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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? ==
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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-NC-SA, are preferred. Note that anything without a specified copyright is still under a copyright due to the [[wikipedia:Berne Convention|Berne Convention]].
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 name="big-copy">"Big enough" or "important chunk" 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.
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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