WikiFur:Copyrights

Written work
All written work submitted to WikiFur is placed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC-BY-SA) and, unless otherwise specified, the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The copyright of work submitted to this Wiki remains with the copyright holder - which, if you wrote it, will be you. Submitting your work does not restrict what you can do with it; it just permits us to do certain things with it as well.

By submitting your work, you grant WikiFur permission to distribute it under the terms of the CC-BY-SA and the GFDL, and you accept that others may modify and distribute your work under the same terms. That means they may change what articles say, and make copies of WikiFur articles on other sites, as long as they license such copies under the CC-BY-SA and/or GFDL.


 * Note that you cannot retract this license. You can, of course, edit an article to alter or remove your work if you do not want it there anymore, but you cannot stop someone reinstating it. Please think carefully about whether you want to write something on WikiFur before you do so.

Submitting the work of others
You may submit the work of others if they say it is in the public domain, or freely licensed under the CC-BY-SA, or a compatible license (the GFDL alone is not a compatible license). Just copying from a website with no indication that the work is under such a license is not acceptable; such work is liable to removal. This applies to written works, visual art and all other forms of creative expression.

You must comply with any attribution requirements for the original work. If you submit work that is under the CC-BY-SA but not the GFDL, please note this in the page footer, edit summary or on the talk page.

Redistribution of content
To people wishing to distribute WikiFur's text content:
 * WikiFur is Copyright © to its contributors. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, using the work's URL as attribution; and, unless otherwise specified, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.

The CC-BY-SA requires you to link back to our article. If you use the GFDL, you must link back if you modify the work, and you must also list the most prominent original authors. In any case, you must license your copy under the CC-BY-SA and/or the GFDL — and give a public indication of this license — so that it remains free for others others to copy and modify.

You should read the above licenses and the reusers' rights and obligations section of Wikipedia (which explains this in much more detail) before copying work. Having done so, feel free to export an article or download the database.

WikiFur News
WikiFur News articles are licensed under the CC-BY-SA, the GFDL and Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. You may use any or all of these when redistributing content from the WikiFur News archives (pages prefaced with "News:").

Images
Images and other uploads may be submitted under the CC-BY-SA, another free license, or as fair use, but please be careful about the last one as it is open to interpretation. If in doubt, please contact a curator.

Misuse of copyrighted work
WikiFur does not support copyright infringement, though as noted above we do permit fair use. If you find your work is here without your permission, please contact the WikiFur curators.