Grand Theft Wiki:Copyright Templates: Difference between revisions

All articles on Grand Theft Wiki fall under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU FDL] ([[GNU Free Documentation License|see copy]]). This means that anybody may use content from Grand Theft Wiki for research purposes, either personal, commercial or for another site. However, content should not be copied directly to another site without gaining permission from a [[Staff|Manager]] first, on the [[Grand Theft Wiki talk:Copyright|Copyright discussion page]]. No copyright template is required for normal text.

The exceptions to this are mainly the quotes used in certain articles, and the names of companies and products - these are used on Grand Theft Wiki in the belief that they qualify as fair use, and do not detract anything from the Copyright owners or impede their right to sell the Copyright material. For this reason, a copyright template is not required so long as the source is either mentioned or linked to on the same page, usually in the [[Help:References|References]] section of an article.

By default, images uploaded to Grand Theft Wiki fall under the GNU FDL as applies for articles. However, different rules apply to images taken from other sources, or if the creator wishes to use a separate licence for their work.

[[Category:Screenshots|Screenshots]] of [[Grand Theft Auto]] games are believed to be fair use, as they do not detract from the experience of playing the game, so does not replace the purchase of the game. All screenshots on Grand Theft Wiki should use [[Template:Screenshot]] (except where a more specific template is available):

<pre>{{screenshot}}</pre>

{{screenshot}}

For screenshots directly from the game, the appropriate templates for the game should be used instead.

|[[Template:GTA1 screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gta1 screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gta1 screenshot}}

|[[Template:GTA2 screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gta2 screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gta2 screenshot}}

|[[Template:GTAIII screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gtaiii screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gtaiii screenshot}}

|[[Template:GTAVC screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gtavc screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gtavc screenshot}}

|[[Template:GTASA screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gtasa screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gtasa screenshot}}

|[[Template:GTAA screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gtaa screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gtaa screenshot}}

|[[Template:GTALCS screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gtalcs screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gtalcs screenshot}}

|[[Template:GTAVCS screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gtavcs screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gtavcs screenshot}}

|[[Template:gtaiv screenshot]]

|<pre>{{gtaiv screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{gtaiv screenshot}}

|[[Template:TLAD screenshot]]

|<pre>{{tlad screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{tlad screenshot}}

|[[Template:TBOGT screenshot]]

|<pre>{{TBOGT screenshot}}</pre>

|-

|colspan="3" align="center"|{{TBOGT screenshot}}

If the creator of the work decides to remove all copyright restrictions on their work, allowing it to be reused or modified for any purpose, [[Template:No copyright]] should be used:

<pre>{{no copyright|author name}}

{{no copyright|Joe Bloggs}}

 

<pre>{{no copyright|company name|company's relevance}}

{{no copyright|BBC|its owner}}</pre>

{{no copyright|BBC|its owner}}

 

 

 

If the creator wishes to licence the image under the Creative Commons licence "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales", it gives people the right to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, but they must give the original author credit, not use it for commercial purposes and not alter, transform, or build upon it. The template for this is [[Template:Copyright]], used as <code><nowiki>{{copyright|author}}<nowiki></code>, with <nowiki>[[internal]] and [</nowiki><code>http://</code> external links]</nowiki> allowed in the author field.

{{copyright|[[User:Xenon|Gerard Boyers]]}}</pre>

{{copyright|[[User:Xenon|Gerard Boyers]]}}