UDWiki:Open Discussion/Copyright, Citations, and Attributions

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I actually had a little chat with Mis regarding copy right information, and how to use it appropriately, with citations. He said as long as I attributed the work correctly I should be fine. My thoughts lay within the same realm, but thought it appropriate to establish a policy regarding copyright information.

Basically, with all the media out there, Images, the ability to upload musical media, and the like,... I figured it would be appropriate to have a policy regarding attribution of ownership. Basically something like wikipedia has for Non-Free Content, and their Copyright Policy.

To be honest, the Non-Free Content policy is more along the lines of what I had in mind when considering this, though I liked the format of wikipedia's Copyright Policy. So I'd like to discuss possibly having a policy regarding attributing ownership, rights, and copyrights to their respected owners appropriately. Also to be discussed should be what media should require citations, and attributions, as well as what should be included in the citations, and what the criteria should be for identifying material in need of this information.

Discussion

I'll be glad to participate. The first big thing is that we are using UK copyright law and not US copyright law, since the UD servers are based in the UK. Feel free to read Project:Copyrights, the UDWiki talk:Copyright Project, Copyright, International Copyright, and UK Copyright fact sheet and Fair Dealing in the UK. One of the first things we will want to do is to go around and finish documenting all of the images, citing them, and adding the Copyright Template to those images. --Akule Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™ 22:11, 28 June 2010 (BST)

Are we really going to find sources for every non-original image on this wiki? That kind of effort might make Mis cry. We're coming to get you, Barbara 22:21, 28 June 2010 (BST)

I think we should have a hybrid between US and UK copyright laws. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 22:22, 28 June 2010 (BST)

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