Usage and Permissions

The Family Values @ Work Consortium is the copyright holder of all content of the Working Families Story Bank.  However, we grant usage rights to our stories as described below.



I am a policy maker, educator, or health field professional.  May I use photos and audio stories from the Working Families Story Bank?

Policy makers, educators, and health field professionals, as well as members of the media, are encouraged to hyperlink to our stories on websites and reports.  We also encourage the playing of our audio stories at policy sessions, conferences and workshops, and in classrooms.  Storytellers may also be available to testify at public hearings, town halls, and conferences.  A contact has been provided for each story in our collection.

One thumbnail image from the Working Families Story Bank may be used for a hyperlinked web banner to hyperlink to any page within the Working Families Story Bank.

Any inclusion of Working Families Story Bank content or stories as part of a larger collection of stories requires our express permission.

As a policy maker, if you require photos, audio files, or transcripts of any of the stories in the Working Families Story Bank beyond the uses described above, please contact us at info[at]FamilyValuesAtWork.org.

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But do I have to contact you prior to using a story?

Though not required for the purposes described above, we do request that you contact us at info[at]FamilyValuesAtWork.org to let us know about your intended use.

Our storytellers appreciate knowing when their stories have enhanced understanding about a policy issue that has affected their lives.   And because our storytellers have generously offered to avail apects of their lives in the interest of improving civic dialogue, we want to do our best to let them know how their stories are being used.  By contacting us, we can also help ensure that there have been no material changes in a storyteller’s circumstances prior to your using their story.

Any inclusion of Working Families Story Bank content or stories as part of a larger collection of stories requires our express permission.

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May I use the stories as part of an advocacy campaign?

We encourage the sharing of our stories for use in enhancing public understanding of policy issues affecting working families.  Some of our stories have already been shared at town halls, workshops, and community meetings, with law makers and the media, and as public testimonies with legislators.

Our web-based stories can be hyperlinked from Facebook pages, featured on your website, twittered, and hyperlinked on your blog and other social networking sites.

Social networking tools at the bottom of each story page enable you to Digg the story, Buzz It Up, and actively move the story through the web.

Grassroots organizing, education, and advocacy groups may use one thumbnail image from the Working Families Story Bank (per organization or website) for a hyperlinked web banner directed to any page within the Working Families Story Bank.

Any inclusion of Working Families Story Bank content or stories as part of a larger collection of stories requires our express permission.

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I want to do more than hyperlink to the Working Families Story Bank.  I want to use or repurpose the actual content.  For instance, I want to use your images, capture your audio, mash, or otherwise use content of this site for my own site and/or media production.

Uses of the Working Families Story Bank content are limited to the purposes outlined above, and may not be used for derivative works.

You may not alter, transform, or build upon the content of this story bank.

You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

You may not obtain content of this story bank through capture software.  Any use of content beyond hyperlinking, permitted use of images for web banners or by members of the media as described on this page, requires our express permission.

Any inclusion of Working Families Story Bank content or stories as part of a larger collection of stories requires our express permission.

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I am a member of the print or broadcast media.  May I use the photos and audio stories?

Press inquiries can be directed to the contact indicated on each storyteller’s page.  Though our written permission for media reprint of images and rebroadcast of audio (outside of hyperlinking) is required, we will respond to press and broadcast inquiries quickly and will usually grant the media re-usage rights for Working Families Story Bank content.

The use of one portrait image from the Working Families Story Bank per blog or website is permitted specifically to create a hyperlinked web banner directed to any page within the Working Families Story Bank.

Any inclusion of Working Families Story Bank content or stories as part of a larger collection of stories requires our express permission.

All uses of our story bank content not expressly described in this section by the print or broadcast media require our express permission.  For inquiries please contact us at info[at]FamilyValuesAtWork.org.