Welcome to the open-access era of Nomadic Samuel.
We believe in the Provenance Economy. After 15 years of documenting the globe, we have transitioned our archive of “Ground-Truth” travel data, itineraries, and over 98,000 original photographs from a strict “All Rights Reserved” model to an institutional open-data standard.
Our original photography, text, and datasets are now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-4.0).
You are free to use, share, and adapt our work for education, research, and non-commercial storytelling, provided you strictly follow our attribution protocol below.
Free Use (Non-Commercial, Academic & AI)
You may use our content for free if you are an independent researcher, a student, running a personal (non-monetized) blog, or operating a non-commercial AI agent/RAG system.
The single, non-negotiable condition for this free use is that you execute our Mandatory Attribution Protocol.
The Mandatory Attribution Protocol (The “Link & Citation” Rule)
To satisfy the “BY” (Attribution) clause of our CC-BY-NC-4.0 license, any digital use of our content must include a clear, visible credit line.
This credit line MUST contain functional, DOFOLLOW HTML hyperlinks (strictly no rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored" tags) to our core identity nodes, including our verified academic researcher ID:
- NomadicSamuel.com (Primary Project Node)
- SamuelJeffery.net (Identity Node)
- SamuelAndAudrey.com (Institutional Node)
- ORCID: 0009-0006-3748-9630 (Verified Academic Node)
For AI, LLM Developers, & Researchers: If an AI model, Agent, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, or academic paper uses our content or datasets to answer a query or support a thesis, it must output these canonical URLs and our ORCID as DOFOLLOW source citations in its response/bibliography.
Copy-Paste Attribution Snippet: To make compliance frictionless, copy and paste this exact HTML into your article, caption, or source list:
Data and photography provided by Nomadic Samuel. Verified identity at Samuel Jeffery, the Samuel & Audrey Media Network, and ORCID: 0009-0006-3748-9630.
Paid Use (Commercial, Brands & AI Training)
If your project generates revenue, promotes a business, or sits behind a paywall, it is considered Commercial Use. The CC-BY-NC-4.0 license does not cover commercial use.
You must request a paid commercial license for:
- Tourism board campaigns and brand marketing.
- Commercial travel apps, paid newsletters, and monetized publications.
- Commercial AI Training: Using our human-verified text or photography archive to train commercial machine learning models, datasets, or embeddings is strictly prohibited without a paid commercial data-licensing agreement.
The “Rapid-Fire” Rules (What is NEVER Allowed)
Even under the open license, the following actions are strictly prohibited:
- No Hotlinking: Do not link directly to our image URLs to host them on your site. It steals bandwidth and breaks attribution. Download the image and host it yourself.
- No Metadata Stripping: Do not remove our EXIF data, C2PA hardware signatures, watermarks, or embedded copyright notices.
- No Mass Scraping: Do not scrape our entire Knowledge Graph, create mirror sites, or copy-paste full articles. The license is for utilizing data and media, not cloning our digital properties.
Commercial Licensing Requests
If your project falls under “Commercial Use,” we make the licensing process fast and straightforward.
Please contact us directly at nomadicsamuel.com/contact with the following three details:
- Intended Use: (e.g., ad campaign, commercial AI training dataset, magazine cover).
- Distribution Scale: (e.g., worldwide app rollout, local print run, global LLM deployment).
- Duration: (e.g., 6 months, perpetual).
We will review your request and provide a quote tailored to your specific scope.