Please find below the terms and conditions under which you may use Guardian and Observer content free of charge.
In summary, you are permitted to use our content without payment of a fee for the following purposes:
In a short quotation of a maximum of 100 words in length excluding advertising and endorsement purposes; or
By students in coursework or dissertations created in the course of full- or part-time study at a recognised school or university or other place of learning provided that such coursework or dissertation shall not be released for external publication in any form; or
In church or village or parish newsletters provided that in the case of articles you shall not exceed 500 words; or
Use of articles in personal, non-commercial blog- and websites subject to: i) a link back to theguardian.com website; and ii) a limit of 500 words.
You may edit our articles on the condition that their integrity is maintained and their meaning is not changed. And, you must include all bylines and links, and a credit such as “Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd”.
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1. GNM grants you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable, worldwide licence to use, publish and/or transmit GNM content (“Content”) as published in the Guardian and Observer and on the website at www.theguardian.com or any affiliate or successor website for the purposes as defined above (“Purposes”).
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3. You agree to retain: (i) the byline(s) on the Content; (ii) the original watermark, metadata and analytics code embedded in the Content; (iii) any disclaimer footnote, correction or other notice that is contained within the Content; and (iv) all links to external websites contained within the Content.
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