Neverpedia:Copyrights

The text of Neverpedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Neverpedia editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses. Most of Neverpedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

The licenses Neverpedia uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely. Neverpedia content can be copied, modified, and redistributed if and only if the copied version is made available on the same terms to others and acknowledgment of the authors of the Neverpedia article used is included (a link back to the article is generally thought to satisfy the attribution requirement; see below for more details). Copied Neverpedia content will therefore remain free under appropriate license and can continue to be used by anyone subject to certain restrictions, most of which aim to ensure that freedom. This principle is known as copyleft in contrast to typical copyright licenses.

To this end,
 * Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify Neverpedia's text under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and, unless otherwise noted, the GNU Free Documentation License. unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts.
 * A copy of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License is included in the section entitled "Neverpedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License"
 * Content on Neverpedia is covered by disclaimers.

The English text of the CC-BY-SA licenses is the only legally binding restriction between authors and users of Neverpedia content. What follows is our interpretation of CC-BY-SA, as it pertains to the rights and obligations of users and contributors.

Reusers' rights and obligations
The only Neverpedia content you should contact the Wikimedia Foundation about is the trademarked Neverpedia/Wikimedia logos, which are not freely usable without permission (see Neverpedia:Contact us). If you want to use other Neverpedia materials in your own books/articles/websites or other publications, you can do so—but only in compliance with the licensing terms. Please follow the guidelines below:

Re-use of text

 * Attribution: To re-distribute text on Neverpedia in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website, or c) a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.) This applies to text developed by the Neverpedia community. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution requirements to the work, which should be indicated on an article's face or on its talk page. For example, a page may have a banner or other notation indicating that some or all of its content was originally published somewhere else. Where such notations are visible in the page itself, they should generally be preserved by re-users.
 * Copyleft/Share Alike: If you make modifications or additions to the page you re-use, you must license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 or later.
 * Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions, you must indicate in a reasonable fashion that the original work has been modified. If you are re-using the page in a wiki, for example, indicating this in the page history is sufficient.
 * Licensing notice: Each copy or modified version that you distribute must include a licensing notice stating that the work is released under CC-BY-SA and either a) a hyperlink or URL to the text of the license or b) a copy of the license. For this purpose, a suitable URL is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

For further information, please refer to the legal code of the CC-BY-SA License.

Re-use of non-text media
Where not otherwise noted, non-text media files are available under various free culture licenses. Please view the media description page for details about the license of any specific media file.

Non-free materials and special requirements
Neverpedia articles may also include quotations, images, or other media under the U.S. Copyright law "fair use" doctrine. In Neverpedia, such "fair use" material should be identified as from an external source by an appropriate method (on the image description page, or history page, as appropriate; quotations should be denoted with quotation marks or block quotation. This leads to possible restrictions on the use, outside of Neverpedia, of such "fair use" content retrieved from Neverpedia: this "fair use" content does not fall under the CC-BY-SA license as such, but under the "fair use" (or similar/different) regulations in the country where the media are retrieved.