A guide to copyright on this wiki
The Battlefield series itself is the intellectual property of Digital Illusions and/or Electronic Arts.
See also:
Text
Contrary to popular belief, content in a wiki is copyrighted. However, all text is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See Wikia:Wikia copyrights for details.
Since contributors are required to license their work under Creative Commons, it logically follows that they cannot submit any copyrighted work without appropriate permission from the copyright holder - they are legally incapable of licensing content to which they do not own the rights. Of course, if the copyright holder allows their material to be distributed under the Creative Commons, and has been properly attributed, then this is perfectly fine.
Images
What is OK
- Your own images
- Images from Wikipedia, but check the license with the criteria below
- The 'Battlefield' logo and game covers, see 'Fair Use' below
- Images are preferable under GDFL, Public Domain or Creative Commons
What isn't OK
- Images from the internet, they may not be copyrighted but it's best to be safe
Make sure you always state the source (URL) of the image
THE SOURCE URL MUST ALWAYS BE INCLUDED OR THE IMAGE WILL HAVE TO BE DELETED (UNLESS THE IMAGE IS YOUR OWN AND YOU STATE AS SUCH)
Image Licenses
When contributing images, make sure you license them properly:
- Fair Use - Copyrighted, but with no non-copyrighted alternative (Battlefield logo and game covers), when uploading select This will be used...as fair use. MUST BE SOURCED. See wikipedia:Fair use
- Unknown or None Selected - If you do not know the copyright, don't contribute it - it will be deleted.
- Your own image - Select I took this myself. Under this license, copyright is reserved for the uploader
- Got from Wikipedia, another Wikia or another Wikimedia project - Please do not select this, select the same option as it was under at the source
- Copyrighted but you have permission - Select the relevant option. You must state the owner of the copyright and details of the permission
- Public domain - Uncopyrighted due to never being copyrighted or the copyright expiring (YOU MUST STATE WHY), it is hard to tell, so its probably best not to contribute these. But if you know for sure it is public domain, you may contribute it under this licence. See wikipedia:Public domain
- Creative Commons - These images must be licensed as CC-BY-SA
- GDFL and Other Free Licenses - These must be licensed as Other free. You must explicitly state which license.
Templates and Categories
- Template:Self - Category:Self Images
- Template:Permission - Category:Permitted images
- Template:PD - Category:PD Images
- Template:None selected, Template:From Wikimedia, Template:No license - Category:Images needing review
- Template:Fairuse - Category:Fair Use Images
- Template:CC-BY-SA - Category:CC-BY-SA
- Template:Other free - Category:Other Free Images