Project:Use of copyrighted materials
 | This page documents an Online Communipedia policy. It describes facets of project governance or standards that all editors need to follow. |
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.
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. It is the obligation of editors providing content to verify that such content is under a compatible license. If there is any doubt, administrators of the site 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.
When dealing with images, for the sake of minimizing the legal liability of the project, the image must fall under one of the following licenses. Even if another license may technically be compatible, unless explicit permission from the copyright holder has been obtained, the image is ineligible for inclusion.
- 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
- Non-free logo in accordance with Fair Use
For the last bullet, this is mostly used on article info boxes for the identification of the relevant community or organization. It may not be used in any other way on the project.
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.