WikiSTC:Copyrights

Subversive Technologies & Countermeasures

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Contents 1 Users' rights and obligations 1.1 Derivative Works 1.2 Fair use materials and special requirements 2 Contributors' rights and obligations 2.1 Contributing other peoples works 2.2 Contributing your own works 2.3 Linking to copyrighted works 2.4 Image guidelines 3 Copyright infringement 3.1 Copyright infringement of works you own

Users' rights and obligations

Translations are derivative works, and need separate determination in addition to the original work.

Derivative Works

If you create a derivative version by changing or adding content, you may be able to fulfill some of your obligations to the GFDL license with the following:

GNU Free Document License:

• Your materials in turn have to be licensed under GFDL.
• You must acknowledge the authorship of the article (section 4B).
• You must provide access to the "transparent copy" of the material (section 4J). (The "transparent copy" of a WikiSTC article is its wiki text.)

You may be able to partially fulfill the latter two obligations by providing a conspicuous direct link back to the WikiSTC article hosted on this website. You also need to provide access to a transparent copy of the new text. However, please note that WikiSTC makes no guarantee to retain authorship information and a transparent copy of articles. Therefore, you are encouraged to provide this authorship information and a transparent copy with your derived works.

Example notice

(page name) of the articles and the (WikiSTC article name) must of course be substituted accordingly. Alternatively you can distribute your copy of <name> along with a copy of the GFDL (as explained in the text) and list at least five (or all if fewer than five) principal authors on the title page (or top of the document).

You may be able to partially fulfill the last obligation by providing a conspicuous direct link back to the WikiSTC source code hosted on this website. You also need to provide access to a machine-readable copy of the new source code. However, please note that WikiSTC makes no guarantee to retain authorship information and a machine-readable copy of the source code. Therefore, you are encouraged to provide this authorship information and a machine-readable copy with your derived works.

Fair use materials and special requirements

"Fair use" of copyrighted materials is formally determined in a court of law — that is, when one party sues another for copyright infringement. Courts have previously relied on a four-factor test for whether or not a given "use" of copyrighted materials is "fair":

1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. The nature of the copyrighted work;
3. The amount and substantially of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;
4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

All original WikiSTC text is distributed under the GFDL. Occasionally, WikiSTC articles may include images, source fragments, or text quotes used under the U.S. Copyright law "fair use" doctrine. It is preferred that these be obtained under the most free (libre) license (such as the GFDL or public domain) practical. In cases where no such images are currently available, then fair use images are acceptable (until such time as free images become available).

In such a case, the material should be identified as from an external source (on the image description page, history page, or source code comments, as appropriate). As "fair use" is specific to each situation it is best that you describe the "fair use rationale" for each specific use either in hidden text in the article or on the image description page. Remember what is fair use for WikiSTC may not be considered a fair use for your intended use of the content in another context.

For example, if we include an image under fair use, you must ensure that your use of the article also qualifies for fair use (this might not be the case, for example, if you were using a WikiSTC article for a commercial use that would otherwise be allowed by the GFDL and the fair use would not be allowed under that commercial use).

Contributors' rights and obligations

Contributing other peoples works

If you contribute content written by someone else to WikiSTC you thereby warrant that the content is fair use, free license, or public domain in the United States or that you have permission in the form of a copyright license from the copyright holder to place the work on WikiSTC. A conspicuous template or mark should be used to indicate the names, dates, and license that the source material is posted under. If your position is that you are allowed to upload something because of an exception, it is your responsibility to state what that exception is.

Contributing your own works

If you contribute your own original material to WikiSTC, you thereby license it to the public under GFDL with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts. You will retain copyrights to your materials that you can later republish and relicense them in any way you like. However, you can never retract the GFDL license for the versions you placed on WikiSTC: that material will remain under GFDL forever.

Linking to copyrighted works

Linking to copyrighted works is usually not a problem, as long as you have made a reasonable effort to determine that the page in question is not violating someone else's copyright. If it is please do not link to the page, linking to a site that illegally distributes someone else's work sheds a bad light on WikiSTC.

Image guidelines

Images and photographs, like written works, are subject to copyright. Someone owns them unless they have been explicitly placed in the public domain. Images on the internet need to be licensed directly from the copyright holder or someone able to license on their behalf. In some cases, fair use guidelines may allow an image or photograph to be used. Image description pages can be tagged with a special tag to indicate the legal status of the images

Copyright infringement

Please note that WikiSTC is an open wiki, so there is no way to guarantee that all material present on WikiSTC at any given time is indeed under public domain, fair use, or free license.

If you suspect that content on a particular page contains a copyright infringement you can have it reviewed by adding one of these templates.

Note that copyright law governs the creative expression of ideas, not the ideas or information themselves.

Copyright infringement of works you own

If you find copyright infringement of work you own you can have them permanently removed by emailing abuse@wikistc.org with the following information:

• Subject of the email should be "Copyright infringement".
• Evidence that supports your claim of ownership.
• Link to the page containing the copyright infringement.
  • Identify what sections, images, or content contain the copyrighted materials.

Large portions of this text incorporated from Wikipedia:Copyright