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* 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.
* 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.
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* If generative algorithms are used to create a work, in whole or in part, such content may be troped, assuming that it meets satisfies our other policies.
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* Reproduction of a generated work (art, video, text) on our site, in whole or in part, mustfollow the rules stated in adhere to the rest of this policy.
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As of May, 2024, this policy contains an addendum on AI-generated content.
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!! AI-Generated Content
TV Tropes takes no specific position on AI-generated content, including art and videos. It works exactly like any other form of content: we follow our copyright and plagiarism policy (until or unless the formal legal landscape decides otherwise).
* Generated content is not prohibited or discouraged in and of itself.
* If someone makes a claim of ownership of such content, we will handle that as we would any other claim.
* 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.
TV Tropes takes no specific position on AI-generated content, including art and videos. It works exactly like any other form of content: we follow our copyright and plagiarism policy (until or unless the formal legal landscape decides otherwise).
* Generated content is not prohibited or discouraged in and of itself.
* If someone makes a claim of ownership of such content, we will handle that as we would any other claim.
* 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.
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For historical and cultural information on these topics, see UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} and UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}}.
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For historical and cultural information on these topics, see UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} MediaNotes/{{Copyright}} and UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}}.
MediaNotes/{{Plagiarism}}.
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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.
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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, Fandom, which does not have such a clause in its license.
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Videos with bugs are not allowed.
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* 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.
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* We may not use images or videos with '''watermarks'''. We may under certain circumstances use images and videos with '''bugs''', but not videos.'''bugs'''. Regardless, the bug or watermark may not be removed.
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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.
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We will honor all reasonable 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.
be. See our DMCA Notice, linked at the bottom of this page, for more information on making claims.
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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.
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This is especially problematic if the sites' content licenses are not compatible. TV Tropes has a "non-commercial" "share-alike" clause in its content license, so you may not reproduce our content on Wikia, which does not have such a "non-commercial" clause in its license.
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* Permission '''must''' be sought if an entire work, especially in the case of a single-panel comic or an artwork on a site like Website/DeviantArt, is being considered for use on the wiki. Only an affirmative from the creator will be accepted; until they respond, the answer is assumed to be "no". The sole exceptions to this, outside of works in the public domain, are comics from ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' and ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'', as their creators have allowed us to freely use their comics as page images as needed.
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** On the forums, [quoteblock] markup may be used as well.
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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:
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Copying text from other websites or publications and pasting it into wiki articles is plagiarism.plagiarism and may also be copyright infringement. 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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 commit copyright infringement when you contribute content that license when you do not have the rights to contribute content, to, except as discussed below. You commit plagiarism when you copy someone else's work without crediting them.
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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.
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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 sitefooter.
footer. For information about TV Tropes' usage license, which is distinct from our contribution license, see Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes.
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
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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.
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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.
Tropes, or vice-versa.
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* 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).
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* 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).
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Simple guidelines for the use of images and videos are as follows:
* We '''must attribute''' the image or video to its source. Potholing it to a TV Tropes article is acceptable.
** If the source is not known, go to [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1503037810056781700 this forum thread]] or add a link to Administrivia/ImagesWithoutASource.
* 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).
* 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.
* External links should be to the '''original or first-party content''', not someone's copy of that content, whenever possible.
* We '''must attribute''' the image or video to its source. Potholing it to a TV Tropes article is acceptable.
** If the source is not known, go to [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1503037810056781700 this forum thread]] or add a link to Administrivia/ImagesWithoutASource.
* 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).
* 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.
* External links should be to the '''original or first-party content''', not someone's copy of that content, whenever possible.
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!!! Copying your own writing (self-plagiarism)
So-called "self-plagiarism" occurs when you write something on a website that accepts contributions, such as TV Tropes, and then write exactly the same content for another site, like Wikipedia. '''You''' have the right to do this, but these sites do not have the rights to carry identical content and may be accused of plagiarizing each other.
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.
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.
A similar situation may occur if you write unlicensed content, such as a fanfic, then reproduce it on TV Tropes without following the above rules (attribution, excerpt only, etc.). This is not permitted. Do not copy your own work on TV Tropes.
!!! Summaries and synopses
Summaries and synopses are especially frequent targets of plagiarism. '''DO NOT''', under any circumstances, copy the synopsis of a work, work episode, character, actor, media company, or any other subject from another site and use it as the description of that subject on TV Tropes, even if you wrote it yourself.
So-called "self-plagiarism" occurs when you write something on a website that accepts contributions, such as TV Tropes, and then write exactly the same content for another site, like Wikipedia. '''You''' have the right to do this, but these sites do not have the rights to carry identical content and may be accused of plagiarizing each other.
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.
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.
A similar situation may occur if you write unlicensed content, such as a fanfic, then reproduce it on TV Tropes without following the above rules (attribution, excerpt only, etc.). This is not permitted. Do not copy your own work on TV Tropes.
!!! Summaries and synopses
Summaries and synopses are especially frequent targets of plagiarism. '''DO NOT''', under any circumstances, copy the synopsis of a work, work episode, character, actor, media company, or any other subject from another site and use it as the description of that subject on TV Tropes, even if you wrote it yourself.
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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.
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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. \n If you see a video example that you think violates these guidelines, post about it in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16096748880A32952300 this thread]].
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!! 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.
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.
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A watermark is any printing or image deliberately overlaid across the image or video 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.
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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.'''
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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: are:
* '''You can only show an excerpt, not the wholething,''' and '''You must give credit to the original creator.thing.'''
* '''You must give credit to the original creator.'''
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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.'''
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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 ones that makes make the rest of the little ones easy to remember is: are: '''You can only show an excerpt, not the whole thing.thing,''' and '''You must give credit to the original creator.'''
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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.
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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.
creativity. TV Tropes also takes plagiarism seriously. Regardless of whether something is copyrighted, copying it and passing it off as your own work is not okay.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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-- ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGxo2X4B_LE (Bioshock)]]