Contributor Release

Pilot draft. Subject to legal review.

This release explains what happens when you add your piece to a Storyline.

Ownership

You keep ownership of your story, photo, artwork, poem, audio, video, document, place note, or other material.

Permission to use your contribution

You give Storyline and the Storyline steward or organization permission to review, store, display, publish, excerpt, and share your contribution as part of the Storyline you contributed to.

Possible uses

If approved, your contribution may appear on the public Storyline page, in embedded Storyline displays, and in related materials such as reports, presentations, newsletters, social posts, printed pieces, slideshows, story packets, or documentary-style outputs.

Sharing a story does not endorse the collection organization's positions. A personal account or AI-generated reconstruction is not verified evidence by itself. Uses beyond this release, including submitting an attributed opinion or objection on your behalf to a regulator, require separate purpose-specific permission.

Editing

We may make light edits for formatting, length, clarity, spelling, accessibility, or layout. We will not intentionally change the meaning of what you shared.

AI-generated images

If you do not have photographs of these moments to provide, you may ask Storyline to use OpenAI to create three photographic-style images from your story, optional direction, and optional reference photos. You review the results and may attach any, all, or none of them. Each attached image will be clearly disclosed as AI-generated, not a photograph of the event, and will still require steward review before publication. This is not proof that the depicted scene or details happened exactly as shown.

Credit

You choose how your name appears where the product offers a credit choice. If you choose anonymous credit, public pages should show "Anonymous contributor."

Permission to share

Please only share material that you created or have permission to share. Do not include private information about others unless you have their permission.

Removal requests

You can ask us to remove your contribution from future online use. During the pilot, contact the collection owner through the story form or email lab@drknyt.com with the collection name and contribution details. We may not be able to remove it from materials already printed, downloaded, exported, shared, or published before your request.

Clarification

Storyline or the Storyline steward may contact you about your contribution if clarification or additional permission is needed.