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All The Tropes:How to Pick A Good Image: Difference between revisions
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(→Copyright and Fair Use: "Taking screenshots or scans of this Creative Commons wiki for illustrative purposes falls under fair use". No, they don't - every page on the wiki, including this one, says otherwise. Taking screenshots or scans of this wiki for illustrative purposes falls under CC-BY-SA - that's what the "SA" part *means*.) |
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* The wiki aims to be safe for work in its images. Avoid [[Gorn]], nudity, and [[Squick]]. (This means that pages about pornographic works might end up with no images at all.)
=== [[All The Tropes:Copyrights|Copyright
* Pictures look nicer without "station bugs" (watermark-like logos in the corner, added by a broadcasting TV station).
* "Artist scribbles" and signatures are fine.
* Taking screenshots or scans of [[All The Tropes|this wiki]] for illustrative purposes (or any other purposes) falls under the same Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license that the wiki itself falls under. (That's what the "Share Alike" part of the licence means - you can't change the terms when you make a derivative work such as a screenshot.)
* [[Real Life]] pictures: although [[This Wiki]] documents devices in fiction, sometimes a real life picture is the best available. ([[Schmuck Bait]] is an example.)
* Artist permission is always nice to have. If you want to use an artist's work as a page image, it is common courtesy to send an email to the artist and ask for their permission. Here is an example that was sent and responded to with permission:
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