AnthroWiki:Copyrights

AnthroWiki does not own copyright on AnthroWiki article texts or illustrations. It is therefore pointless to email our contact addresses asking for permission to reproduce articles or images, even if rules at your company, school, or organization mandate that you ask web site operators before copying their content.

Permission to reproduce and modify text on AnthroWiki has already been granted to anyone anywhere by the authors of individual articles as long as such reproduction and modification complies with licensing terms. Images may or may not permit reuse and modification; the conditions for reproduction of each image should be individually checked. The only exceptions are those cases in which editors have violated AnthroWiki policy by uploading copyrighted material without authorization, or with copyright licensing terms which are incompatible with those AnthroWiki authors have applied to the rest of AnthroWiki content. While such material is present on AnthroWiki (before it is detected and removed), it will be a copyright violation to copy it. For permission to use it, one must contact the owner of the copyright of the text or illustration in question; often, but not always, this will be the original author.

If you wish to reuse content from AnthroWiki, first read the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.

The text of Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Wikipedia:Berne Convention) by AnthroWiki editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses. Most of AnthroWiki's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Some text has been imported only under CC BY-SA and CC BY-SA-compatible license and cannot be reused under GFDL; such text will be identified on the page footer, in the page history, or on the discussion page of the article that utilizes the text. Every image has a description page that indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

The licenses AnthroWiki uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely. AnthroWiki content can be copied, modified, and redistributed if and only if the copied version is made available on the same terms to others and acknowledgment of the authors of the AnthroWiki article used is included (a link back to the article is generally thought to satisfy the attribution requirement). Copied AnthroWiki content will therefore remain free under an appropriate license and can continue to be used by anyone subject to certain restrictions, most of which aim to ensure that freedom. This principle is known as copyleft in contrast to typical copyright licenses.

To this end,

• Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify AnthroWiki's text under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and, unless otherwise noted, the GNU Free Documentation License. unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts.
• A copy of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License is included in the section entitled "Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License"
• A copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
• Content on Wikipedia is covered by disclaimers.

The English text of the CC BY-SA and GFDL licenses is the only legally binding restriction between authors and users of Wikipedia content. What follows is our interpretation of CC BY-SA and GFDL, as it pertains to the rights and obligations of users and contributors.