Forum:Copying content from one wiki to another

I know this might be a dumb question, but anyways:

I've searched over the site a bit for how copying content works and the general response was that, anything that is not copyrighted can be copied but must be given attribution to in a link/etc.

But what if the wiki who copied it did not give attribution to the other while doing so? Could you go in there (in images for example, or in a small note on the bottom of a page), and put it yourself, even though you were not the one who copied? Yechnagoth 07:26, December 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * If the wiki copied content without attribution, that is copyright infringement. As for your other question, I don't see anything wrong with attributing the original wiki if you didn't add the page; you will be helping to avoid a copyright violation. --


 * Thanks! I was wondering if I should do it or not or if it was really within the wikia's policy. I will do it then :)
 * And another thing (though this one is just out of curiosity), do the same applies for use outside wikis? From what I searched earlier it seems so, but I'm not really sure. Yechnagoth 13:45, December 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikia is licensed under CC-BY-SA (as is Wikipedia). Wikis under that license require that any content copied from them must be attributed, so yes, if someone from another wiki copies your content, you are well within your rights to add attribution if the copier did not, or sue if they refuse to allow your link to appear on their page. However, if you have an independent wiki that isn't licensed under CC-BY-SA, you have to adhere to the standards laid out by that license. Most wikis will have a small icon in the bottom left hand corner of the page that will tell you what the license is, and give you a link to the full text of the license.


 * How exactly does it work with independent wikis then? They can just copy stuff from here with no penalty by simply adopting a special lisense? -- 14:19, December 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * What I meant is if this also applies to sites that aren't wikis, like independent sites or anything else. Yechnagoth 14:36, December 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Any website is allowed to copy CC-BY-SA text as long as the source and/or authors are attributed. --


 * Thought so. Just wanted to confirm, thanks! (though if they don't, there's usually not much you could do). Yechnagoth 00:20, December 21, 2011 (UTC)