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New page: '''{{SITENAME_SHORT}}''' features crowdsourced content relating to the ''Transformers brand'' which first appeared in 1984 and is jointly owned by [[Hasbro]...

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'''{{SITENAME_SHORT}}''' features [[Wikipedia:Crowdsourcing|crowdsourced]] content relating to the ''[[Transformers brand]]'' which first appeared in 1984 and is jointly owned by [[Hasbro]] <small>(United States)</small> and [[TakaraTomy]] <small>(Japan)</small>.

The {{SITENAME_SHORT}} community began operation on [[May 28]], [[2005]] under [http://Wikicities.com Wikicities]. The original site has grown and evolved since then, and copies of its content have proliferated across the internet. The community known as {{SITENAME_SHORT}} has been its own entity since [[September 15]], [[2008]].

==Licensing Content==
The content featured on {{SITENAME_SHORT}} 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 {{SITENAME_SHORT}}. 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.
**{{note|{{SITENAME_SHORT}} is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license '''code''', but not the license '''deed'''. {{SITENAME_SHORT}} 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==
* '''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.)

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