Read First
Stacker believes in making the world’s data more accessible through storytelling. To that end, most of Stacker’s stories are freely available for republication under a Creative Commons license, and we encourage you to share our stories with your audience. There are some guidelines and restrictions, which you can review below.
To publish, simply take the HTML code or text on the left and paste it into your CMS. In doing so, you agree to the following guidelines.
- Attribution: Be sure to always cite Stacker as the original source of the story and retain all hyperlinks within the republished text, whether to Stacker, our data sources, or other citations. Always incorporate a link to the original version of the article on the Stacker website. Also, always indicate that the article has been republished pursuant to a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and include a hyperlink to the following URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1. To avoid posting duplicate content, we also ask that you point the canonical tag to the original article noted in the code. Click here to learn more about canonical tags, and if you have any technical questions, please let us know.
- Editions and derivative works: We invite you to publish our story verbatim on your website. But you can also make copy edits, retitle the article, extract specific paragraphs, or put the story in your own voice. Just attribute Stacker, link back and note the types of edits that were made.
- Non-Commercial Use: Stacker stories may only be used for editorial purposes. As long as they run in an editorial context, you can run ads against them. However, you may not resell our items, sublicense them, charge for access, or syndicate them on any aggregation platform, including but not limited to Apple News, NewsBreak, MSN, or Google News.
- Elements: Visual elements, including photographs and graphics, accompanying our stories are not included in this license, and the rights to all image content must be protected separately from Stacker or the applicable rights holder. If you are interested in becoming a Stacker distribution partner and receiving rights to use the images that accompany a story, please email us at [email protected].
- Storyteller: We include a Javascript snippet in the code so we can keep track of where our stories are published. This is critical to keeping Stacker’s journalism freely available. We only track the URL and the number of pages viewed, no user information is collected.
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Stacker distribution partners
receive a license for all Stacker stories, as well as image rights, data visualizations, advance planning tools, and more. If your organization is interested in becoming a Stacker distribution partner, please email us at [email protected].
Stacker provides its items as and is available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind. In no event shall Stacker be liable to you for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary or other losses, costs, expenses or damages arising out of this Creative Commons License or your use of the Stacker Articles.
