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⚫ Often, people wish to '''"donate" copyrighted materials''' to ]. These materials may be text (including monographs, articles, etc.) or images (including photographs). They may or may not already be posted on some other website. They may or may not actually be appropriate for inclusion in Misplaced Pages. This page exists to provide some guidance in these matters.
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⚫ Often, people wish to "donate" copyrighted materials to ]. These materials may be text (including monographs, articles, etc.) or images (including photographs). They may or may not already be posted on some other web site. They may or may not actually be appropriate for inclusion in Misplaced Pages. This page exists to provide some guidance in these matters.


(Most of what is on this page also applies to work in the ], but the focus is on copyrighted materials, because they raise more complicated issues.) (Most of what is on this page also applies to work in the ], but the focus is on copyrighted materials, because they raise more complicated issues.)


==What it means to donate material to Misplaced Pages== ==What it means to donate material to Misplaced Pages==
When you contribute material to Misplaced Pages, you are not necessarily giving us exclusive use of it. You still retain any rights you previously held, but you are giving non-exclusive license under ] (GFDL). Note that there is no way to say "you can use this in Misplaced Pages, but not in ] or other derivative works." Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for education use or even for general non-commercial use. When you contribute material to Misplaced Pages, you are not giving it exclusive use on just Misplaced Pages. You still retain any rights you previously held, but you also give non-exclusive license under ] (CC-BY-SA) and the ] (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). These licenses allow '''anyone—not just Misplaced Pages'''—to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work, provided that you are attributed as the author. '''Misplaced Pages does not accept material that claims "this can be used in Misplaced Pages, but not anywhere else or in derivative works."''' Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for educational use or even for general non-commercial use.


Note, too, that ] allow text by others or which you have co-authored with others to be imported under CC-BY-SA or CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone, without need to verify compatibility with GFDL, but text for which you hold the copyright yourself must be licensed under both CC-BY-SA and GFDL.
⚫ Please be aware that the text you donate is subject to continuous editing by the Misplaced Pages community. It may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations. Your contribution will always be part of the page history, so you retain credit for your work -- our license requires us to provide that credit, and to ensure that you are not held liable in any sense for the changes others make to your work. Do remember that one of the benefits of this freedom to edit is that you are freely able to incorporate the improvements that others make into your own website or source work, so long as it remains under the GFDL.


⚫ Please be aware that the content you donate is subject to continuous editing by the Misplaced Pages community. It may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations. Your contribution will always be part of the page history, so you retain credit for your work — our licenses are conditioned on our providing that credit, and ensuring that you are not held liable in any sense for the changes others make to your work.
⚫ If it is important for some reason that your work remain intact, please read the guidelines for our sister projects at ] and ].

Please note that one of the benefits of this freedom to edit is that you are freely able to incorporate the improvements that others make into your own website or source work, so long as it remains under the CC-BY-SA or GFDL.

⚫ If it is important that your work remain unchanged, please read the guidelines for our sister project, ], which may be better suited to host such work.


==Why we cannot take certain donations== ==Why we cannot take certain donations==
Let's get the negatives out of the way first.


===You cannot donate what someone else owns=== ===You cannot donate what someone else owns===
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For example: For example:
*Most web pages do ''not'' allow their material to be freely copied. Unless the material either is ], carries a ] notice compatible with ], or you have explicit permission to use it, please don't copy and paste from other web sites into Misplaced Pages. *Most web pages do ''not'' allow their material to be freely copied. Unless the material is either ], carries a ] notice compatible with the ], or you have explicit permission to use it, please don't copy and paste from other websites into Misplaced Pages. (] provides information on obtaining and verifying explicit permission.)
*If you are the original author but the rights have been assigned to your publisher, you have given up the ability to license the work to us. *If you are the original author but the rights have been assigned to your publisher, you have given up the ability to license the work to us.
*If you are the subject of a photograph, you probably do not own the copyright to it as that remains with the person who has taken the picture.


===Misplaced Pages is not a universal compendium=== ===Misplaced Pages is not a universal compendium===
Misplaced Pages is not a universal compendium. There are things we include and things we don't. Probably the best explanation of this is "]". In particular, we try not to include content that is below an ] level of notability. We probably don't need an article about your college club (unless it happens to be something like the ]). On the other hand, we are open to encyclopedic articles, with ] and written from a ] (NPOV), about even rather obscure towns and villages. See ] for some related thoughts. Misplaced Pages is not a universal compendium. There are things we include and things we don't. Probably the best explanation of this is at the page "]". In particular, we try not to include content that is below an ] level of notability. We probably don't need an article about your college club (unless it happens to be something like the ]). On the other hand, we are open to encyclopedic articles, with ] and written from a ] (NPOV). The content of most websites, as written, usually does not meet these criteria, so it may be best to simply paraphrase, rather than copy verbatim. This also avoids the need to re-license the content.


