Copyright & Takedowns

Airchive owns or licenses the original site design, editorial copy, page assembly, and structured datasets unless a page says otherwise. Historical aircraft names, airline marks, manufacturer marks, and third-party materials remain the property of their respective owners.

Airchive is designed around sourced reference writing rather than bulk republication. Pages should point readers toward primary source material, not replace it. Source and methodology expectations are described in the site's Sources page.

If Airchive learns that hosted material should not remain published because of a credible ownership, licensing, privacy, or legality issue, the site may remove the material, narrow access, or replace it with a corrected version while the issue is reviewed.

Because the current public release does not yet provide open user-upload tools, Airchive can handle most copyright risk by controlling what is published in the first place. Any future upload or submission system should launch with a dedicated notice-and-takedown intake channel and repeat infringer process before public posting is enabled.

Short quotations with attribution and a link back to the source page are generally acceptable. Wholesale copying, deceptive mirroring, or use that strips away source context is not.