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.

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 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;

• 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 meet one of the following criteria:

• The image is compromised of simple geometric shapes and words and thus under United States copyright law is not original enough for copyright.
• The image that is a logo being used in accordance with fair use for the sole purpose of identifying an organization or community.

Even if another license or rationale may technically apply, the image is ineligible for inclusion.

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.