TycheAbout:CopyrightLicensing
What is the licensing and copyright of Tyche Insights content?
In terms of the usage of Tyche Insights content we have a number of principles:
- Access to the content is free, there is no gatekeeping or paywall
- All content should be available for anyone to use, share, remix, build upon and create derivative work
- When content is used downstream the content creators must be credited
- All content is copyrighted by the content creators (authors, editors, anyone creating a data visualization or aid) and Tyche Insights
ShareAlike License
All Tyche Insights content will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
Credits
The credits for the data story will include the Author, all editors, any other contributors (e.g. providing advice, data visualizations) and Tyche Insights. We will use the Creative Commons recommended practices for attribution.
Every article must have a Credits section. This section will 1) make sure that we are overtly crediting all contributors to an article, and 2) make it easy for a User of the content who is going to Share or Adapt the content to understand what attribution statement they should use.
Credits Parameters
- Every article credits Tyche Insights - and we can use “Tyche Insights, P.B.C.”
- Copyright - “© Copyright 2025”
- Individuals that contribute to an article get recognized by their handle and (parenthetically) their full name, e.g. “KarlTyche (Karl Urich)”
- We provide a suggested attribution statement
The Credits section should look like this:
