Content licencing policy
We are finalising and changing our licensing policy. These changes will enter in force on 13 June, 2025. Visiting the website, our social media channels are free and we would like to keep all channels free from any charge to support our beloved hobby. However, operation costs keep increasing whilst we have no external funding or any direct third party income from our mission. This is why we had to review how our audio-visual materials are being used, sometimes abused by third parties.
From June 13, 2025 a new licencing policy is introduced on our platform: Rights of re-publication, re-use and re-purpose of our materials remain available, but conditions are changing.
RCHELICOPTERHUB.COM and RCHELICOPTER.HU together are a mission to promote, help our RC helicopter hobby since 2010. We would like to keep these services running, and we would like to continue supporting businesses and individuals with our contents in the future as well - conditions are discretional, individually negotiated in all cases. But in all other scenarios we had to revise how our media contents are used by third parties.
It is not a big secret, vast majority of the content we publish (photos, videos, articles) are produced by us. All other contents are sourced legally, in many cases we pay license fees for components we use, for software products we apply or operate. Some may think; what we are doing is free, but each photo, each video costs us more or less. Sometimes pennies, more times much more. The remaining, minority of external contents fall under fair usage policy. This is why we kindly ask you to follow our licensing policy.
Re-posting, sharing our image contents without any alteration remains free: Feel free to download, or re-upload our photos, but should you keep everything unchanged. This includes cropping, removing watermarks, changing colours, modifying metadata information. Due to technical reasons we accept that these images may need to be resized. As long as the watermark remains visible, you can resize them. This applies entirely on personal and social media use. For business use, we kindly ask you to contact us. Alternatively we ask you to display a photo credit.
Re-posting, sharing our image contents with any alteration: This is not free in the future - with only ONE exception: As long as you use the image for yourself, and you are the solely person recognisable on the picture, you are allowed to use that without watermark strictly on your social media platform. In all other cases you must obtain a license from us, otherwise it will be considered as unlicensed commercial use resulting legal actions:
- We may invoice 300 GBP for each image used illegally
- We may initiate a court case against you
Video contents: You are permitted to use any video contents from our channels by embedding into your websites, also you can share, refer these videos without our expressed consent. When the video is explicitly permitted to be remixed, you are allowed to re-use segments or the video as a whole in your own video project. You are in now way permitted to re-upload any videos, video segments without your own reasonable context. You are not permitted the remove watermarks, brand identifications from our videos, unless we have an exclusive agreement. You shall not use images from our websites or social media channels for your video thumbnails (see above at image licensing). Not complying these rules results immediate copyright strike (not claim) against your video channel with the highest consequences possible and we reserve the rights to file legal claims. Reasonable fair use policy considered.
Written contents: You may copy and re-publish our contents partially/entirely without our consent if you do so for referencing our original contents. Fair use policy considered in all cases. You shall not copy/re-publish any written contents from our websites or channels without our expressed consent. Any unauthorised use will not be tolerated and may result legal actions:
- We may invoice 150 GBP for each article used illegally
- We may initiate a court case against you
Downloadable contents: Files, documents to be downloaded can be re-distributed, re-published. We kindly ask you to display the source. You are not permitted to collect any fee for documents or files downloaded from us.
Artificial Intelligence use
We DO NOT permit any AI models to process our contents without our formally expressed consent. Training AI models, re-purposing our contents is strictly prohibited. Using data of the website as information source is permitted for AI models. Like an AI can refer to us as an information source, but cannot use our articles as template for content generation. Breaching this policy by any AI provider will initiate immediate legal actions. We strictly monitor our web traffic and any sort of mass request will be investigated.
ALL PUBLISHED MATERIALS ARE PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAWS! ALL RIGHTS RESERVED!
Last updated: 9 June, 2025.