History Administrivia / AboutImagesAndCopyright

* If generative algorithms are used to create a work, in whole or in part, such content may be troped, assuming that it meets our other policies.
* Reproduction of a generated work (art, video, text) on our site, in whole or in part, must follow the rules stated in the rest of this policy.

For historical and cultural information on these topics, see UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} and UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}}.

This is especially problematic if the sites' content licenses are not compatible. TV Tropes has a "share-alike" clause in its content license, so you may not reproduce our content on Wikia, which does not have such a clause in its license.

Videos with bugs are not allowed.

* We may not use images or videos with '''watermarks'''. We may under certain circumstances use images with '''bugs''', but not videos. Regardless, the bug or watermark may not be removed.

We will honor all take down requests based on copyright. That is really the entirety of the wiki's obligation. We are not obligated to seek out permissions for excerpt use or to investigate to discover what a creator's copyright policy might be.

This is especially problematic if the sites' content licenses are not compatible. TV Tropes has a "non-commercial" clause in its content license, so you may not reproduce our content on Wikia, which does not have a "non-commercial" clause in its license.

Copying text from other websites or publications and pasting it into wiki articles is plagiarism. If you do this, you will be banned and your work deleted. That said, there are ways to copy text legally within the bounds of Fair Use. '''All''' of the criteria listed must be satisfied:

As a reminder, all content you contribute is licensed to TV Tropes. Details of our contribution license may be found in Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes. You commit copyright infringement when you contribute content that you do not have the rights to, except as discussed below. You commit plagiarism when you copy someone else's work without crediting them.

As a reminder, all content you contribute is licensed to TV Tropes. Details of our contribution license may be found in Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes. You violate that license when you do not have the rights to contribute content, except as discussed below. You commit plagiarism when you copy someone else's work without crediting them.

Note: This policy is about copyright and plagiarism in general. For information about TV Tropes' obligations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, click 'DMCA Notice' in the site footer.

Specifically, while you retain the license to anything you contribute to TV Tropes, TV Tropes ''also'' gets a license to that content. It is attributed to this wiki. So if an identical copy shows up on another site (without attribution), that site may be plagiarizing TV Tropes.

* We may only use a '''representative portion''' of of the image or video, not all of it. Specifically, we should only use enough of the work to properly illustrate the concept that it's associated with (e.g. a trope or work).

Hopefully that clears up questions about how and when we can show parts of works. If you see plagiarized text or have questions about the plagiarism policy, post in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14727740310A09919300 this thread]]. If you have further questions about images, post the question in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1317986693061200100 this thread]]. If you see a page image that you think violates these guidelines, make a thread for it in the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=images Image Pickin']] forum.

!! Text and Plagiarism

!! Copyright symbols

!! Watermarks

A watermark is any printing or image deliberately overlaid across the image in order to interfere with seeing it completely clearly. It's an anti-theft measure. We can't use it. Period. The artist might provide us with an un-watermarked version, but it's on us to ask for it, and if we don't get it then we need to look somewhere else. Making a copy of the image and then Photoshopping out the watermark is '''not''' kosher.

!! Bugs

In order to talk about creativity we sometimes want to show a part of the thing created. That is cool. It is called Fair Use. In order to make the use fair, we have to follow some rules. The big ones that make the rest of the little ones easy to remember are: '''You can only show an excerpt, not the whole thing,''' and '''You must give credit to the original creator.'''

In order to talk about creativity we sometimes want to show a part of the thing created. That is cool. It is called Fair Use. In order to make the use fair, we have to follow some rules. The big one that makes the rest of the little ones easy to remember is: '''You can only show an excerpt, not the whole thing.'''

TV Tropes takes copyright seriously. People copyright things because they want to make their living from the creative process that made the thing. We are all about creativity.

Note: This policy is about copyright in general. For information about TV Tropes' obligations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, click 'DMCA Notice' in the site footer.

-> "In the good ending, you're a virtuous flower child with love and a smile for all the shiny-coated beasts of God's kingdom, and in the bad ending you're some kind of hybrid of Hitler and Skeletor whose very piss is pure liquid malevolence."\\

The wiki takes copyright seriously. People copyright things because they want to make their living from the creative process that made the thing. We are all about creativity.

The simplest way to attribute a quotation is to {{pothole}} it to the source. The source can be a wiki article (for quotes taken from a work or creator) or an external link. For excerpts or long-form quotes, add an attribution line with a suitable link.