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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
* Users of this website may not upload copyrighted works without proper consent from the copyright owner. | * Users of this website may not upload copyrighted works without proper consent from the copyright owner. | ||
| − | * Users may not plagiarize copyrighted works. Even if the works are public domain, citing sources is a must. Do not assume anything is in the public domain. If you make a mistake, fix it! If you see a mistake, fix it! Cite sources for everything. If there are no sources, either find a source and add it, or erase the material. Tell how you came to have permission to post the content | + | * Users may not plagiarize copyrighted works. Even if the works are public domain, citing sources is a must. Do not assume anything is in the public domain. If you make a mistake, fix it! If you see a mistake, fix it! Cite sources for everything. If there are no sources, either find a source and add it, or erase the material. Tell how you came to have permission to post the content. Stating the date of publication is helpful in determining whether it is public domain - for instance, if a hymn was published ''before'' 1923, it is public domain (the same is not necessarily true for a compilation). |
* Users must cite copyrighted works (they should cite all works - but users must cite copyrighted works) | * Users must cite copyrighted works (they should cite all works - but users must cite copyrighted works) | ||
* Users must state the copyright of all hymns, songs, and poetry they put on HymnWiki. If you don't know it, you should not post it (though you may post information about it in its article). | * Users must state the copyright of all hymns, songs, and poetry they put on HymnWiki. If you don't know it, you should not post it (though you may post information about it in its article). | ||
* Make every attempt possible to verify the copyright information before posting. Make sure to list the copyright of anything you submit, and never submit anything you do not have the rights to submit. Generally speaking, a work is in the public domain if it was published in or before the year 1923. | * Make every attempt possible to verify the copyright information before posting. Make sure to list the copyright of anything you submit, and never submit anything you do not have the rights to submit. Generally speaking, a work is in the public domain if it was published in or before the year 1923. | ||
| + | * If hymn content has been posted without a copyright notice | ||
| + | ** Do not assume you are allowed <i>any</i> rights to it. | ||
| + | ** Talk to the contributer (you can look in the article history to find out if it wasn't posted on the article itself). | ||
| + | *** If the contributer was not logged in, and there is no way to find out, just delete the page, if you can. If you cannot delete it, tell an administrator (see [[HymnWiki:Contact|Contact HymnWiki]]). | ||
==Uploaded Content== | ==Uploaded Content== | ||
Revision as of 19:57, 16 May 2007
General Information
- Users of this website may not upload copyrighted works without proper consent from the copyright owner.
- Users may not plagiarize copyrighted works. Even if the works are public domain, citing sources is a must. Do not assume anything is in the public domain. If you make a mistake, fix it! If you see a mistake, fix it! Cite sources for everything. If there are no sources, either find a source and add it, or erase the material. Tell how you came to have permission to post the content. Stating the date of publication is helpful in determining whether it is public domain - for instance, if a hymn was published before 1923, it is public domain (the same is not necessarily true for a compilation).
- Users must cite copyrighted works (they should cite all works - but users must cite copyrighted works)
- Users must state the copyright of all hymns, songs, and poetry they put on HymnWiki. If you don't know it, you should not post it (though you may post information about it in its article).
- Make every attempt possible to verify the copyright information before posting. Make sure to list the copyright of anything you submit, and never submit anything you do not have the rights to submit. Generally speaking, a work is in the public domain if it was published in or before the year 1923.
- If hymn content has been posted without a copyright notice
- Do not assume you are allowed any rights to it.
- Talk to the contributer (you can look in the article history to find out if it wasn't posted on the article itself).
- If the contributer was not logged in, and there is no way to find out, just delete the page, if you can. If you cannot delete it, tell an administrator (see Contact HymnWiki).
Uploaded Content
- Content uploaded to HymnWiki retains its original copyright. HymnWiki is not responsible for the content uploaded, nor does HymnWiki claim rights to uploaded content (nor any content submitted to HymnWiki). HymnWiki is a non-profit website - not a company. You do, however, by uploading content, grant HymnWiki the non-exclusive right to display that content on this site as long as it is on the server.
- See also the file uploads page.
