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By submitting images for upload to the FamilySearch Wiki, the owner takes responsibility for the violation of copyright laws. Just because an image appears on the Internet does not mean that the image is without copyright, or has been released into the public domain. If there is any question about the copyright and/or ownership of an image, do not upload the image to the FamilySearch Wiki. While those screening images scan for obvious violations of copyright, the responsibility of declaring and protecting the image copyright is the sole responsibility of the image submitter. | By submitting images for upload to the FamilySearch Wiki, the owner takes responsibility for the violation of copyright laws. Just because an image appears on the Internet does not mean that the image is without copyright, or has been released into the public domain. If there is any question about the copyright and/or ownership of an image, do not upload the image to the FamilySearch Wiki. While those screening images scan for obvious violations of copyright, the responsibility of declaring and protecting the image copyright is the sole responsibility of the image submitter. | ||
The Creative Commons (CC) license covers content that is placed in our wiki by contributors. If they hold the copyright to the material or it is their original material then they are allowing CC to govern it. If it comes from some other source then CC requires that you abide by that agreement. So if it comes from GNU or Wikimedia commons or any other source you must abide by that agreement in order to put it in our wiki. As long as proper attribution is given items from Wikimedia Commons, they can be placed in our wiki. Creative Commons lists proper attribution as follows: | The [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons (CC)] license covers content that is placed in our wiki by contributors. If they hold the copyright to the material or it is their original material then they are allowing CC to govern it. If it comes from some other source then CC requires that you abide by that agreement. So if it comes from GNU or Wikimedia commons or any other source you must abide by that agreement in order to put it in our wiki. As long as proper attribution is given items from Wikimedia Commons, they can be placed in our wiki. Creative Commons lists proper attribution as follows: | ||
:Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). | :Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). | ||
As long as proper attribution is given then we are fine with materials from GNU etc. | As long as proper attribution is given then we are fine with materials from GNU etc. | ||
== Documentation == | == Documentation == | ||