GTA Wiki:Copyright Templates


 * See: Category:Copyright for a complete list of copyright templates

Certain templates can be used on articles and images to display the copyright information for that page, section or image. Using templates is preferable to manually writing the copyright information for reasons of completeness, categorisation, relevant links and updatability.

Articles
All articles on GTA Wiki fall under the GNU FDL (see copy). This means that anybody may use content from GTA Wiki for research purposes, either personal, commercial or for another site. However, content should not be copied directly to another site without gaining permission from a Manager first, on the Copyright discussion page. No copyright template is required for normal text.

The exceptions to this are mainly the quotes used in certain articles, and the names of companies and products - these are used on GTA Wiki in the belief that they qualify as fair use, and do not detract anything from the Copyright owners or impede their right to sell the Copyright material. For this reason, a copyright template is not required so long as the source is either mentioned or linked to on the same page, usually in the References section of an article.

Images
By default, images uploaded to GTA Wiki fall under the GNU FDL as applies for articles. However, different rules apply to images taken from other sources, or if the creator wishes to use a separate licence for their work.

of Grand Theft Auto games are believed to be fair use, as they do not detract from the experience of playing the game, so does not replace the purchase of the game. All screenshots on GTA Wiki should use Template:Screenshot (except where a more specific template is available):

For screenshots directly from the game, the appropriate templates for the game should be used instead.

If the creator of the work decides to remove all copyright restrictions on their work, allowing it to be reused or modified for any purpose, Template:No copyright should be used:

If the creator wishes to licence the image under the Creative Commons licence "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales", it gives people the right to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, but they must give the original author credit, not use it for commercial purposes and not alter, transform, or build upon it. The template for this is Template:Copyright, used as, with internal and [  external links] allowed in the author field.