===Misplaced Pages does not publish original research=== ===Misplaced Pages does not publish original research===
Misplaced Pages is not a ], which publishes new or untested research; our position is described at "]". If your work is theoretical, cutting-edge, unpublished, or otherwise unverifiable through other sources, you will need to seek other avenues to publish it first. Misplaced Pages is not a ], and does not publish new and untested research and claims. Our position on such material is described more thoroughly at "]". In brief, Misplaced Pages at a minimum will not consider covering a matter <u>at least</u> until it has a proven history of gaining significant attention by significant third party sources, or (for matters testable by science) by the global scientific community. Therefore if your work is unscrutinized, unpublished, theoretical, cutting-edge, or otherwise not covered in depth through other ], you will need to seek other avenues to publish it first. Alternatively, you might consider publishing it at ], if the topic is suitable for that project.



Contributions of media material (images, videos and the like) are by their nature less likely to be "original research" in this sense; however they would still be covered by the same policy in the same way.


==Donating your photographs== ==Donating your photographs==
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If you have taken photographs that you think would be useful to Misplaced Pages, you can scan them and ] them. We prefer ] and ] to other formats. Please, if you are uploading images, become familiar with the ]. If they are your own photos, you will probably use one of the following: If you have taken photographs that you think would be useful to Misplaced Pages, you can ] them to ] (to activate your account in Commons, login using the same credentials you use in Misplaced Pages on Commons), where they can be used by any Wikimedia project, including Misplaced Pages. Please, if you are uploading images, become familiar with the ]. If you are the photographer, you will probably want to use one of the following:
*] to retain copyright, but license the image under ].
*{{tl2|sister=commons|CC-BY-4.0}} or {{tl2|sister=commons|CC-BY-SA-4.0}} to retain copyright, but license your image under a ] ] (note, not all CC licenses are accepted here, non-commercial and non-derivative licenses are not accepted; earlier versions of CC-BY-SA are accepted)
*] or ] to release your image into the ].
*{{tl2|sister=commons|Attribution}} or {{tl2|sister=commons|CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat}} to retain copyright, but allow the image to be used freely subject to certain restrictions, such as acknowledgment. Note that any restrictions cannot include terms from unacceptable licenses, such as "no derivative works" or "no commercial use."
*] or ] to license your image under the ] (note, not all CC licenses are accepted here). Contributions may be dual-licensed under the GFDL and the CC.
*{{tl2|sister=commons|CC0}} or {{tl2|sister=commons|PD-self}} to release your image into the ].
*] or ] to retain copyright, but allow the image to be used freely subject to certain restrictions, such as acknowledgment.

Contributions can also be '''dual-licensed''', being subject to two different licenses, and allowing users to choose which one they want to use your content under.


We encourage you to place a descriptive caption and source information (such as when and how it was taken) onto the ] in addition to the image copyright tag. We encourage you to place a descriptive caption and source information (such as when and how it was taken) onto the ] in addition to the image copyright tag.


==Granting us permission to copy material already online== ==Granting us permission to copy material already online==
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One simple way to grant permission to copy material already on line is to put that permission explicitly on the site where that material is posted. This is commonly known as a "]" notice. This notice must state that your site (or portions of your site) are licensed under the ] or are in the ]. One simple way to grant permission to copy material already online is to put that permission explicitly on the site where that material is posted. This is commonly known as a "]" notice. This notice must state that your site (or portions of your site) are licensed under the ] (CC-BY-SA) and the ] (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) or that it is in the ]. For text, a good statement of release might read:


:The text of this website is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the and the (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
If you want to grant Misplaced Pages permission to use material from your site, but don't want to place a statement to that effect on your site, you can leave us a notice to that effect on the article's ] (or on your ] if your site covers a number of topics). This does require that your site have a posted email contact, or some other similar means for us to verify that we really do have the relevant permission. Someone from Misplaced Pages will then ], and we will be able to add your site to a list of those from which our editors may freely draw.


If you do not wish to retain any rights to the work, you may instead release it under the Creative Commons Zero Waiver, which effectively releases your work into the public domain:
In either of the above scenarios, the relevant source should be added to one of the following:

:The text of this website is released under the (CC0).

If you verify text by placing a note at the website, you may wish to use {{tl|Text release}} to make sure that your release is documented at the talk page of the article. Instructions for using that template can be found at ]. Please do not use this template if the release is ''not'' published at your website, as the text will need to be removed.

