Reuse and Licensing
Reuse and Licensing
Page of Plymouth was made with public money, and what we produced belongs in public hands. Almost everything on this site — the films, the writing, the photographs of our workshops and events — is published under an open licence, which means you may copy it, share it, republish it and build on it, including commercially, as long as you credit us. This page sets out exactly what that covers, what it doesn’t, and how to credit us properly.
Except where noted and excluding company and organisation logos, this work is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence. Page of Plymouth (2026) by Literature Works, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt — remix, transform and build upon it, for any purpose, including commercially.
The one condition is attribution: credit the source, link to the licence, and say if you changed anything. You may not add legal terms or technical measures that stop anyone else doing the same.
In practice the licence covers:
The seven project films, on this site and on our YouTube channel;
The writing on this site — blog posts, learning resources and activity materials;
Photographs of project workshops, costumes and events taken by the project;
Project documents and reports published here for download.
What the licence doesn’t cover
Some things here are not ours to license openly. They are marked wherever they appear, and where an item carries its own credit line, that credit takes precedence over the site-wide licence above.
Logos and brand marks. The National Lottery Heritage Fund logo, the Literature Works logo and our partners’ logos are excluded and remain the property of those organisations.
The music in the films. The soundtrack of each film is licensed from Epidemic Sound for use in this project and is not covered by CC BY 4.0. If you want to reuse a film, you will need to remove or replace the music (non-music versions are available upon request from Literature Works), or license it yourself. Everything else in the films is openly licensed.
Archive material and collection images. Archive documents and collection images reproduced in the films and on this site appear by permission of the institutions that hold them, and are not covered by CC BY 4.0. Apply to the holding institution for permission to reuse them.
Work by named contributors. Commissioned writing, performance texts and printed designs remain the copyright of their authors and makers, who are named beside their work and on our Acknowledgements page.
Some of the historical material behind this project is centuries old and long out of copyright. We don’t claim any new rights in our own reproductions of it. Where the reproduction is ours, it is dedicated to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0), so you may use it freely and without attribution — though we would still like to hear about it. The same applies to project metadata and code.
Copy this line, replacing the title with the item you are using:
“[Title of the item] (2026) by Literature Works funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, licensed under CC BY 4.0”
For example:
“The Burial Record of Eulalia Page (2026) by Literature Works funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, licensed under CC BY 4.0”
Link the title back to the page it came from where you can, so readers can find the original, and keep the link to the licence. If you have changed the material — cropped an image, edited a clip, quoted an extract — say so. Put the credit where people will see it: beside the item online, in the credits of a film, on the title page of a publication, or in the caption of a printed image.
All seven films are published on our YouTube channel and embedded on this site, and each carries its attribution statement in the description and in its end credits. Because the soundtracks are licensed from a third party, the films are not marked with YouTube’s own Creative Commons setting: the CC BY 4.0 licence we grant covers the films apart from their music, as set out above.
Literature Works owns the copyright in the project’s outputs. Publishing them under an open licence doesn’t transfer ownership to anyone — it grants everyone permission to use the work on the terms above, and we keep the right to use it ourselves.
As a condition of our funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, these materials will remain publicly available for at least five years from the end of the project in September 2026. Master copies of the films are archived by Literature Works.
If you would like to use something and aren’t sure whether it’s covered, if you want to reuse material we’ve marked as belonging to someone else, if you need any of this material in an alternative format, or if you believe something has been published here in error, please email info@literatureworks.org.uk and we will respond as quickly as we can.
Last reviewed: September 2026