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| The goal of Misplaced Pages is to create information that is available to everyone. | The goal of Misplaced Pages is to create information that is available to everyone. | ||
| The realities of modern ] law demand that we pay attention to | The realities of modern ] law demand that we pay attention to | ||
| legal issues to ensure that our work can be made available, and to protect | legal issues to ensure that our work can be made available, and to protect | ||
| the project from legal liability. | the project from legal liability. | ||
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| Please do not put copyrighted material into Misplaced Pages without permission. | Please do not put copyrighted material into Misplaced Pages without permission. | ||
| Works in the public domain can be used freely; works from copyrighted sources | Works in the public domain can be used freely; works from copyrighted sources | ||
| that grant permission for use can often be used as well, but additional steps | that ] can often be used as well, but additional steps | ||
| may be required such as crediting the original author. | may be required such as crediting the original author. | ||
| If you obtain permission to use a copyrighted work, please note that fact | If you obtain permission to use a copyrighted work, please note that fact | ||
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| If you are not sure, check the existing talk page of the article in question | If you are not sure, check the existing talk page of the article in question | ||
| to see if there is discussion there about legal issues. | to see if there is discussion there about legal issues. | ||
| === Misplaced Pages copyright === | === Misplaced Pages copyright === | ||
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The goal of Misplaced Pages is to create information that is available to everyone. The realities of modern copyright law demand that we pay attention to
legal issues to ensure that our work can be made available, and to protect the project from legal liability.
Respecting other copyrights
Misplaced Pages must not contain any material that violates the copyrights of others. Please do not put copyrighted material into Misplaced Pages without permission. Works in the public domain can be used freely; works from copyrighted sources that grant permission for use can often be used as well, but additional steps may be required such as crediting the original author. If you obtain permission to use a copyrighted work, please note that fact (along with names and dates) in the talk page of the article.
If you find copyrighted material here that does not appear to be used with permission, remove the content, and put an explanation in the talk page. An administrator may remove the content permanently if appropriate. If you are not sure, check the existing talk page of the article in question to see if there is discussion there about legal issues.
Misplaced Pages copyright
- This is a draft, not a statement of the real facts!
Copyrights to individual Misplaced Pages articles or parts thereof are owned by their respective authors. By placing your work in Misplaced Pages, you agree to grant its users permission to use, copy, distribute and/or modify the work under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no invariant sections, no front-cover texts, and no back-cover texts. In addition, Bomis, Inc., who maintains the server, holds a collection copyright (2001, 2002) to Misplaced Pages as a whole, and similarly grants permission to use it under the same terms.
See Misplaced Pages and copyright issues for further discussion.