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Revision as of 16:37, 17 April 2002
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 ensure that we are not violating the copyrights of others.
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.
Respecting other copyrights
Misplaced Pages should 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, 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, notify an administrator to have it removed. If you are not sure, check the talk page of the article in question to see if there is discussion there about legal issues.
See Misplaced Pages and copyright issues for further discussion.