Bhamwiki:Copyrights

Copyrights are the privileges granted to creators of works to protect those works from unauthorized reproduction and use. Copyrights are protected by Copyright Law under national jurisdiction and international agreement. Contributors to BhamWiki relinquish their copyright privileges and must refrain from impinging on the copyrights of others. Unless otherwise noted, all content on BhamWiki will be assumed to have been released under the project's main license, the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License version 2.5. This license allows content from BhamWiki to be copied and used for any purpose provided that BhamWiki is given credit as the source (by providing a link back to the article) and any copies or derivative works are given the same license with no further restriction.

Relinquishing of copyrights

All new content created for the BhamWiki should be licensed by the author under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License version 2.5. Text or content from sources that use different but compatible licenses, such as Wikipedia's Gnu Free Documentation License will need to be dual licensed and properly cited. Text or content from sources under copyright (or with incompatible licenses, such as Creative Commons NonCommercial licenses) must not be used on BhamWiki. Content from the public domain, of course, remains in the public domain.

Using Wikipedia content on Bhamwiki

If content is copied from Wikipedia (or any source using the GFDL), it should be attributed to its source and published here under a dual license. This can be done by using Wikipedia's citation tool to create a citation with a link back to Wikipedia, and then adding a notification that the article is published under a dual license. (Template:GFDL has been created specifically for this purpose.)

Note: If an article is rewritten to the extent that it is no longer a derivative of Wikipedia content, the dual license notice can be removed.

Using public domain content on Bhamwiki

The use of public domain content carries with it no legal obligation. As a courtesy to our users, however, it is suggested that extensive quotations, and especially images and other media copied from a public domain source be clearly labeled as such to facilitate downstream re-use. A citation of the original source is, of course, still required by our citation policy.

Fair Use

In United States copyright law, the courts have allowed a certain measure of "Fair Use" of copyrighted works. For more on this concept see Wikipedia:Fair use. In general, BhamWiki claims fair use for the following (when no alternative is available):

• Trademarked logos on articles about companies or products identified by that logo. (Use Template:Fair use-Logo)
• Screen shots of copyrighted motion pictures, tv shows or video games to illustrate articles about those works.
• Copyrighted book, magazine or album covers to illustrate articles about those publications or their creators.

Fair use images should be uploaded at screen display resolution to discourage unauthorized uses. They should also be labeled as such, with an explanation of how they are to be used.

Copyright violations

Known copyright violations on BhamWiki will be deleted at once and without further notice. All users are encouraged to assist with this policing. If you are aware of a copyright violation you can either remove it yourself using the "edit" tab or request removal at Bhamwiki:Copyright violations or by sending an email to admin at bhamwiki.com (replace the "at" with @). Repeat violators of BhamWiki's copyright policy will be blocked from editing.