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title: About MegaPixels
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published: 2018-12-04
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authors: Adam Harvey

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# About MegaPixels

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<li><a class="current" href="/about/">About</a></li>
<li><a href="/about/press/">Press</a></li>
<li><a href="/about/legal/">Legal / Privacy</a></li>
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MegaPixels is an independent art and research project by Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace that investigates the ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of face recognition datasets and their role in commercial, academic, and military use of biometric surveillance technologies.

ATTRIBUTION PROTOCOL

If you use the MegaPixels data or any data derived from it, please cite the original work as follows:

<pre>
@online{megapixels,
  author = {Harvey, Adam. LaPlace, Jules.},
  title = {MegaPixels: Origins, Ethics, and Privacy Implications of Publicly Available Face Recognition Image Datasets},
  year = 2019,
  url = {https://megapixels.cc/},
  urldate = {2019-04-20}
}
</pre>

and include this license and attribution protocol within any derivative work.

If you publish data derived from MegaPixels, the original dataset creators should first be notified.

The MegaPixels dataset is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/) and for academic use only.

READABLE SUMMARY OF Open Data Commons Attribution License 

You are free:

    To Share: To copy, distribute and use the dataset
    To Create: To produce works from the dataset
    To Adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database

As long as you:

    Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the database, or works produced from the database, in the manner specified in the license. For any use or redistribution of the database, or works produced from it, you must make clear to others the license of the database and keep intact any notices on the original database.