Camera-wiki.org:Copyrights

Text published in Camerapedia

All the text published in Camerapedia is released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts.

Camerapedia is considered to be a collection of documents, as opposed to a single document. Every single page is a document in itself, comprising:

• the title;
• the main text, that is the publicly editable text of the document;
• the page history (this is still debatable);
• the licence and copyright statement situated at the bottom of the page.

Inline images are not considered a part of the document, but rather are aggregated with it (see below).

External links

External links are of course allowed. They must be presented in order to make clear that the link is external. Depending on the context, the default mediawiki presentation (like [1] or this) might be considered insufficient, and it is encouraged to add a full description of the page that is pointed to.

In case of deep links, pointing to a specific page or frame in an external website, it is strongly advised to add a link to the entry page too.

For example: See the Copyrights page in the Camerapedia website is preferable to See here.

Deep links directly pointing to anything else than an HTML page (like an image) is forbidden, except if the owner of the page has explicitly given the permission to do so.

Images published in Camerapedia

The images published in Camerapedia are hosted in Flickr, see the page about Adding Images, except for some images that are directly hosted on other people's websites. The latter is allowed only if the owner of the website has explicitly given the permission to do so.

It is not possible to upload any image to a Flickr account for insertion into Camerapedia. We need to make sure that we don't use other people's copyrighted pictures without their consent.

The matter of whether publishing a copyrighted picture in Camerapedia when the owner of the copyright allows the publication in Camerapedia without explicitly licensing the picture under Creative Commons, the GFDL or another so-called "free" licence, is currently debated.

The images included in a Camerapedia document are considered to be aggregated with it (see the section 7 of the GFDL). Thus an image published in Camerapedia is not in itself a Camerapedia document, and it keeps its original licensing status. This means that the right to re-use it and the potential restrictions to this right entirely depend on the original licensing status of the image. When the image is hosted by Flickr, you will find its licensing status on the Flickr page that the image is linked to. When it is hosted on another website, you must ask the owner of the website about its licensing status.

Note to re-users of Camerapedia content

In any case, it is up to the potential re-user of Camerapedia content to check under which conditions he can re-use a Camerapedia document, a part of it or an aggregated document, and to properly attribute it when needed. Please note that Camerapedia cannot be held responsible if someone makes unauthorized use of its content.