If you would like to allow Misplaced Pages or another Wikimedia site to use your content, be it text or images, but don't want to put a license statement on the website, you '''''still must release it under the free licenses noted above''''' and can do so in the following ways:

:<u>For text</u>, you can send an email, ideally using the language from the template at ]:
::(1) From an address associated with the original publication to ;
::(2) After sending the email, place {{tl|Permission pending}} on the article's ].
::Someone will reply to your email, indicating whether the content and your license is acceptable and update the page to indicate that the confirmation of the license has been received.

:<u>For images</u>, you should send an email using the language from the template at ]:
::(1) From an address associated with the original publication to ;
::(2) Then ] the file to ] and place {{tl2|sister=commons|Permission pending}} on the image page.
::Someone will reply to your email, indicating whether the content and your license is acceptable and update the page to indicate that the confirmation of the license has been received.

If you would like to license your site's content under a free license, but don't have any particular articles in mind to put the content in, you can follow the above directions, and list your site on one of the following pages, based on the type of content and license:
*] *]
*] *]
*] *]
*] *]
*] *{{Section link|Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Maps/Source materials#Public domain and free map resources}}
*]


If you have any further questions, see ].
==Copying your own material from another source into Misplaced Pages==
If you wish to copy your own material from another source into Misplaced Pages:
*Give some thought in advance to whether the material is appropriate to Misplaced Pages. If it is, great, but many efforts to copy from other sites run into problems with our "]" policy.
*Be explicit about where the material comes from. See ] for the details of how best to do this; every article has, or should have, a "references" section, and this source should now be listed as a reference. This helps us enormously in preventing two possible confusions:
*# We won't think this is a stealthy plagiarism.
*# We can work out that your site/book/article/whatever is not plagarizing from us!
*''If the source from which you are taking explicitly posts permission to reuse their material'' say so in your ].
*''If the source from which you are taking does not explicitly post permission to reuse their material'', then your ] should include the words "see talk", and you should explain the situation more fully on the talk/discussion page.


==Related pages== ==Related pages==
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* ] *{{Section link|Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems#Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Misplaced Pages (or people editing on their behalf)}}



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Latest revision as of 16:01, 19 December 2024

Copyright policy This page is about granting permission to Misplaced Pages to use your own previously published work. For information on verifying permission to use work previously published by others, see Misplaced Pages:Requesting copyright permission.

This page in a nutshell:
  • Donate only if you are the copyright holder and the content is compatible with policies and guidelines
  • Be aware that the content can be further changed by Misplaced Pages editors and used outside Misplaced Pages
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Misplaced Pages copyright
Policy
Guidelines
Advice
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Resources

Often, people wish to "donate" copyrighted materials to Misplaced Pages. These materials may be text (including monographs, articles, etc.) or images (including photographs). They may or may not already be posted on some other website. They may or may not actually be appropriate for inclusion in Misplaced Pages. This page exists to provide some guidance in these matters.

(Most of what is on this page also applies to work in the public domain, but the focus is on copyrighted materials, because they raise more complicated issues.)

What it means to donate material to Misplaced Pages

When you contribute material to Misplaced Pages, you are not giving it exclusive use on just Misplaced Pages. You still retain any rights you previously held, but you also give non-exclusive license under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). These licenses allow anyone—not just Misplaced Pages—to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work, provided that you are attributed as the author. Misplaced Pages does not accept material that claims "this can be used in Misplaced Pages, but not anywhere else or in derivative works." Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for educational use or even for general non-commercial use.

Note, too, that the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use allow text by others or which you have co-authored with others to be imported under CC-BY-SA or CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone, without need to verify compatibility with GFDL, but text for which you hold the copyright yourself must be licensed under both CC-BY-SA and GFDL.

Please be aware that the content you donate is subject to continuous editing by the Misplaced Pages community. It may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations. Your contribution will always be part of the page history, so you retain credit for your work — our licenses are conditioned on our providing that credit, and ensuring that you are not held liable in any sense for the changes others make to your work.

Please note that one of the benefits of this freedom to edit is that you are freely able to incorporate the improvements that others make into your own website or source work, so long as it remains under the CC-BY-SA or GFDL.

If it is important that your work remain unchanged, please read the guidelines for our sister project, Wikisource, which may be better suited to host such work.

Why we cannot take certain donations

You cannot donate what someone else owns

If you are not the copyright holder of the material you cannot donate rights to Misplaced Pages! The last thing we want are copyright problems: we try to be ruthless in rooting out material where there is even the slightest question about our right to use it.

