Republishing Guidelines

Our Common Ground publishes news about public lands, and threats made to them. You are welcome to republish our articles for free, so long as you follow the ground rules laid out below. And please let us know if you do republish!

Our Common Ground retains all copyright interests in our articles, visuals and multimedia.

 

Guidelines for republishing articles

    1. You must give the writer credit, in a format similar to “by Ryan Lowery, Our Common Ground”.

    2. If you publish online, you must include the links from the story, and a link to our website (https://readocg.com).

    3. Articles may be edited to fit your house style or to shorten.

    4. If you make significant changes beyond style, such as adding new reporting, you must include a note similar to “with additional reporting by (your publication or your reporter’s name)”.

    5. You may publish our graphics and any photos or videos that are credited to Our Common Ground along with the stories in which they originally appeared. Proper copyright credit to Our Common Ground must be given. For any other uses, you must seek permission from us.

    6. You may not sell our articles.

    7. You may not sell ads against the article. However, you can publish it on a page with ads you’ve already sold.

    8. You must immediately comply with any request from Our Common Ground to remove republished content from your website.
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