User:Derik/Licensing
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TFWiki.net features crowdsourced content relating to the Transformers brand which first appeared in 1984 and is jointly owned by Hasbro (United States) and TakaraTomy (Japan).
The TFWiki.net community began operation on May 28, 2005 under Wikicities. The original site has grown and evolved since then, and copies of its content have proliferated across the internet. The community known as TFWiki.net has been its own entity since September 15, 2008.
Licensing Content
[edit]The content featured on TFWiki.net was created under a license that allows others to re-use it under various conditions. All the licenses offered are a form of reciprocal ("viral") licensing that requires the licensee to allow certain uses of the resulting material.
- CC-BY-SA — (The Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License Code) The primary license used by TFWiki.net. Content may be freely reused or remixed by anyone, providing that credit tot he original author(s) is provided, ans that the resulting content is offered under the same terms.
- Simply put: Anyone can make a copy or make something new, but anyone can also copy the new thing you made.
- The CC-BY-SA License code requires that someone re-using this content include notice that the work is CC-BY-SA3, but failure to provide such a notice does not prevent the livense from being in effect. This has the net effect of making the license extremely viral; by reusing content all works 'downstream' of the original, regardless of whether they are aware of it or not, also become CC-BY-SA.
- TFWiki.net is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license code, but not the license deed. TFWiki.net has specifically disavowed the non-binding "shortform" deed due to its overly expansive claims about derived work, which infringe on what might otherwise be termed Fair Use.
- GFDL — (The GNU Free Documentation License) Content as it existed prior to August 1, 2009 may be licensed under the terms of the GFDL, with terms similar to CC-BY-SA... only less convenient, and slightly less viral.
Unlicensed Use of Content
[edit]- Fair Use / Fair Dealing — Any individual possesses a right to the limited use of copyrighted material without permission or licensing. (In practice, this can be very limited indeed.)