Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-4787640-20131110103335/@comment-4674838-20131112041103

Hi GleeFanatic,

Wikia operates on the CC-BY-SA license (which you can read about *here*), meaning that anyone can freely copy lyrics or other content from your wiki and use them on their own wiki or website, provided that they adhere to the terms of the license. This means that when someone copies CC-BY-SA content, they are supposed to attribute the source, typically by providing a link on their webpage which points back to the webpage where the content was copied from.

If you feel that someone is copying your content and not following the terms of the CC-BY-SA license, you should do the following:
 * 1) Notify the other party that your wiki is CC-BY-SA and that since they are copying from it, they must attribute your wiki as the source.
 * 2) If you are unable to resolve the issue on your own, you should contact Wikia staff at Special:Contact to see if they may be able to help.

In my opinion, the most important thing is to realize (although it takes a while to get used to it) is that wikis do not work like school papers where you have to worry about plagiarism or copying as a problem. With Wikia, copying isn't meant to be seen as a bad thing, but rather a good tool to promote the spreading of freely accessible content and the communities that build it.