Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151226234449/@comment-1757994-20160106054055

You should probably familiarize yourself with the terms of CC-BY-SA. Pinkgirl234 wrote: ... in the first place, no one should copypaste content from another site and then distribute it to a wiki without even bothering to ask for consent, ... If the original site's content is licensed CC, copying is absolutely permitted by the license. Pinkgirl234 wrote: ... give credit ... That's what CC-BY is. The person doing the copy must give credit. Pinkgirl234 wrote: ... or paraphrase. This is the definition of plagiarism and most wikis don't tolerate plagiarism.... Plagiarism is when someone copies someone else's work and claims it as their own. If the person copying does not attribute the source, then they're violating the license terms of CC-BY. Merely copying the work is permitted by CC. CC also allows someone to "transform" the work and claim credit for the transformation. As long as the person or people copying the original work comply with the license, they don't have to ask for anything. The license already gives it to them.

Also, the CC licenses are irrevocable. Once you make something available via the license, it's available forever. You can delete it from a CC-licensed wiki, but someone else can restore it or post a copy of it anywhere else, because that's what CC means.