Project:Use of copyrighted materials

All content provided to this project is released under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 4.0) license after every edit. Therefore, any editor wishing to contribute must provide content that is:

• Their own content which they are releasing under the same license; or
• Is content which has a compatible license to CC BY-SA 4.0.

It is the obligation of editors providing content to verify that such content is under a compatible license. If there is any doubt, administrators may remove such content until verification is made. Note that all content created is by default fully copyrighted with all rights reserved unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Text

When dealing with taking text from other sources, a link to the original source it came from must be provided on the relevant articles' talk page unless it is CC0, since all other compatible licenses require attribution. This is done adding Template:Copyright attribution talk (if not already present) to the top of the talk page. This will create a new section with an ombox describing that the section exists to attribute copyrighted material.

If the section already exists, to attribute the material, Template:Copyright attribution table should be substituted underneath the last table in the section. If the section is being created for the first time, the table should substituted right under Template:Copyright attribution talk.

The source parameter should be a full URL link to where the material came from and the content parameter be a link to the diff or page revision that added the content from the source. If the source is Wikipedia, the URL should be the latest diff of the page in question - not just a link to the article.

Images

When dealing with images, for the sake of minimizing the legal liability of the project, the image must fall under one of the following Creative Commons licenses:

• CC0
• CC BY-1.0
• CC By-2.0
• CC BY-2.5
• CC BY-3.0
• CC BY-4.0
• CC BY-SA-1.0
• CC BY-SA-2.0
• CC BY-SA-2.5
• CC BY-SA-3.0
• CC BY-SA-4.0

Or it meet one of the following criteria:

• The image is comprised of simple geometric shapes and words and thus under United States copyright law is not original enough for copyright.
• The image is a logo being used in accordance with fair use for the sole purpose of identifying an organization or community.
• The image has been declared in some fashion to be released under public domain outside of a Creative Commons License.

Even if another license or rationale may technically allow an image to be hosted by the Online Community Wiki, the image is ineligible for inclusion by policy.

To mark the image's copyright, select the appropriate option when using Special:Upload.

Instant Commons

Online Community Wiki has opted into using the InstantCommons feature. As such, any image obtained via such feature may be used freely (so long as there are no additional restrictions that may inhibit use), as all content on that site is de-facto under a compatible license.