# About the Images: Public Domain and Fair Use

All of the images and movies stored on ww2incolor.com were collected from government sources or submitted by their respective owners. This does not mean that all images on this site are in the public domain. The majority of the images, unfortunately, have an unknown copyright status and therefore it is recommended that you do not distribute or copy them for any commercial purposes unless they are specifically stated to be in the public domain (some images have a “public domain” notice in their captions).

Most of the images in the gallery are products of government works and therefore are required to be in the public domain by copyright law. However, some of the images were photographed by private individuals, media or other entities that do not fall under public domain law. With that said, if an image in this gallery contains an unknown copyright status notification or a restricted notification (these notices are available beneath the photo captions. NOTE: I am currently implementing this, not all images are marked) then it shall be known that it is being displayed on this website under the 'fair use' doctrine under U.S. copyright law that provides for the licit, non-licensed citation or incorporation of possible copyrighted material. In a nutshell, this means that those images, according to US law, can only be used by this website for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research and is therefore not an infringement of copyright as this website's sole purpose is to educate and research the World War II era.

Furthermore, ww2incolor.com complies and is protected in other countries under 'Fair Dealing' [CDPA] (United Kingdom, Canada).

In no way does ww2incolor.com sell or commercially distribute any copyrighted images on this website.

Finally, if you are the legal owner of an image(s) that is displayed in this gallery, and you would like it removed, please contact me and I will remove the image(s) and/or rectify any problems as soon as possible.

Further reading about copyright law and the 'Fair Use' doctrine can be found here.