Copyright information - NobelPrize.org

Nobel Prize Outreach manages distribution rights to the content available on nobelprize.org: from the highly anticipated Nobel Prize announcements in October to the live broadcasts from the Nobel Prize award ceremony events in Oslo and Stockholm on 10 December, as well as exclusive video, audio and interviews with the Nobel Prize laureates.

We also have a photo archive and manage publishing rights for the Nobel Prize lectures and other Nobel Prize related texts, as well as video footage from our international events such as the Nobel Week Dialogue.

The documents and materials presented at nobelprize.org are generally protected by copyright and related rights or as trademarks and trade names. For most material, strictly editorial, educational and fair use will be permitted, provided that the credits, copyright notice and source are applied. The material may not be used in any commercial context, marketing or similar. Permission in writing from Nobel Prize Outreach or the Nobel Foundation is required, if not stated elsewhere.

For press material, please see: Use of material – for press

Nobel Prize laureate portraits

Available photos and terms of use can be found here. Strictly editorial, educational and fair use is allowed provided that the credits, copyright notice and source are applied. The material may not be used in any commercial context, marketing or similar. 

The Nobel Foundation does not distribute, nor do we extend permissions to use, most portrait photos of the Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2006 due to copyright restrictions. Starting in 2007, most of the official Nobel Prize portraits on nobelprize.org are taken in Stockholm, with full copyright held by the Nobel Foundation.

We refer you to photo agencies such as TT News Agency, Reuters, Associated Press, Getty Images or Agence France Presse to make your enquiry for other photos. Where applicable, the university or institution to which the laureates were affiliated at the time of the award may be of assistance in providing photos. Please find information regarding such affiliations in the biographical information of each Nobel Prize laureate.

Photos or images of the Nobel Prize medal

Written permission to use an image or a photo of a Nobel Prize medal is required. It is only granted if the image is going to be used as an illustration to an editorial text about Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prize or a Nobel Prize laureate. If permission is granted, “© Nobel Foundation” must be indicated.

An image of the Nobel Prize medal may not be used on the cover of books, booklets or other printed matter, on posters, in exhibitions etc., nor for publicity or commercial purposes.

Please contact [email protected] for permission.

Other photos

For uses of other photos, permission is required. Please contact [email protected] and state picture/s, usage, your publisher and title of your publication.

Footage/filmed material

For permission to use archive footage, please contact [email protected].
Note: Footage often requires a license cost.
Please provide:

Requested footage
Link to requested footage
Time codes
Your organisation
Your production title
Purpose of use: Education/Documentary/News feature/Movie/art (We can unfortunately not grant permission to use any footage of the laureates in fiction movies, series or art without their own personal approval, since it relates to the integrity of the work and their moral rights. You must obtain this approval yourself)/Other (please specify)
Rights requested: Television/VOD (Video on demand)/Theatrical/Social Media/Public showing/Exhibition/Event/Corporate video/ Other (please specify)
Requested licence period
Territory

Announcements, award ceremonies and banquet speeches

Nobel Prize Outreach administrates the publishing rights of Nobel Prize announcements in October and the footage from the Nobel Prize award ceremony events in Oslo and Stockholm on 10 December.

Note that if you are interested in filmed material/footage from

the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm for the years prior to and including 2003, please contact rightsholder SVT, [email protected]. See also https://b2b.svt.se/svt-sales/contact-us/contact-archive-sales.html
the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo for the years 1994-2004 please contact IMG Archive. 
the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo prior to 1994, please contact NRK, [email protected]. See also https://info.nrk.no/ekstern/access-nrk-archives/

Laureate interviews and discussions

The Nobel Prize archive includes a digital library of video and audio interviews with Nobel Prize laureates. These interviews provide a unique insight into some of the 20th and early 21st century’s greatest minds as they reflect on their work and lives. Nobel Prize Outreach manage and license publishing and translation rights for the laureate interviews.

To see the laureates conversing as a group, check out Nobel Prize Dialogue, Nobel Week Dialogue and Nobel Minds full-length programmes. Note: BBC and SVT hold the copyright for Nobel Minds.

BBC content https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms/can-i-use-bbc-content/

SVT Sales https://b2b.svt.se/svt-sales.html

YouTube streams

For YouTube streams, please see Streams – terms of use

Press releases, popular science background and scientific background

Strictly editorial, educational and fair use is allowed provided that the credits, copyright notice and source are applied. The material may not be used in any commercial context, marketing or similar. 

You are allowed to quote and re-publish excerpts of press releases, popular science background and scientific background from the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Prize-awarding institutions.

You may not use logotypes and Nobel Prize design marks (“the Nobel Prize medals”) (see Photos or images of the Nobel Prize medal).

For all publications in full or in major parts of popular science background and scientific background on the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and the prize in economic sciences, permission from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is required. Please contact KVA https://www.kva.se/en/contact-us/contact-form/

Copyright notices

For press releases on the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and the prize in economic sciences:
© The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

For press releases on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:
© The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet

For press releases on the Nobel Prizes in Literature:
© The Swedish Academy

For press releases on the Nobel Peace Prizes:
© The Norwegian Nobel Committee

Other credits:

Illustrations

Strictly editorial, educational and fair use is allowed provided that the credit and copyright notice found by each illustration is applied. For other usage, please contact the copyright holder.

The Nobel Prize lectures, speeches and biographies

Nobel Prize Outreach administrates the publishing rights of the Nobel Prize lectures, speeches and biographies on this site on behalf of the Nobel Foundation which hold copyright back to 1901.

For information on how to license these, please contact [email protected] and state requested text/s, usage, your publisher and title of your publication. Strictly editorial, educational and fair use is mostly permitted provided that the credits, copyright notice and source are applied. The material may not be used in any commercial context, marketing or similar.

For larger editions we generally charge a license fee.

Links from nobelprize.org

You are allowed to link to complete html pages on nobelprize.org. You are not allowed to link directly to images, videos, games, etc. that display the content out of its context. You are not allowed to alter the original content. You are not permitted to include content from nobelprize.org into other websites using frames or similar techniques, or by using page elements from nobelprize.org. Please read more under Terms of use.

Nobel Prize diplomas

The artists and calligraphers of the Nobel Prize diplomas have granted the Nobel Foundation the rights to these materials. To publish or use a reproduction of a Nobel Prize diploma, permission has to be granted by the Nobel Foundation.

To apply for a permit, please contact [email protected]. If permission is granted, “© Nobel Foundation” and the specific artist and/or calligrapher must be indicated.

Articles on nobelprize.org

For use of an article, permission from Nobel Prize Outreach, and in certain cases also from the authors, is required.

To apply for a permit, please contact [email protected]. If permission is granted, “© Nobel Prize Outreach” and in certain cases the name of the author must be indicated.

Nobel posters

For use of the Nobel posters in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and economic sciences, permission from the respective Nobel Prize-awarding institution is required.

To apply for a permit, please contact [email protected] (physics, chemistry and economic sciences posters), or [email protected] (physiology or medicine poster).

Private use

Reproductions and copies for private use are allowed.