercial requests are processed as indicated by the photographer. The current options for this are: • I would like to receive and answer all commercial requests for my images (and I may choose to charge for commercial use) • I authorize the Bugwood Network to allow use of my images for all commercial re

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