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This includes Wikipedia pages, though we encourage coming up with content from a trope point of view, rather than just blindly copying [[The Other Wiki]]. Make sure you remember the "By" part of the license -- always attribute your source, in the page text or in the edit comment.
Quotes from copyrighted works can be used under the United States' fair use law (U.S.C. § 107), so long as they're not trying to reproduce some huge or important chunk of the original work.<ref name="big-copy" /> Just don't quote a whole scene or something, or what we'd "have here is a failure to communicate." See [[wikipedia:Fair use|Wikipedia's fair use page]] for more details on how the law works, if you need to know.
== What images can I add to All The Tropes? ==
When you add an image, you should look for an image that has a free license, like any Creative Commons or GFDL. Anything on the list above, plus CC-BY
But if you can't find a libre image, that's okay -- under s30 of the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988] of the UK, ATT can use images to represent a work, so long as we're using them for the purpose of criticism or review ''and'' we provide sufficient acknowledgement of the copyright.
But if you can't find a libre image, that's okay -- under the U.S. [[wikipedia:fair use|fair use]] law, ATT can use images to represent a work, so long as we're not providing a big enough portion of the original content that it could affect the profits of the original work.<ref>"Big enough" in this case means "people won't want to read, watch, or listen to the work if they read the excerpt", so there's no hard-and-fast size here. "Big enough" could be as small as a character's name, if that name is "whodunnit" in ''[[The Mousetrap]]''.</ref> This is a necessary part of representing works in media, the vast majority of which are sold for profit. Remember, media companies often distribute publicity images that are meant to be shared for informative purposes.▼
Yes, we are ''required by law'' to provide the sources of the copyrighted images we use. Failing to do so puts the entire wiki at risk, which is why [[All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here|Tropers can be tempbanned for failing to provide an image's source information]].
In any case, you should always add the license for the work. Each image has a corresponding page in the "File:" namespace to store the metadata for the image. On this page, you should select the best template for the license, or otherwise describe our right to have it on our website. If the image does not have a free license, make sure to mark the image as fair use.▼
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▲In any case, you <s>should</s> ''must'' always add the license for the work. Each image has a corresponding page in the "File:" namespace to store the metadata for the image. On this page, you should select the best [[All The Tropes:List of Image License Templates|template for the license]], or otherwise describe our right to have it on our website. If the image does not have a free license, make sure to mark the image as fair
== Can I just copy over stuff from TV Tropes?==
In general, '''no''' -- you may not copy content from TV Tropes, since this might violate the CC-BY-NC-SA license. But there are exceptions -- see below.
TV Tropes used to have a CC-BY-SA license, but they changed to a more restrictive license in July 2012. Since the change in license was done without the permission of some editors, it is unclear if they even have permission to distribute a large portion of their current content.<ref>See the Creative Commons FAQ [
Exceptions:
; Content you wrote
: Copying is allowed '''if''' you created (wrote) the portion you copied over.<ref>Only the exact edits made by you count. Anything added by other people is not allowed unless they permit you to resubmit it elsewhere, and you must have their permission</ref> It is also allowed if the author has given you permission, such as through a dual-license notice on the author's user page. When you do so, note in the edit summary that this is your own writing, so we don't just assume that you blindly copied content. Lines like "my own writing" or "copied edits by me from TVT" are sufficient.<ref>Please note that lying about having the right to copy text from TV Tropes is [[All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here|one of the few ways to be banned from All The Tropes permanently and without warning]]. And we ''do'' check.</ref>
; TV Tropes as a reference
: You can, however, use TV Tropes as a reference to your own writing. Avoid paraphrasing; we want to come up with new content. The names of the tropes used in a work (or a list of works that make use of a trope) are raw data, and thus not subject to copyright. They are facts, and can be used on our wiki. However, any description of how a work qualifies for a trope (or vice-versa) is copyrightable; do not copy the context for examples from TV Tropes.
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== Can I copy something from this site to TV Tropes? ==
No, you cannot. They use a Creative Commons license with a Non-Commercial clause added, [https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-combine-material-under-different-creative-commons-licenses-in-my-work and so the two licenses are completely incompatible]. Distributing CC-BY-SA content as CC-BY-NC-SA content is copyright infringement, unless the permission of all previous editors was given for that page. You can feel free to ask those editors, though. Note, your ''own'' edits only are able to used on both sites, but it is recommended you make that clear in the edit reasons there (as you would here if reposting your own work from TV Tropes) you are porting your own work, as under Creative Commons you may resubmit your own work under whatever license you deem fit, but not anyone else's without permission.
Do note failure to do so can be considered "self-plagiarism", and can cause copyright disputes if you do not make clear you are submitting work from sites with different copyright licenses as the same edits to one or more sites. To avoid this, use edit reasons on each to make clear your intentions.
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