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[[All The Tropes:About|All The Tropes]] uses a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported] license (CC-BY-SA). All text on the site is licensed under CC-BY-SA
Images may or may not be under the CC-BY-SA license -- you'll have to check each image's metadata page individually. Because we cover the media, much of what we are fair use images to represent the copyrighted works in question, and remain the property of their respective owners.
This page is part of our [[All The Tropes:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]].
== What you can do with All The Tropes content==
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== What can I add to All The Tropes?==
Anything you write, of course.
You can also add any content that has the same license, CC-BY-SA, or a compatible license:
* Public Domain
* CC-Zero
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== Can I just copy over stuff from TV Tropes?==
No. Not even if you wrote it yourself. TV Tropes claims full ownership of all content you post there, and expressly do not allow you to sublicense the text in question.
Nope, unless you wrote the relevant portion<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>. They 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 [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#If_I_derive_or_adapt_a_work_offered_under_a_Creative_Commons_license.2C_which_CC_license.28s.29_can_I_apply_to_the_resulting_work.3F here] and [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_happens_if_I_offer_my_work_under_a_Creative_Commons_license_and_someone_misuses_my_work.3F here] for more info on the problems of converting CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC-SA licensing.</ref> We don't want to get involved in distributing content with such questionable copyright status.▼
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However, you can add TVT content if it was created before July 2012, but more than likely, this site already has all of those pages.
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You can sell it, do anything you want with it -- but anyone else can come along and make an even better work based on yours. Well, we hope it's better. If you're reusing images, be sure to check them individually, because they may be copyrighted content used under fair use. This is not legal advice, so use your best judgement.
For any content you write, you may reuse it for any purpose whatsoever. All The Tropes disclaims any ownership of user-submitted content, and distributes only licensed content.
== 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, 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.
However, anything that you write on this website may be copied over to TV Tropes afterwards. You lose ownership of your writing to TV Tropes in so doing, but your original CC-BY-SA license stays in effect, and cannot be revoked by TV Tropes.
== Hey, you infringed my (or my boss') copyright!==
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