Fanlore:Copyright
Copyrighted material on Fanlore
Fanlore operates under the same principles as the Organization for Transformative Works: we believe that fanworks are transformative and therefore not in violation of copyright law.
Other copyrighted material that is not transformative, such as images or stills from source texts, can also be included in Fanlore under a fair use provision, for purposes of illustration and example.
Do not violate this stance by infringing on copyright, that is to say:
- Do not include excessive amounts of original media in Fanlore;
- Do not link to copyright-infringing, non-transformative material like illegal copies of media (songs/audio files, films, television episodes, entire digital copies of books or comics, etc).
Fanlore's own licence
Fanlore operates under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license.
In short, this means that other people may lawfully re-use any original work posted to Fanlore in other contexts, as long as: 1) they properly attribute said content to Fanlore, and 2) they do not use this content for a commercial purpose.
This means that any material you contribute to Fanlore may legitimately be used and duplicated on other sites or in other publications (published with attribution, and leading back to its original context on Fanlore).
For more information on all of the above, see Fanlore:Terms of Service.
