FAQs/Copyright

We regularly receive many emails from people wanting to join and help Nineteen Months in various ways. This is wonderful and we are all touched and very appreciative of your offers. To answer your commonly asked questions, we have put the following together. If your question is not answered, please email us at editors@nineteenmonths.com

Q: “How can I help this initiative?”

A: You could help us by promoting us through word-of-mouth, linking to us, and blogging/tweeting/facebooking us! Even better, start your own initiative (see below) and link to us!

Q: “I really like what you’re doing and would love to help by taking photographs or writing for you, is this possible?”

A: Nineteen Months is always looking for new photographers, writers, and contributors . Please send your portfolio or a link to your website to editors@nineteenmonths.com.

Q: “So how do I share my spiritually inspired photographs and writing if not on Nineteen Months?”

A: Easy. Do what we did. We are sure that with your talent and the Writings, you can start off a NEW initiative!

Nineteen Months is one idea of inspiration for photography, but we’re certainly not the Getty Images of Bahá’í inspired photography!

The web needs more high quality Bahá’í content. Its very easy to start something, using a site such as wordpress.com if you have no web skills, for example. For good examples of other sites showing individual initiative, see bottom of page.

Q: “I want to use your photos on the internet, what is your copyright policy?”

A: Every photo on the site has a copyright owned by the photographer of that photo, however, we (the photographers) have decided to let you use them non-commercially only if you let us know where you use them, acknowledge the photographer and link to the site. For more on this and using the photos OFF the internet, please see the section below regarding copyright.

Recommended examples of individual initiative

engendering equality: a personal blog that explores gender equality.

nineteen days: Like Nineteen Months and Nylon Parla, “nineteen days” is also a collaborative photography project. It was created to share moments of the early mornings and evenings of the nineteen days of the Bahá’í Fast.

Soul Pancake: SoulPancake is a place to speak your mind, unload your questions, and figure out what it means to be human. Created by Baha’i, and Hollywood actor/The Office (American) star; Rainn Wilson

Fashionable Earth: a nonprofit organization created to provide information, resources and programs that promote sustainable living and eco-friendly design. Their mission is to motivate, inspire and inform the consumer population toward being more green and eco-friendly, through their au courant mantra “reduce, reuse, restyle!”

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Copyright Policy for www.nineteenmonths.com:

Nineteen Months is a website bringing together a selection of photographers from around the world who are trying to reflect, however inadequately, the Divine Spirit which Baha’u'llah has breathed into the world, via the art of photography.

Our copyright policy has been created to encourage visits to this website, so that the photos based on the Bahá’í Calendar, can be viewed in context, to inspire everyone, with no restrictions.

The photographers own the copyright to their photos, however, by consensus, we have agreed on the following, based on an adaptation of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 License. Please contact the admin at admin@nineteenmonths.com for further information.

Thus you are free to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the photographs…

Under the following conditions:

Attribution

i) If used on the internet for websites/blogs: You must attribute the photo/s with acknowledgement of the photographer, a link to www.nineteenmonths.com (but not in any way that suggests that the photographer/website endorse you or your use of the photo/s) and let us know where the photo is being used by emailing the admin at admin@nineteenmonths.com

ii) If used publicly/privately (not on the internet) e.g. for devotionals, 19 day Feast, Firesides: You use all the photographs together where possible e.g. in a slideshow, so they can be shown in context, as a theme.

No Derivative Works

You may not alter, transform, or build upon the photographs.

Non Commercial

You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

With the understanding that:

Waiver — Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
Public Domain — Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
Other Rights — In no way are any of the following rights affected by the license:
Your fair dealing or fair use rights, or other applicable copyright exceptions and limitations;
The author’s moral rights;
Rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used, such as publicity or privacy rights.
Notice — For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.

This work by Nineteen Months is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.