Wikibooks:Copyrights
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Publication by third parties
You may use the same title as the Wikibooks book and/or module(s) but trademark law prevents you from advertising the Wikibooks or Wikimedia names without our written permission. This does not prevent you from giving either Wikibooks or Wikimedia credit for the work by name; as a matter of fact we very much appreciate all the credit we can get (this is a separate issue from author credit; see below). But it does legally prevent you from leading your readers to believe that your version of our work is in fact an official Wikibooks or Wikimedia publication. See below for more.
Use on the Internet
For specifics read: GNU Free Documentation License
- Mention Wikibooks as the source (not mandatory; but appreciated)
- Provide a functional link back to the Wikibooks book or Wikibooks module (this satisfies the author credit requirement of our license)
- State that the text is available under the GNU Free Documentation License
- Link to a copy of the GFDL license (preferably stored on your own server).
- Your version of the text must be machine readable (meaning you cannot prevent others from copying the text)
Use in hardcopy
For specifics read: GNU Free Documentation License
- Mention Wikibooks as the source (not mandatory; but appreciated)
- Give credit to at least 5 authors listed on the "Authors" page of whatever book you are re-publishing (if fewer than 5 then include all).
- State that the text is available under the GNU Free Documentation License on at least one page of the book with the above bolded copyright notice.
- A full copy of the license needs to be included with the printed book.
- Whenever more than 100 copies are made, you must (choose one):
- Provide a floppy disk, CD, DVD or other computer media with the entire content of the book in machine readable text.
- Provide a network link to a website where the machine readable text can be obtained (this link must remain active for at least one year after publication of the hardcopy; if all you are doing is making an exact copy of a Wikibooks book, then you may use the URL of the corresponding Wikibooks book index page).
Copyright infringements
If you are the owner of content that is being used on Wikibooks without your permission, then please contact our Designated agent to have it permanently removed (you may blank the page but the text will still be in the page history). You may also place the module title of the offending page on Wikibooks:Votes for deletion. We will, of course, need some evidence to support your claim of ownership.
If you suspect that content on a particular module contains a copyright infringement, you may then add to the top of the page {{copyvio|<web page or source the contents was copied from>}}
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The posting of copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder(s) is possibly illegal and is a violation of our copyright policy. Those who repeatedly post copyrighted material may be temporarily blocked from editing Wikibooks. A Wikibookian believes the text of this book or page infringes on the copyright of the follow source(s):
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In addition, this template will automatically add the violating page to Category:Copyright violations which will be reviewed by administrators at Wikibooks.
Fair Use Material
In some situations you may encounter material on Wikibooks that has been added according to the Wikibooks:Fair Use Policy. The restricted sub-set of fair-use material should be legal to reproduce in most countries around the world, but you should check with expert legal opinion if you plan to commercially reproduce this sort of content, or if you plan on distributing a large number of copies of any Wikibooks content that uses this sort of material. All material that is being used under fair-use guidelines should be clearly identified as such, either through an image copyright identification tag or within the Wikibook itself.
