Image license
Every article on Tech AI Wire carries a cover image. Not all of them belong to us, so this page says which is which and who to ask before you reuse one.
Start under the cover image on the article. If a credit line is printed there, it reads “Photo: …” in English and “Foto:” or “写真:” on our translated pages, and the picture belongs to whoever is named. If there is no credit line, the cover is either one we made or a screenshot of the software the article is about. Both are covered below, and if you cannot tell which you are looking at, ask us.
Covers we made
Most uncredited covers are made in-house. The picture is generated from a written description, then the headline, desk tag and wordmark are composited onto it in our own typeface; we do not photograph anything ourselves at present. We treat the finished cover as Tech AI Wire’s own work, and it is the one kind of image on this site whose reuse we can grant.
We are happy to grant reuse in most editorial contexts, and we do not charge for it. Email reviews@techaiwire.com with the article URL and where the image would appear. We normally answer within a few working days.
One thing we cannot grant: permission to present the image as your own work, or to use it in a way that implies Tech AI Wire endorses a product, a company or a claim.
Covers with a credit line: not ours to license
When the cover is a company press photo or a credited editorial photograph, we have permission to publish it in our own reporting and nothing more. We cannot sublicense it, and asking us will not get you the rights you need.
Contact the party named in the credit line directly. For a company press photo, that is normally the press or newsroom page on the company’s own site.
Two credit lines tell you more than a name. Where the credit already states a license, such as “CC BY-SA 4.0”, you may reuse the image on those terms without asking anyone, including us. Where the credit names a government body, the image may be a public-domain work, which carries no copyright at all. In both cases the terms come from the credited source, not from this page.
Screenshots and logos
Some covers are screenshots of software the article is about. The interface in the screenshot belongs to whoever makes that software, and we claim no rights over it. A screenshot carries no credit line, so it looks like one of our own covers at a glance; the headline strip on it is ours, the interface behind it is not. The same goes for any company logo, wordmark or product name that appears in an image: those remain the property of their owners, and we use them to report on the products they identify.
A few older covers
A small number of covers from our first weeks are real photographs whose source we did not record at the time. We make no ownership or license claim over them while we trace where each came from. Until a credit line appears on the article, treat such a picture as not ours to license, and ask us if you need to know more about one.
What we ask in return
Where you reuse one of our own images, credit it to Tech AI Wire and link back to the article it came from. That is not a legal condition of a granted permission, just the courtesy that keeps this worth doing.
Questions about anything on this page, or about an image you cannot place, go to the same address: reviews@techaiwire.com. Our editorial policy covers how the articles themselves are made, and corrections explains how we fix things we got wrong, including a miscredited photograph.