Editorial restrictions🔒(Photos and Videos)

Editorial restrictions🔒(Photos and Videos)

Written by Marie Abraham
Last update: Thursday, Jun 19, 2025

 In this article, you will find all the existing restrictions concerning the photos and videos available on AFP News:

1) Photo instructions

All the following ones are restricted to editorial use + 1 or several specific restrictions

  • To be used to report on current events and/ or to illustrate a subject of public interest.

  • No corporate communication, no adversiting, no fiction, no entertainment, no gambling, no betting

2) Video restrictions

A restricted video is marked up like this:

Territorial restrictions:

  • Germany out: the content cannot be used by a client based in Germany or in a program or service targeted at a German audience.

  • No access from Germany: The public in Germany cannot have access to the content.

  • No access from Germany-mandatory geo-blocking: The public in Germany cannot have access to the content and geo-blocking is specifically requested when the content is made available using a technology that supports geo-blocking.

Clients restrictions:

  • No use by xx: The client xx must not use the content.

Time restrictions:

  • No use after xx: The content cannot be broadcast or published by clients after said date. The content published online by clients before the expiration date need not be removed from clients' digital properties, if it remains online in the same form and within the same original context.

  • Mandatory take down after xx: The content cannot be broadcast or published by clients after said date. Content published online by clients needs to be removed from clients' digital properties after said date.

  • Embargo until xx: Do not use before the set time or any other condition stated.

 Usage restrictions:

  • Editorial use only: To be used to report on current events and/or to illustrate a subject of public interest. No corporate communication, no advertising, no fiction, no entertainment, no gambling, no betting.

  • In the context of the event only: Content to be used only to report on the event.

  • No cropping, no resizing, no overlay: No cropping/resizing/overlay is allowed

  • News bulletins only: To be used to report on current events only. No corporate communication, no advertising, no fiction, no entertainment, no gambling, no betting, no documentaries, no magazines, no talk shows.

  • No use of soundtrack separately: The soundtrack cannot be used separately.

  • Mandatory on-screen credit: On-screen credit must be added or maintained.

  • Mandatory credit: Credit must be added in the manner chosen by the TV channel or the publisher.

Restrictions per market segment:

  • No digital: No use on digital media properties, including online, mobile, wireless, social media (if requested by the source, we can be more specific with no web, or no mobile, or no social media...).

  • No xx: A specific segment is excluded (for example: ‘no web’; ‘no mobile’; ‘no social media’).

  • Broadcast only: Broadcast only on TV channels and simulcast & recast only on TV channels' branded digital media properties.

  • For AFP Subscribers only (formerly «no resale»): No “a la carte” license; no use by subscribers of AFP distributors or a la carte clients of AFP distributors.

  • Distributed as a service to subscribers: AFP neither owns the IP in the content, nor has a license from the owner of the content. Does not concern images released by institutions.

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