Copyright
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The actual legal issues regarding copyright in Wikipedia should be discussed in depth, before starting any major project like a copyright bot.
This file is for the basic questions of copyright itself, under global laws and other national laws likely to apply to wikipedia, e.g. those of the USA.
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[edit] Basics
The Wikimedia Foundation outlines several principles which every project must follow:
- Only free content, all text is licensed under GFDL (with few exceptions such as Wikinews which use CC-BY 2.5).
- All images must be either free (public domain, GFDL, CC and so on) or, if local policy allows it, uploaded under a fair use claim, see below.
- All media files must be accompanied with a license information and a source, to allow verification.
- All unfree content must have a detailed fair use rationale.
- All copyright-violating content must be either deleted or reverted upon discovery.
- Giving external links to copyright-violating content is prohibited.
[edit] Fair use
[edit] Moral rights
Moral rights are a part of CC 3.0 licenses, allowed on Commons.
[edit] Copyright violation
Due to American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term, certain works in the public domain it their source countries might be legally copyrighted in the USA and thus impede development of Wiki sites. Without claiming fair use, uploading these works to Wiki sites could be copyright violation.
[edit] Likely claims of damages
As applicable, more specific issues relevant to wikipedia should be raised in en:Wikipedia:Copyright issues and proposals to automate solutions should be raised in copyright bot.
