Republishing Policy

The Kingfish Project — kingfish.la · Effective date: July 17, 2026

How to read this policy

Plain language: Every section starts with a short summary in everyday English. The summaries help you understand; the detailed text underneath is the official version.

Each section begins with a plain-language summary, written following the Federal Plain Language Guidelines and ISO 24495-1. Summaries aid understanding; if a summary is ever inconsistent with the full text beneath it, the full text controls.

The short version

Plain language: Please republish our journalism — that’s why it exists. It’s free, including for commercial use. The license requires four things: credit us and the author, link to the original, link the license, and note any changes. Everything else on this page is a polite request.

The license

Plain language: Our original stories are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. That’s a real legal license — you don’t need to ask permission, you just need to follow it.

Unless a page states otherwise, original journalism we publish is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, redistribute, adapt, translate, and build upon it, for any purpose, including commercially, without asking us first.

The license requires that you:

1. Credit The Kingfish Project and the story’s author;
2. Link to the original story;
3. Link to the CC BY 4.0 license; and
4. Indicate if you made changes.

A credit line that satisfies all four:

This story was originally published by The Kingfish Project and is republished under a CC BY 4.0 license. [Edited for length.]

What the license doesn’t cover

Plain language: Our name and logo aren’t licensed, and neither is material we got from someone else — licensed photos, embedded video, quoted works. Government records in our archives are generally free to use anyway.

• Our marks. The Kingfish Project name and logo identify us; they may not be used in ways that imply endorsement or affiliation.
• Third-party material. Photographs we licensed from others, embedded media, and quoted copyrighted works belong to their owners. If a story contains material credited to someone other than us, clearing it — or removing it before republication — is your responsibility.
• Archive documents. Government records in our public archives are generally not subject to copyright. Check any per-document notes.

What we ask (but don’t require)

Plain language: These aren’t license conditions — just how to be a good republishing partner: tell us, point search engines at the original, and carry our corrections if we make one.

• Tell us. Email [email protected] when you republish, so we can see where the work travels.
• Canonical link. If you republish online, include a canonical tag pointing to the original, or at minimum the prominent link the license already requires.
• Carry corrections. If we correct or retract a story, we ask that your version reflect it. Watch the original, or let us notify you.
• Edit transparently. Trimming for length or house style is fine — the license requires noting changes. Don’t edit in ways that alter the story’s meaning or remove context, and don’t move our journalism under a paywall claiming it as exclusive.

Automated and bulk reuse

Plain language: Crawlers and AI systems: follow our robots.txt and llms.txt, don’t hammer the servers, and attribution still applies.

We publish machine-readable access guidance in robots.txt and llms.txt. Automated access that respects it and does not burden our infrastructure is permitted, and reuse of retrieved content remains subject to the license’s attribution requirements. For bulk or ongoing republication arrangements, contact us.

Questions

[email protected] The Kingfish Project, 1924 Albert St, Alexandria, LA 71301