Copyright & Intellectual Property

Effective date: 7 August 2026

STILL is an independent intellectual media platform dedicated to art, architecture and visual culture.

This Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy explains the rights that apply to original material published by STILL, the treatment of third-party material, and the circumstances in which STILL content may be quoted, indexed, discovered, licensed or otherwise used.

1. Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, original editorial and creative material published by STILL is protected by copyright and other applicable intellectual property laws.

This may include, where legally protectable:

• articles, Stories and other editorial texts;

• original research, commentary and written analysis;

• original translations and adaptations;

• headlines, descriptions and editorial copy;

• photographs, illustrations, graphics, diagrams, animations, audio and video created for STILL;

• newsletters and social media content;

• original compilations, selections and arrangements of material;

• website content and original elements of its visual presentation;

• documentation and original written material relating to STILL products and services.

Copyright protection applies to original expression. It does not claim ownership over facts, historical events, ideas, artistic works in the public domain, methods, concepts or other material that is not protected by copyright.

Except where expressly stated otherwise, all rights in original STILL material are reserved.

2. Editorial Content

Original STILL editorial content may not be reproduced, republished, translated, adapted, distributed, sold, syndicated, displayed in substantial part, or incorporated into another publication, product, database or commercial service without prior written permission, except where such use is permitted by applicable law.

This includes reproduction on websites, applications, newsletters, social media accounts, video platforms, publications, databases and other digital or physical media.

Changing, paraphrasing, translating, summarising or reformatting protected material does not by itself create permission to reproduce or commercially exploit that material where authorization is otherwise required by law.

3. Quotation, Reference and Linking

STILL welcomes responsible reference to its work.

You may link to publicly available pages on STILL.

Brief quotations may be used for criticism, commentary, research, journalism, education or other purposes permitted by applicable law, provided that the use is proportionate to its purpose and appropriate attribution is given where required.

Where attribution is appropriate, please identify STILL and link to the original page on thisisstill.art.

Nothing in this Policy is intended to restrict quotation, criticism, review, research, education, parody or other uses that are permitted without authorization under applicable law.

Reproduction of an entire article, a substantial portion of an article, or a systematic collection of STILL material is not considered ordinary attribution or linking and may require permission.

4. Search Engines, AI Discovery and Recommendations

STILL welcomes technologies that help people discover original material, tools and services published on thisisstill.art.

Subject to applicable law and any machine-readable instructions published by STILL, search engines, AI-powered search services, recommendation systems and similar discovery technologies may crawl or index publicly accessible pages for the purpose of locating, identifying, describing, linking to and recommending STILL content or services to users.

This permission is intended to support discovery of the original source. It does not grant permission to reproduce substantial portions of STILL content, create substitute versions of STILL products, or use protected material for unrelated model training, dataset creation or commercial exploitation.

Any machine-readable crawler, indexing, text-and-data-mining or AI-use instructions published by STILL form part of this rights reservation and should be read together with this Policy.

5. AI Training, Text and Data Mining, and Automated Extraction

Except to the extent that applicable law provides otherwise, STILL expressly reserves its rights in relation to the use of protected STILL content for:

• training, developing, fine-tuning or evaluating artificial intelligence or machine-learning models;

• creating or augmenting training, evaluation, benchmarking or retrieval datasets;

• text and data mining beyond uses expressly permitted by law or authorized by STILL;

• large-scale or systematic scraping, crawling or extraction for content acquisition rather than genuine search or discovery;

• retrieval systems designed to reproduce substantial portions of STILL material without directing users to the original source;

• generation of substitute or competing editorial products derived systematically from STILL content;

• commercial exploitation of extracted STILL material.

Where applicable law permits rights holders to reserve rights against text and data mining or similar automated uses, STILL expressly reserves those rights, including through this Policy and any applicable machine-readable means.

Nothing in this section prohibits ordinary search indexing, legitimate discovery, linking, or uses that cannot lawfully be restricted.

Permission for research, commercial AI use, datasets or other machine uses may be available under a separate licence. Enquiries may be sent to legal@thisisstill.art.

6. Databases and Structured Data

Databases, compilations, taxonomies, structured collections and other organised datasets created or maintained by STILL may be protected by copyright, database rights, sui generis rights and other applicable laws.

This may include databases and structured information developed for current or future STILL products and services, including cultural, museum, exhibition, artwork, venue, location, event or related datasets.

Where such rights exist, extraction or re-utilisation of the whole or a substantial part of a protected database is prohibited without authorization, except as permitted by law.

Repeated or systematic extraction or re-utilisation of portions of a database may also be restricted where applicable law provides such protection.

Individual facts or public-domain information are not claimed as the exclusive property of STILL merely because they appear in a STILL database. Rights may, however, subsist in the selection, verification, organisation, presentation, compilation, structure and other protectable aspects of the database.

7. Software, Tools and Digital Products

STILL develops digital tools, utilities, interfaces and other technology products.

