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 | At TED, our goal is to spread ideas. We encourage the TED community, non-profit organizations, bloggers, news media and the like to share TED Talks through social media and to embed individual talks in contextually relevant ways on non-commercial websites using embed code on TED.com. Non-commercial usage of TED Talks should follow the terms of our specific [Creative Commons license Attribution - NonCommercial - NonDerivative (BY-NC-ND)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) and the guidelines that are listed below, which may be updated from time to time. | |
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| 5 | If you are a for-profit company seeking to license TED Talks or if you'd like to create a TED-branded video offering, television series, original editorial program or other service offering, or if you'd like to use TED Talks in a corporate context, please read about how to [partner with us](https://ted.com/about/partner-with-us/bringing-ted-to-your-audience). | |
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| 7 | Please submit your licensing request using our [TED Talks media licensing request form](https://media-requests.ted.com/). | |
| 3 | At TED, our goal is to spread ideas. We encourage the TED community, non-profit organizations, bloggers, companies news media, and the like to share TED Talks that are open for distribution, through social media, other platforms and public events. While sharing ideas openly is a big part of who we are, we do license our content under certain conditions listed below. |