In a nutshell, this next section simply allows you to confirm that the host of the Religion and Environment Photo Gallery (Dr. Gregory Hitzhusen at Ohio State) has permission to use your photos in accord with the
CC-BY-NC4.0 license in open-source online textbooks and other teaching and research applications connected to the photo gallery. This does not expand the limits of the creative commons license (CC-BY-NC4.0), but simply makes explicit some of the likely places where your photo might be shared at or by Ohio State. Other viewers of the Gallery will also be free, by virtue of this creative commons license, to share and use your photo (non-commercially) with attribution. Apologies for the "legalese" below. :)
License Agreement (CC-BY-NC4.0): I hereby grant Dr. Gregory Hitzhusen and other instructors of ENR 3470 Religion and Environmental Values in America, and The Ohio State University, other affiliates, licensees, successors and assignees (collectively, “University”) a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to make use of and make copies of presentation images and text submitted in connection with the Religion and Environment Photo Gallery. This license grants the rights to edit the work and to compile the work in whole or in part with other materials. This work may be incorporated in whole or in part into a complete work in any format. This license includes the rights for permanent archiving and public access, and to make derivative works, provided that the University credits my work by name. This license also grants the rights to make my work and any derivative works and compilations available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC4.0) license. I understand that giving my permission is voluntary and does not alter the copyright or other rights to the work that I might hold. I understand that this license does not prevent me from entering into similar arrangements with other parties or from exercising any rights that I may have in the work. However, I understand that I may need to inform subsequent publishers or others that I have granted this preexisting permission. The rights granted to Dr. Gregory Hitzhusen, other instructors of ENR3470 Religion and Environmental Values in America, and the University may be exercised in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter devised, and include the right to make such modifications as are technically necessary to exercise the rights in other media and formats. I certify that I have obtained proper permission for any third party material used within my work. Dr. Gregory Hitzhusen, other instructors of ENR 3470 Religion and Environmental Values in America, and the University are granted the right to use all of my work in any manner that it deems appropriate. This grant includes any physical or digital educational uses including, but not limited to, inclusion in the Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University Institutional Repository), exhibition, display, reformatting for preservation and access purposes, and making works available for research and scholarship. I waive the right to receive any payment for Dr. Gregory Hitzhusen’s, other instructors’ of ENR 3470 Religion and Environmental Values in America, or the University’s use of material described in this release. I also waive any right to inspect or approve finished photographs, audio, video, multimedia, or advertising recordings and copy or printed matter or computer generated scanned image and other electronic media. I acknowledge that I have read and fully understood the contents of this document, and have freely signed by signing the box below. If release is provided on behalf of a minor, see below. *