UCNISS/Sport Wiki Academy/Copyright licenses
When dealing with wikis and other content related to your sport organization on the web, always consider the copyright implications. Ask yourself:
- Who owns the content I post?
- Who has a right to repost content I share?
- Who has a right to modify, remix or make derivatives of content I publish?
Different wikis and websites have different policies regarding copyright. You want to make sure that the content you share complies with copyright policies inside your sport organization.
What are free licenses?
editThe following table was created on Freedom Defined [1] and gives an idea as to what several free licenses allow:
| License | Intended scope | Copyleft | Practical modifiability | Attribution | Related rights | Access control prohibition | Worldwide applicability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Against DRM [2] | Works of art | Normal | No | Copyright notice | Granted | Licensor & Licensee | Exact translations |
| Creative Commons Attribution [3] | Generic | No | No | Copyright notice | No | Yes | National adaptations |
| Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike [4] | Generic | Normal | No | Copyright notice | No | Yes | National adaptations |
| Design Science License [5] | Generic, optimally science data | Normal | Yes | Copyright notice | No | No | Same license (English version) |
| Free Art License [6] | Works of art | Normal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Exact translations (French law) |
| FreeBSD Documentation License [7] | Documentation | No | Yes | Copyright notice | Yes | Yes | Same license (English version) |
| GNU Free Documentation License [8] | Documentation | Normal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Same license (English version) |
| GNU Lesser General Public License [9] | Generic, optimally Software | Weak | Yes | Copyright notice | Yes | Yes | Same license (English version) |
| GNU General Public License [10] | Generic, optimally Software | Strong | Yes | Copyright notice | Yes | Version 3 prohibits "Tivoisation" in certain cases | Same license (English version) |
| Lizenz für Freie Inhalte [11] | Generic | Normal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown (license text is German) |
| MirOS Licence [12] | Generic (software, content, …) | Copycenter | Yes | Copyright notice | Yes | Not desired, as that would be an additional restriction | Same licence (English version) |
| MIT License [13] | Software | No | Yes | Copyright notice | Yes | Yes | Same license (English version) |
What copyright does Wikipedia use?
editWikipedia uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License copyright. This means that any contributions you make to Wikipedia, others are allowed to:
Anyone doing that must do so under the following conditions:
- Attribution—You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work.) [16]
- Share Alike—If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license. [17]