HymnWiki:Copyright

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 unlabeled content (i.e. the file, or the article if it has such unlabeled lyrics), if you can. If you cannot delete it, or do not know how, tell an administrator (see Contact HymnWiki).
• If you have submitted content without a copyright notice and contributer information expect it to get deleted. Also, expect people to view it, regardless of what it says above (just because this site says they shouldn't expect to own any rights to it that doesn't mean HymnWiki can enforce that; plus, many casual users will never read this page; people viewing such content - if you own the content and have submitted yourself - would probably go under 'fair use', anyway; if you have not provided copyright/license and contributer information, you have violated the terms of this website and should expect that anyone might view and/or download your content; HymnWiki is not responsible for what they do with it, but you are responsible to tell them what they are, and are not, permitted to do with it).

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.

See Also

• Public Domain