ARIJ welcomes sharing its investigative reports in other media or websites under a Creative Commons license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This license allows you to:

• Share – Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt – Remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms:

• Attribution – Give appropriate credit to ARIJ and the author of the investigation, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial – ARIJ’s investigative reports are not to be used for commercial purposes.
• ShareAlike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the content of the investigative report, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

For the full legal code of this license, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode

All of ARIJ’s investigative reports are re-publishable. ARIJ believes in reaching a wider audience, and so we welcome resharing  our reports with attributed credit. Many of our media partners are already doing so. By republishing or sharing content from this website under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, you agree to the terms and conditions outlined above.

All items are re-publishable. Several  examples of how the media share and respect ARIJ’s reports can be seen in the following:

• Middle East Eye: ARIJ has been mentioned as a source 5 times in this report.
• The New Arab ARIJ has been mentioned as a source 10 times in this report.
• Open Democracy This report mentions that this investigation is produced with the support of ARIJ.
• The Intercept ARIJ is referenced clearly in this report.

Below are several samples of how to write attributions, along with templates you can adapt accordingly. This includes all of ARIJ’s project content, such as investigative reports, in-depth reports, policy papers, and research studies, unless otherwise specified. For instance, images provided to ARIJ by photographers and media for our investigations are not included, as the rights belong to their original authors. In such cases, you must obtain consent from the authors before using the images. If you have any questions, please reach out via our contact us page.