As the title suggests, Sightline’s work--including our graphics, books, articles, and reports--is free to use. We encourage you to use it freely and share it widely! Our aim is to be a one-stop-shop for good thinking--complete with facts, tools, visuals, and language--on how to build healthy, lasting prosperity in Cascadia.

Overview

Sightline Institute holds copyrights to its books, reports, articles, Daily Score weblog posts, maps, charts, graphs, tables, animations, and all other original content found on the Sightline websites, unless otherwise noted.

We encourage your use and distribution of this work, and ask only that you attribute it to Sightline Institute (i.e. give us credit), ask our written permission for reprints of written work, and that you do not modify or use our work for commercial purposes without our permission. We also ask that in cases where our written permission is not required, you drop us a note at ask-us@sightline.org letting us know how you’re using our work. Details are below.

Sightline’s Free Use Policy

By downloading, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring our work, you agree to the following policy and as such are free to copy, distribute, and display Sightline’s work, subject to the following conditions:

Attribution
You must attribute the work you are using to Sightline Institute. This attribution, or notice of copyright, may be in the form of our logo (maps, charts, and graphs available from this site include the logo already), or in text form similar to the following:

“From [title of book, report, article, blog post, or web page], by [author or Sightline Institute], copyright [year] Sightline Institute, Seattle; used with permission.”

Noncommercial vs. commercial use
You may use our work for noncommercial use. If you would like to use it for commercial purposes (e.g. in a book, online or magazine or newspaper, fee-based website, or in support of any other commercial venture), you may ask for written permission from Sightline Institute (see "Permission" below).

Derivative works
You may use only verbatim copies or excerpts of our work, not derivative or modified versions of it.

Maps, charts, and other graphics
Many of our maps, charts, tables, animations, and other graphics are available for free download--in our Maps & Graphics Center (high-resolution versions require free registration). You may distribute and display these electronically and in print for non-commercial purposes without our written permission, though please let us know how you are using our work.

Text-based work
Most of our books, reports, articles, blog posts, and other original written work are available for free viewing or download on Sightline's websites (some require free registration). If you would like to re-publish, online or in print, in whole or in part, any of our text-based work, you must get written or email permission from Sightline Institute (see "Permission" below).

Permission
While Sightline does not charge for use of its copyrights, we do require permission in some cases (see above).  To obtain permission, please send an email to Elisa Murray, communications director, at ask-us@sightline.org. One exception: Sierra Club Books owns the rights to our book Seven Wonders, so you need to check with them for permission to reprint excerpts. Fax your request with the pertinent information to 415-977-5792, or mail to:

Permissions Department
Sierra Club Books
85 Second Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Keep Sightline informed
While we do not require permission for some forms or uses of our work, we do like to know how it's being used so that we can continue to create effective tools for education and advocacy. Please drop us a note at ask-us@sightline.org  to let us know how you are using our work, and what else you'd like to see.

Some rights reserved
Sightline Institute offers permission to use our work at its sole discretion and reserves the right to revoke or deny permission to anyone at anytime for any reason.