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 the BhamWiki are required to relinquish their copyright privileges and to 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 "Licensing" section to the article with a notification that the article is published under a dual license. (Template:License GFDL & CC-by-sa2.5) 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. Links or citations to the original source are, of course, still required by our citation policy.

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.