Please see our Copyright Section in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. An excerpt is provided here for your convienence. In case of any inaccuracy, the original copy holds.
By uploading media, you agree that you have permission to upload such media. Note that all photos of original game assets, assets in public domain in game, or assets with prior permission are allowed to be used in this Wiki under terms set by Game Developers. Generally, it is okay to screenshot something and add it here, but in doubt or if in a sticky situation, contact our administrators or moderators. Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, we will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. We sincerely apologise if you believe that your copyrighted content is being used in a manner that you believe violates your rights. We would be happy to make amends as soon as we can; please contact us at the email stated above.
Please note that all contributions except media content created by you to the Dovedale Wiki are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA) unless otherwise stated. This means that although you the editor are the holder of the copyright, you have given blanket and irrevocable permission to the world at large to reuse, remix, and transform your work as long as you are attributed as the author. Please note that images are not automatically released under the CC BY-SA license, unless created by you and uploaded to this site.
Third party sources can use content from this wiki. This is acceptable under the Creative Commons license. All third parties must provide proper attribution on every article and link back. An example may be found on the Creative Commons website.
If you want to add copyrighted content to our wiki, the use of the material will have to qualify as fair use or similar exception. The following factors are considered by courts to determine whether an item's usage counts as fair use:
- Purpose of the use
- Nature of the copyrighted work
- Amount and substantiality of copyrighted work used compared to the work as a whole
- Potential market for the copyrighted work
- You have the permission of the copyright holder to use it on our services..
- The material you want to use is licensed under a Creative Commons or other open license that permits free reuse.
- The material is in the public domain.
- You have created the material yourself.
- If your use of content does not fall under one of these broad categories, it likely infringes someone's copyright. It is therefore against our Terms of Service to submit that material. We recommend using content that has a compatible license or is released to the public domain whenever possible.
When uploading a file, you should tag it with the appropriate copyright tag, in order to make its copyright status clear. Remember: all images uploaded should be used under fair use or be images that are freely available, with or without conditions or restrictions. You must adhere to any licensing requirements, such as attributing the author and source on the file description page.
There are penalties for breaching such copyright laws if you are a user of this wiki.