Forum:Copyrights question

Please I'm not english speaker so I need a quick and simple answer to a copyrights doubt. I've read in the wikipedia website the following sentence about copyrights rules:

"The rule of all the Wikipedias, including this one, is that nothing in the Wikipedia can be copyrighted by someone else. The exception is if Wikipedia editors (including named and unnamed editors) have permission to use it. This means that we are only allowed to copy things from books or from other web pages into the Wikipedia if the writer has said that anyone can copy these things and make changes to them"

Does it apply to wikia too?

I've been contacted by some admins from an external forum. they want me to copy stuff from their site and they're asking me to link to it, i guess they only want some sort of visibility on the wikia i've started. This is not the problem. The problem is they are not necessarily the authors of those pages, they are just the admins of that forum, they are granting me permission to use pages they might have not written. Plus they don't permit anyone but me to use this stuff. I don't know what to do, plus I'm not english and it does not help understanding GNU documentation and so on, please help me, i really need some tips. tyvm. ps. please forgive my poor english.

edit: i've just forgotten to say they are not the owners of that forum. It's one of those free forums from a hosting provider, so they are admins but they own nothing pubblished there.


 * First of, if you started a wiki on Wikia, you surely have a Wikia account.
 * Thoses account are valid on all Wikia, even wikis that have their own domain.
 * So, if you have an account on Wikia, when you ask help here, it migh be usefull that you do this while loged in.
 * Next, Wikia isn't under GFDL anymore. All GDFL wikis had the opportunity to switch to CC-BY-SA and some prefered a dual licensing. But this is another story.
 * Third, english is not my first language either (mine is french).
 * Next, we can't help much with the copy/licensing problem if you dont give a link to at least their forum. But, it's sure i wont be much help if their forum is not in a language i know. Other users might be able to help in that case.
 * All i can say is that i find suspicious that they would be giving permission to use work of others. But, when submitting something to their site, maybe there is something that say by doing it they give up on their rights. Who know ? Need to check their site. — TulipVorlax 00:34, December 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * As far as I know, when Wikipedia sends a permission about coyrigted material to be included on Wikipedia, it request to be licensed under the same license of Wikipedia, not permission to include it on Wikipedia but applying the same restrictions. That means that if they don't agree to release their work under the same license of the wiki, their work can't be included. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 19:15, December 29, 2009 (UTC)