Grand Theft Wiki:Licensing: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:50, 14 October 2010

Grand Theft Wiki has a series of policies regarding the use and reproduction of Copyright material.

Using Grand Theft Wiki Content

Grand Theft Wiki's content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

In short, you are free to to copy, modify, distribute and transmit the work, but you MUST provide attribution (linking back to this site) and you must use the same or a similar licence for your copy, whether modified or not.

By editing Grand Theft Wiki, you agree to license any text you add under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported).

Putting Content onto Grand Theft Wiki

No copyrighted content should be placed on Grand Theft Wiki unless one of these conditions apply:

You own the copyright
You have express written permission from the Copyright holder
It is an official or unofficial image of a GTA game (ie screenshot, box art)
It is fair & necessary to use the content (eg short quotes, company/product logos)

Wherever possible, you should state where you found the content:

For images, you must use a copyright template on the file's page.
For article content, you should place a note on the talk page of the article.

We believe it is fair to use screenshots of games to represent games and the characters, vehicles and locations in those games. We also believe that it is fair to use existing screenshots for that purpose, since we (by default) allow images to be reproduced elsewhere. Credit will be given where due. However, if the copyright holder wishes to dispute our use of an image, it should be discussed on the talk page for the image or this page.

See: Copyright templates for various copyright templates for use on images

Disclaimer

Grand Theft Wiki will not be held liable for any misuse of content by our registered members.

Correction of Breaches of Copyright

If you believe a copyright has been breached, please let us know, and provide proof of the source and licence of the content. We will aim to correct the problem as soon as possible if neccessary.

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 ==Putting Content onto Grand Theft Wiki==
-No copyrighted content should be placed on Grand Theft Wiki unless either you own the copyright or have express written permission to use it. However, some content, such as logos, screenshots, names or short text extracts (eg quotes) may be placed if used fairly. Any quotes, text extracts or images should reference their source, unless it is obvious (eg a company logo) or generic (no identifiable author).
+No copyrighted content should be placed on Grand Theft Wiki unless one of these conditions apply:
+*You own the copyright
+*You have express written permission from the Copyright holder
+*It is an official or unofficial image of a GTA game (ie screenshot, box art)
+*It is fair & necessary to use the content (eg short quotes, company/product logos)
+Wherever possible, you should state where you found the content:
+*For images, you must use a [[Grand Theft Wiki:Copyright templates|copyright template]] on the file's page.
+*For article content, you should place a note on the talk page of the article.
 We believe it is fair to use screenshots of games to represent games and the characters, vehicles and locations in those games. We also believe that it is fair to use existing screenshots for that purpose, since we (by default) allow images to be reproduced elsewhere. Credit will be given where due. However, if the copyright holder wishes to dispute our use of an image, it should be discussed on the talk page for the image or [http://www.gta.wikia.com/index.php?title=Grand_Theft_Wiki_talk:Copyright&action=edit&section=new this page].
-===Copyright Templates===
+:''See: [[Grand Theft Wiki:Copyright templates|Copyright templates]] for various copyright templates for use on images''
-:''See: [[Grand Theft Wiki:Copyright templates|Copyright templates]] for various copyright templates for use on images, such as the following:''
-[[Template:Screenshot]]:
-{{screenshot}}
 ==Disclaimer==