These may include, without limitation, calculators, visualisation tools, cultural discovery products, and future software, AI-enabled services, applications, APIs and digital products.

Depending on the product and applicable law, intellectual property rights may exist in source code, object code, original documentation, graphic elements, original interface assets, databases, content, audiovisual elements and other protectable components.

Copyright does not extend merely to an underlying idea, mathematical method, algorithm, functionality or method of operation where applicable law excludes such protection.

Access to a STILL tool or service does not transfer ownership of intellectual property in that tool or service.

Specific products may be subject to additional terms, licences or usage rules.

8. Third-Party Artworks and Images

STILL publishes material about works of art, architecture, museums and visual culture. As a result, pages may contain images, reproductions or other material supplied by or sourced from museums, archives, cultural institutions, photographers, artists, image providers or other third parties.

Artwork images, photographs and other third-party materials remain subject to the rights, licences, public-domain status, credit requirements and usage conditions applicable to their respective sources and rights holders.

Where an artwork itself is in the public domain, STILL does not claim copyright in the underlying artwork merely because it is discussed or displayed on this website.

Where a reproduction or image is supplied under an open licence, public-domain designation, institutional open-access policy or other licence, that material remains subject to the terms applicable to that source.

A STILL copyright notice should therefore not be interpreted as asserting ownership over third-party material or public-domain works appearing alongside STILL editorial content.

9. Credits and Rights Information

STILL seeks to provide appropriate image credits, rights statements and source information where relevant.

If you believe that a credit, rights statement or attribution is inaccurate or incomplete, please contact copyright@thisisstill.art so that the matter can be reviewed.

Removal, alteration or concealment of copyright notices, attribution information, rights-management information, credits or other proprietary notices associated with protected STILL material is not permitted where prohibited by applicable law.

10. STILL Name, Identity and Brand

The STILL name, logo, visual identity and other brand assets may be protected by trademark, copyright, unfair-competition and other applicable laws.

Nothing on this website grants a licence to use the STILL name, logo or brand identity in a manner that suggests endorsement, partnership, sponsorship, affiliation or authorization where none exists.

Third-party trademarks, museum names, artist names and other identifiers appearing on STILL remain the property of their respective owners where applicable. Their appearance on STILL does not imply endorsement or affiliation unless expressly stated.

11. No Transfer of Rights

Accessing thisisstill.art, reading an article, using a free tool, sharing a link or otherwise interacting with STILL does not transfer any intellectual property rights to the user.

Any permission not expressly granted remains reserved.

12. Licensing and Permissions

STILL may grant permission or licences for uses including republication, translation, syndication, educational use, research projects, commercial reuse, datasets, AI applications, institutional partnerships and other forms of reuse.

Permission must be obtained before the proposed use unless the use is already permitted by applicable law.

Licensing requests should identify the material concerned, the proposed use, the territory or audience, the medium and whether the use is commercial.

Licensing and permissions enquiries may be sent to legal@thisisstill.art. A dedicated Licensing & Permissions Policy may supplement this section.

13. Reporting Copyright or Rights Concerns

STILL respects the intellectual property rights of others.

If you believe that material appearing on STILL infringes your copyright or another intellectual property right, or if you believe that attribution or rights information requires correction, please contact copyright@thisisstill.art with sufficient information to identify the material and explain the basis of your request.

STILL may investigate and, where appropriate, correct attribution, restrict access to material or remove material while a rights issue is reviewed.

Submitting a notice does not constitute an automatic admission of infringement or an obligation to remove the material. Each request may be considered in light of its content, applicable law, relevant licences, public-domain status and other circumstances.

14. Enforcement and Reservation of Rights

STILL actively protects its intellectual property and reserves all rights and remedies available under applicable copyright, trademark, database, contractual and other intellectual property laws.

Unauthorized reproduction, systematic extraction, commercial exploitation or other infringement may result in appropriate enforcement action.

Nothing in this Policy constitutes a waiver of any intellectual property right, remedy or protection available to STILL or another applicable rights holder.

A failure by STILL to act immediately in relation to a particular use does not constitute permission, a licence or a waiver of the relevant rights.

15. Relationship with Other Policies

This Policy should be read together with the STILL Terms of Use and, where applicable, the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, AI Usage Policy, Licensing & Permissions Policy and any product-specific terms.

If specific material is accompanied by a separate licence or rights statement, that specific licence or rights statement governs the use of that material to the extent of any inconsistency with this general Policy.

16. Changes to This Policy

STILL may update this Policy as its platform, products, technology or applicable legal requirements develop.

The current version will be published on this page together with its effective date.

Where changes are material, STILL may provide additional notice in a manner appropriate to the nature of the changes.

17. Contact

For copyright notices, rights concerns, attribution corrections or other copyright-specific matters, contact copyright@thisisstill.art.

For licensing, permissions, legal questions or other intellectual property enquiries, contact legal@thisisstill.art.

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