Thank you for visiting GeoDIL. We've established some guidelines to ensure that we can keep this service available and useful. GeoDIL reserves the right to change these guidelines at any time.

The images in GeoDIL are the property of those who submitted them to the library. You may copy them as much as you like for noncommercial, personal, educational, or classroom use (see further explanation below), but redistribution in any way requires the permission of the person who owns the copyright. GeoDIL administrators or staff cannot grant you the right to copy or redistribute any of the images in the library.

The U.S. Constitution and the Federal Copyright Act give photo owners exclusive rights to make copies, prepare other photos based on the original, distribute copies, and publicly display the photos. The same rights can be assumed to apply to digital images, although some complicated legal issues have not been completely resolved. However, there are generally two limitations to the author's rights: Fair Use and Educational Exemption.

Fair Use permits the use of work for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Fair use means incidental use. The owner's rights and interest remain protected.

Educational Exemption provides the educational community considerable freedom in using copyrighted material. Loading images from GeoDIL into virtual carousels or other image-viewing programs falls under the Educational Exemption category provided the organization using the material is a nonprofit educational institution, the use is part of the regular curriculum of a class, the material is in a classroom, the material has been legally obtained, and the materials will not be copied or duplicated.