Community Central talk:Copyrights

Chinese translation is Wikia 著作權, not "zh:Wikia 版權" - Danielwang 17:22, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

There is Russian translation of this Page: Авторские права. Please, insert link.--Egor 12:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Done; thanks. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:13, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

The link to Desencyclopedie:Project:Copyrights should be Desencyclopedie:Project:Copyright; there are also a number of templates for Désencyclopédie copyright tags on Desencyclopedie:Project:Modèle. (Note that Désencyclopédie is just one of many Wikia which attempt to translate the Uncyclopedia into other languages.) --carlb 17:25, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Images not allowing derived works
On the Spanking Art Wikia, we recently had an image uploaded, whose license was unclear. It eventually became apparent that the artist would permit anyone to repost the image, provided that his site logo stayed intact, and that the image was not modified. Creative commons has a license for exactly that (CC-NO derivs) but it is not one of the Wikia approved licenses, so we reluctantly deleted the image. See and.

However I think we might want to consider allowing such licenses. There are surely more free than fair use images, and it is not unreasonable for an artist to want his work to appear unaltered, even when s/he permits it to be freely reused. -Mercy (talk) 21:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Licenses that prohibit commercial or derivative use are not free. The definition of free content being created at freecontentdefinition.org follows the policy that Wikia and Wikipedia use that says text and images must allow certain core freedoms, and one of those is the ability to modify the work. This is especially important on a wiki, where the aim is to work collaboratively. You can't do that if you're prevented from changing something that someone else uploaded. If artists don't want their work to be changed, there are many other websites where they could put that, and then your Wikia could link to it instead of including it directly on the page. Angela (talk) 03:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)