Amplify Utah Photo Lab — Media Partner Terms

1 What you're licensed to do

Downloading a photo through your media account grants your organization a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to publish that photo for editorial use — news reporting, features, commentary, and education — in print, online, in newsletters, and on your organization's social accounts when tied to editorial coverage.

Copyright stays with the student photographer. The license never expires for stories you've already published, so your archives stay intact.

2 Credit is not optional

Every published photo must carry a visible credit to the student who made it, in this exact format:

The photographer's name appears on each photo's page and is baked into the filename of every download — and we copy the credit line to your clipboard automatically when you download. Credit in a caption, a cutline, or an adjacent credit block all count; credit buried in site metadata does not. A byline is often the first published work in a student's portfolio, so it matters more here than almost anywhere else.

3 Permitted edits

You may crop, resize, and make modest tonal adjustments — brightness, contrast, color balance — to fit your layout, the same touch you'd give a wire photo. The photo's journalistic content must remain intact: no adding or removing elements, no compositing, and no filters or generative edits that change what the camera actually saw.

4 What's never allowed

• Resale or sublicensing. Don't sell, relicense, or redistribute files to third parties, stock services, or content pools.
• Commercial or advocacy use. No ads, marketing, merchandise, or political material without separate written consent from Amplify Utah and the photographer.
• AI training. Photos may not be used to train, fine-tune, or evaluate machine-learning or generative-AI systems.
• Misrepresentation. Don't present a photo as depicting a different event, time, or place, or strip its context in a misleading way.
• Sharing your access. Full-resolution files are for your newsroom's editorial use — not for republishing as downloadable originals or handing your login to others.

5 Our photographers are students

Photo Lab contributors are high-school students, and many are minors. Publish their work with the same dignity you'd give any professional colleague: credit them accurately, don't use their photos in contexts that mock or demean them or their subjects, and route any contact with a photographer through Amplify Utah rather than reaching out to a student directly.

6 Corrections and takedowns

Occasionally a photo is unpublished — a caption correction, a subject's request, or an editorial decision. When that happens it disappears from the library and from download. If we contact you about a published photo with a material problem, we ask that you update or remove it from current online coverage promptly. Nobody expects recalled print runs.

7 Your account

Media accounts are for working journalists, editors, and the organizations behind them. Keep your credentials to yourself, keep your organization details accurate, and know that every download is logged to your account. Accounts that violate these terms can be suspended — and if that ever happens in error, support can put it right.

8 Questions

Unusual use case? Wondering whether an edit crosses a line? Want to commission coverage? Contact the team — we'd rather answer a question up front than untangle a problem later.