TED Talks Usage Policy

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1	1	About › [Our Organization](https://ted.com/about/our-organization) › [Our policies + terms](https://ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms) ›
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	3	## TED Talks Usage Policy
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3	5	## Usage policy sections
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5	7	[Personal Use (Non-Commercial)]()
6	8	[Commercial / Corporate Use]()
7	9	[Projecting TED Talks to a group]()
8	10	[Media requests]()
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24	26	- Type of site/company: Bloggers, news/information websites and nonprofits (by which we mean registered 501(c)3 organizations in the United States, and the equivalent in all other countries), may share one or more TED Talks under a Creative Commons license, provided that they follow the rest of the guidelines on this page, and sharing the TED Talks is not the central purpose of your site. This means that we expect the usage under Creative Commons to be for the purpose of sharing ideas, not to use TED Talks as the main content for your site, which generates revenue or other sources of income (including from ads) that relies on content we are providing. If you are interested in licensing TED Talks for other purposes, or for general usage, please contact us for more details.
25	27	- Transcripts and subtitles may be used under the same Creative Commons license in conjunction with the TED Talk video. Copyright on the transcripts is owned by TED and any edits, alternate usage rights or changes to these documents are not permitted without permission. Therefore, if you wanted to publish a TED Talk in a book, test, play, or any other publication, permission is required.
26	28	- Video player: You must use the TED embeddable player. This allows us to further our overall mission by tracking video usage. Scraping video from TED.com is not permitted.
27	29	- Attribution: You must attribute TED as the owner of the TED Talk and add a visible link back to TED.com
28	30	- Running talks in their entirety: You may not edit TED Talks, or alter them in any way, including by sharing truncated versions or clips. This is essential for preserving the integrity of the speaker's ideas.
29		- Lists on blogs and articles: If you are posting a blog or article that contains curations of TED Talks that can be easily integrated by an organization into its learning program (e.g. talks relating to leadership, DEI, wellness, etc.), which constitutes commercial use, please include the following attribution and link to TED@Work: For more information on these topics and how TED can be used for corporate learning, please visit [https://tedatwork.ted.com](https://tedatwork.ted.com/)/
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33	34	## Commercial / Corporate Use
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35	36	Using a TED Talk in a commercial context requires a license. This type of use is not limited to uses that generate profit, but includes employee learning, on an intranet system, at a company event, in training materials, within a TED-branded video offering or editorial program, in tv/film including documentaries, in an online or virtual course, in a podcast, and more. Non-profit or educational institutions may also require licenses if the use is commercial in nature.