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ARRL Logos Use

• ARRL members and Affiliated clubs may use the ARRL diamond logo on their own personal QSL cards, stationery, club signs, business cards and websites.
   
• ARRL Life Members may use the Life Member logo on their own personal QSL cards, stationery, business cards and webites.
   
• Special Service Clubs may use the Special Service Club logo on their stationery, club signs and websites.
   
• ARES members may use the ARES logo on their own personal QSL cards, stationery, business cards and web pages.
   
• National Traffic System members may use the NTS logo on their own personal QSL cards, stationery, business cards and web pages.
   
• ARRL logos and images MAY NOT be used on any items intended for sale (shirts, mugs, calendars, etc), or as part of advertising or other commercial promotion including websites, eBay listings, etc. If you are interested in purchasing a license to use ARRL logos or imagery in this fashion, contact Creative Services by email. 
   
• ARRL logos and images MAY NOT be modified in any way or incorporated within any other logo design.

Please contact ARRL to request permission and for any other use of ARRL logos.

Yes. This type of use falls under what is called the "fair use" provision of copyright law. You don't need to ask our permission to do this.

You must request permission in writing from the ARRL or email us:

permission@arrl.org

A line of text must declare the ARRL copyright.
Eg: "Reprinted with the permission of the ARRL. Copyright ARRL."

No. That is a violation of our copyright. The ARRL grants three exceptions, however.

• QST, QEX or NCJ authors are permitted to post copies of their published articles on their personal Web sites.
• ARRL Affiliated Clubs can post QST, QEX or NCJ articles on their websites on a temporary basis.
• Dealers and manufacturers that advertise in QST may post and distribute copies of QST Product Reviews of items they sell or manufacture.

You must request permission from the ARRL in writing or by sending an email to:

permission@arrl.org

A line of text must declare the ARRL copyright.
Eg: "Reprinted with the permission of the ARRL. Copyright ARRL."

No. That is a violation of our copyright.

No, but you may link to the ARRL story.

Yes--as long as you are selling only the item you actually purchased, not copies of the item.

You cannot scan an ARRL publication and then sell those scans on a CD or other media unless the publication was published before 1924. That would be a violation of our copyright.

ARRL owns all rights to the material as published. That is, we own exclusive rights to the item in the form in which it is published in an ARRL book, website, magazine or any other ARRL media. This includes photographs, the manner in which the text and photos are arranged, etc. We acquire these exclusive rights because we have agreements with our International Amateur Radio Union sister societies that allow them to reprint anything we publish without copyright infringement. Also, we often use published materials for other purposes and therefore cannot have them encumbered by conflicting ownership.
 

ARRL does not own rights to the ideas presented in published materials (Eg: antenna design). We also do not own the rights to a particular device or software described in a book or article.
 

The copyright ARRL owns applies to the way in which we publish an author’s work.

You can reproduce information from the Repeater Directory on your website, but you cannot do it in the same format as a Repeater Directory page.
 

The same applies to factual information you may find in other ARRL publications. For instance, you can republish a list of RF loss specifications for coaxial cable that you may have seen in the ARRL Handbook, but your list can't look like the list in the ARRL Handbook.

Yes. We only ask that you give credit to the ARRL as the source.

Yes. The copyright applies to all past and present ARRL publications. All ARRL publications published from 1924 to the present day are protected by copyright.

In most cases, it is still protected by copyright.

A publication does not have to be included in the copyright database to be protected. Under current copyright law, when any item of intellectual property is created (music, the written word, art, etc) it is automatically protected; it does not need to be registered. If an ARRL publication is not listed in the copyright database, that doesn't mean it is in the public domain. On the contrary, if the work is published after 1924, chances are it is protected.

Here is a brief, informative article from Stanford University: 

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/copyright-basics/#how_long_does_a_copyright_last