Copyright Notices
Articles on this website may not be copied and published elsewhere. However, this does not preclude linking to articles from other sites or sharing of articles on social media, the links for which are shown at the bottom of each article.
Our own images
Photographs by our staff writers, namely David Astley, Alan Williams, Nannette Holliday, Michael Cullen and Jillian Huntley, and guest authors, with the © symbol may be copied, distributed and shared in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International Public Licence.
The licence conditions are summarised here: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0
And the full licence is here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
In summary this means that you can use those photographs without getting permission from us provided it is for non-commercial use and provided you include the required attribution.
The ATTRIBUTION CONDITIONS are as follows:
1. A credit line following your usual format naming both the photographer and xyzAsia magazine (e.g. “Photo by David Astley | xyzAsia”).
2. The word ‘xyzAsia’ must be hyperlinked to either https://www.xyzasia.com or https://www.xyzasia.com/about-us
Provided you have met the above conditions, you do not have to notify us that you are using our images (but if you have the time to let us know, that would be appreciated).
For any proposed COMMERCIAL USE of our writer's photographs, you should contact us at the email address shown on the contact page of this website.
Stock and editorial images
Photographs that carry a © symbol and a credit line for another photographer indicate that they have been sourced from agencies like Alamy, Dreamstime, Getty Images, iStock or Shutterstock, and may not be copied. These are paid stock or editorial photographs for which licence fees have been paid by xyzAsia magazine.
Public domain images
Photographs that do not display a © symbol are public domain images sourced primarily from Unsplash and Pixabay. Whilst it is the policy of xyzAsia magazine to always credit the photographers of public domain images if their name is known, they may be shared freely without attribution.
Guest posts
The copyright of all guest posts published by xyzAsia passes to xyzAsia upon publication. Guest posts may not be published elsewhere except in the form of extracts on a writer’s portfolio page (with a link to the original story on xyzAsia) or by mutual agreement on sites which identify xyzAsia as the place where the post was originally published and canonical tags are used to identify xyzAsia as the original source.