Copyright
Copyright & DMCA Policy
Morbid Index publishes original editorial writing. Some articles also use third-party images and quotations when the rights status allows it. Third-party material remains the property of its rights holder. Showing it here is not a claim that Morbid Index owns it.
Last updated: October 28, 2026.
How we use images and quotations
Historical and folklore articles prefer public-domain works and files with licenses that allow reuse, such as certain Creative Commons licenses, with creator, source and license stated in the caption and article data. A short quotation may be used to discuss a text. Promotional stills, if used, are identified as such and are not relabeled as public domain.
Send a copyright notice
If you believe material on this site infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to act for, email contact@morbidindex.com with the subject “Copyright notice.” A complete notice should include:
- your name and contact details, and your relationship to the rights at issue;
- identification of the copyrighted work, or a representative list if several works are involved;
- the exact Morbid Index URL and where on the page the material appears;
- a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the rights holder, an agent or the law;
- a statement that the notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them, under penalty of perjury; and
- your physical or electronic signature.
These are the elements a DMCA takedown notice is expected to contain under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). Sending a notice does not by itself remove the material. We review the page, the rights information we have, and the request. This page does not register a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, and it does not promise a response time.
Other image-rights concerns
If a credit, license or depiction is wrong but you are not sending a copyright notice, use the same email address and include the URL, the correction and a source we can check. Factual image errors are handled through our corrections process.
Morbid Index material
Original Morbid Index text, site design and original selection of material are protected. For permission to reuse our writing, email contact@morbidindex.com. A reuse request for a third-party image should go to the creator or rights holder named in the credit, not only to us.
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