Image sources & licenses

Copyrighted legacy atlas (Thomas Habif). Widely circulated via the Kaggle 'Dermnet Skin Disease' dataset for ML classification. Redistribution terms unclear/restrictive; treat as copyrighted.

CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 + DermNet-specific additional terms: watermark must be preserved, active hyperlink to the source topic page required, non-commercial only, no AI training. See IMAGES.md §DermNet and dermnetnz.org/copyright.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Per-image license is visible in the metadata; attribution must include contributing institution.

Site-specific license: 'All images are free to use for non-comercial purposes, it's required to provide a link to the website.' Effectively CC-BY-NC with link-back requirement. Copyright: Samuel Freire da Silva, MD.

Educational use permitted — per user review 2026-04-18. Attribution to Black and Brown Skin / Malone Mukwende expected. No formal CC tag.

Educational use — per user review 2026-04-18. Attribution expected; no formal CC tag on site.

Generally public domain (US federal government work). Some third-party images have per-image restrictions — check per image.

Per site: 'if you are a non-commercial, educational institution (such as a university), we grant the right to reproduce the images e.g. as slides or to publicly display the images free of charge. No prior approval is necessary, but we ask you to acknowledge the image source Dermatology Image Atlas.' Commercial or non-institutional uses not permitted.

Watermarked images only: non-commercial educational use permitted. Per site: 'You may use only the watermarked images, unless given written permission otherwise, for printed and/or electronic non-commercial, clinical and/or educational use. This includes consulting, lectures, and other teaching materials presented within an academic institution, academic setting, and/or clinic. When using an image, the watermark must remain intact. This means the watermark is not to be removed or altered in any way. All source references should indicate, on the same page as images: Image source: The Full Spectrum of Dermatology: A Diverse and Inclusive Atlas'. Publisher: JDD / sponsored by Galderma and Cetaphil.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Any derivative work we publish must also be CC-BY-NC-SA.

Mostly public domain (NIH federal work). Per-image check for third-party content.

Thumbnails considered fair use per site (Perfect 10 v. Amazon). Linking permitted with 'courtesy of PathologyOutlines.com' credit and no paywalling of linked content. Full-size image re-hosting NOT permitted.

Per site: 'a multidisciplinary public access image database for use in medical education' and 'digital images can be used by educators and institutions for non-profit educational activities' with attribution required to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Pathology.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. Explicit: 'Site visitors (including health care professionals who wish to distribute materials to patients) may duplicate portions of this site for personal or educational use without seeking permission from the authors.' Commercial use requires written authorization from the contributor.

Educational use granted. Per site: 'The gallery is available to all interested parties, including patients and families, medical trainees and other learners, and practicing physicians and other health care professionals.' Site also discloses: 'This Atlas is organized by Fitzpatrick skin type which was estimated from patient photographs by our team … We recognize that this scale has many limitations, including its subjectivity and lack of variance in skin of color.' No explicit Creative Commons tag; treating as educational-use-permitted with attribution to UNM Inclusive Dermatology.

Per-article license. CC-BY and CC-BY-NC-ND common; CC-BY-ND and mixed variants exist. Record per-article license.

Per-file license: CC-0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA predominantly. Must record per-image license and author.

Professional society. Education page returned 403 at review time; most detailed resources are member-only. Public image atlases not confirmed.

No explicit license text on homepage. UCLA-hosted interactive dermpath learning platform with quizzes and custom test creation. A General Disclaimer link exists but not captured.

No explicit reuse license located on site. Cases stored as Adobe PDF files; includes ~200 'must know' cases for dermatology boards across inflammatory, neoplastic, and iatrogenic categories.

No explicit license (server-side fetch failed at last check). Educational-use-accepted historically.

No explicit license on site. Dermatopathology content present (cutaneous leiomyomatosis, dermal lymphocytic infiltrates, cutaneous lesions). Default copyright applies.

Personal educational reference by Dr Paul W Bishop (Consultant Histopathologist, University Hospital of South Manchester). Describes immunoreactivity of tumours. Distributed as Windows .chm help file, PDA .pdb, and a web version. No explicit reuse license on site; default copyright applies. Last updated 2012.

© Josef Feit, MDgK-plus. No explicit reuse license on site. Educational use likely intended given academic hosting but requires written permission.

© 2025 Institut für Pathologie Basel / Dr. med. Katharina Glatz-Krieger. No explicit reuse license on site. PathoPic is the image database arm: 11,000+ microscopic tissue images organized by diagnosis, topography, stain, and magnification.

No license text visible at time of review. Offers 'Educational Whole-Slide-Images for Pathologists' including dermpath cases. Free/subscription tier unclear.

Varies — some open resources, some member-only. No blanket image license.

Access blocked at CDN/bot level at review time; could not capture terms. Publicly accessible via normal browser. Publisher: Nat Pernick, MD (same founder as PathologyOutlines).

Commercial Elsevier platform; institutional or personal subscription required. Personal viewing only.

Login required — minimal public metadata. Whole-slide-image sharing and presentation platform used by pathologists.

Personal, non-commercial use only. Per site: 'By accessing the images you have a non-exclusive licence to use them for personal, non-commercial purposes including private study, self-study and continuous professional development. No other uses are permitted. All images used must be used in their current format – they cannot be cropped or edited and the Skin Deep logo must stay on them. If you wish to use the images for commercial purposes including research, you must submit a request to hello@dftbskindeep.com.' Publishing on a public educational website likely falls outside 'personal use'; host only locally.

Commercial; institutional or personal subscription required. Personal viewing only — no redistribution, no hosting of screenshots or derivative content.

Institutional subscribers only. Verbatim from VisualDx terms: 'If you are using or accessing the Software through an institutional subscriber, you may copy or link to images and content contained in the Software for your clinical or educational use but only for consulting with individual colleagues, patient, student and staff education, inclusion in a patient's electronic health records (EHR), and inclusion in educational materials (lectures, handouts, and other teaching materials) presented within your institution. Educational material containing images and content from the Software may be added to your institution's centralized, institutional learning management systems so long as the images and content remain within the context of access-controlled, specific course material within your own institution. You may not crop, expand, edit, or otherwise modify or alter any images contained in the Software, and VisualDx's copyright watermark notice on images must remain intact and visible wherever the image appears and must include the source reference: Image source: VisualDx (visualdx.com). All educational material containing images or content from the Software must be deleted from your institution's centralized, institutional learning management systems upon termination of your institution's license.'

Per site: 'The contents and design, including images, in this resource are protected under U.S. Copyright © 1994-2026 … All rights reserved worldwide.' and 'WebPath® is for your personal and noncommercial use. No one may modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, or publish any materials contained in WebPath® without prior written permission.'

© 2017 Dermpathatlas, All Rights Reserved. Explicit per terms: 'No part of any material published on this site may be copied, downloaded, stored in a retrieval system, or redistributed for any other purpose without the expressed written permission.' Non-commercial educational use NOT explicitly permitted — requires written approval for student projects, textbooks, journals, brochures, posters, or other media.

Open-access CC-BY-NC-ND. Review article — contains curated list of dermpath atlases but no clinical images for reuse. Citation: Mukosera et al., JAAD International 2023. DOI 10.1016/j.jdin.2022.12.007.

On review, Dermweb is a hub of links to other atlases rather than a primary image source. Not an ingest target.