For example:

  • Most web pages do not allow their material to be freely copied. Unless the material is either public domain, carries a copyleft notice compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License, or you have explicit permission to use it, please don't copy and paste from other websites into Misplaced Pages. (Misplaced Pages:Requesting copyright permission provides information on obtaining and verifying explicit permission.)
  • If you are the original author but the rights have been assigned to your publisher, you have given up the ability to license the work to us.
  • If you are the subject of a photograph, you probably do not own the copyright to it as that remains with the person who has taken the picture.

Misplaced Pages is not a universal compendium

Misplaced Pages is not a universal compendium. There are things we include and things we don't. Probably the best explanation of this is at the page "Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not". In particular, we try not to include content that is below an encyclopedic level of notability. We probably don't need an article about your college club (unless it happens to be something like the Oxford Union). On the other hand, we are open to encyclopedic articles, with cited sources and written from a neutral point of view (NPOV). The content of most websites, as written, usually does not meet these criteria, so it may be best to simply paraphrase, rather than copy verbatim. This also avoids the need to re-license the content.

Misplaced Pages does not publish original research

Misplaced Pages is not a primary source, and does not publish new and untested research and claims. Our position on such material is described more thoroughly at "Misplaced Pages:No original research". In brief, Misplaced Pages at a minimum will not consider covering a matter at least until it has a proven history of gaining significant attention by significant third party sources, or (for matters testable by science) by the global scientific community. Therefore if your work is unscrutinized, unpublished, theoretical, cutting-edge, or otherwise not covered in depth through other reliable sources, you will need to seek other avenues to publish it first. Alternatively, you might consider publishing it at Wikiversity, if the topic is suitable for that project.

Contributions of media material (images, videos and the like) are by their nature less likely to be "original research" in this sense; however they would still be covered by the same policy in the same way.

Donating your photographs

If you have taken photographs that you think would be useful to Misplaced Pages, you can upload them to Wikimedia Commons (to activate your account in Commons, login using the same credentials you use in Misplaced Pages on Commons), where they can be used by any Wikimedia project, including Misplaced Pages. Please, if you are uploading images, become familiar with the image copyright tags. If you are the photographer, you will probably want to use one of the following:

  • {{CC-BY-4.0}} or {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}} to retain copyright, but license your image under a Creative Commons license (note, not all CC licenses are accepted here, non-commercial and non-derivative licenses are not accepted; earlier versions of CC-BY-SA are accepted)
  • {{Attribution}} or {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat}} to retain copyright, but allow the image to be used freely subject to certain restrictions, such as acknowledgment. Note that any restrictions cannot include terms from unacceptable licenses, such as "no derivative works" or "no commercial use."
  • {{CC0}} or {{PD-self}} to release your image into the public domain.

Contributions can also be dual-licensed, being subject to two different licenses, and allowing users to choose which one they want to use your content under.

We encourage you to place a descriptive caption and source information (such as when and how it was taken) onto the Image description page in addition to the image copyright tag.

Granting us permission to copy material already online

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One simple way to grant permission to copy material already online is to put that permission explicitly on the site where that material is posted. This is commonly known as a "copyleft" notice. This notice must state that your site (or portions of your site) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) or that it is in the public domain. For text, a good statement of release might read:

The text of this website is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

If you do not wish to retain any rights to the work, you may instead release it under the Creative Commons Zero Waiver, which effectively releases your work into the public domain:

The text of this website is released under the Creative Commons Zero Waiver 1.0 (CC0).

If you verify text by placing a note at the website, you may wish to use {{Text release}} to make sure that your release is documented at the talk page of the article. Instructions for using that template can be found at Template:Text release. Please do not use this template if the release is not published at your website, as the text will need to be removed.

If you would like to allow Misplaced Pages or another Wikimedia site to use your content, be it text or images, but don't want to put a license statement on the website, you still must release it under the free licenses noted above and can do so in the following ways:

For text, you can send an email, ideally using the language from the template at Misplaced Pages:Declaration of consent for all enquiries:
(1) From an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org;
(2) After sending the email, place {{Permission pending}} on the article's talk page.
Someone will reply to your email, indicating whether the content and your license is acceptable and update the page to indicate that the confirmation of the license has been received.
For images, you should send an email using the language from the template at Misplaced Pages:Declaration of consent for all enquiries:
(1) From an address associated with the original publication to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org;
(2) Then upload the file to Wikimedia Commons and place {{Permission pending}} on the image page.
Someone will reply to your email, indicating whether the content and your license is acceptable and update the page to indicate that the confirmation of the license has been received.

If you would like to license your site's content under a free license, but don't have any particular articles in mind to put the content in, you can follow the above directions, and list your site on one of the following pages, based on the type of content and license:

If you have any further questions, see Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions.

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