Guild Wars Wiki talk:Copyrights

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[edit] Layman's Terms

I'd appreciate a more clear explanation of how this stuff works. The project page is very vague and information on discussion page confusing. And before someone suggests it, reading GFDL legalese just gives me a migraine. So far what I got out of this mumbo-jumbo is that basically anything by Anet belongs to them and them only. Everything else is automatically licensed by GFDL. If I'm wrong, please clarify this. Also a further clarification on what images can be uploaded and cannot be uploaded into this site would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Sorry if I come across as a moron here but I'd like to avoid any future violations but I need to understand what exactly consists a violation in the first place. Cheers – Barinthus 19:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

As you say, anything that's Anet's (in-game text, stuff from the manuals, concept art, icons, screenshots) is Anet's with all rights reserved by them. We use it with their permission. All original contributions (text a user wrote him/herself, art a user drew him/herself) are automatically licensed under GFDL (which basically means it can be used for any commercial or noncommercial purposes as long as credit is given to the original contributor and all derivatives are similarly licensed under GFDL). We can also use things from other GFDL sources (as long as we give credit to the original creator) or public doman sources (credit not technically necessary, but useful). In short, what we can use: Anything from in-game, anything you create entirely yourself, things from Wikipedia as long as they're GFDL or public domain (all Wikipedia images should have their licensing information on the image page). What we cannot use: things you find from other websites or google image search, and in particular things from GuildWiki, except for things that belong to Anet in the first place, or if every contributor releases their contributions under GFDL. In all cases, if you didn't create it entirely yourself, you should credit where you got it. If you have any specific questions, most of us are happy to help. - Tanetris 20:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. What if I wanted to use an image that's copyrighted by a company but they said it's fine? Of course it did occur to me that while it may be ok with them, there may be some kind of issue on this side. Anyway the image in the question is Firefox logo. According to Mozilla's website, they're fine with me using their logo as long I didn't change it in any ways explicitly prohibited by them. They're also under GNU license (from what I can understand anyway). Wikipedia has same logo which you can find at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firefox-logo.svg So if I understand this correctly, Mozilla is perfectly fine with me using their logo so my question is does this site have any problem with me doing so? If so, of course I'll abide by that, no problem. – Barinthus 21:11, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

You have to differ between the Mozilla/Firefox software and the logo. The software is published under GNU GPL (and similar licenses) which is a software license. The logo, as I already explained here, is neither published under GPL nor GFDL, and as it is not ANet content, we are not allowed to use it here. We could use it with Fair use, but at the current state we are not allowed to do that either. poke | talk 19:45, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thumbnails

- What about 120x120px thumbnails as the ones in Gallery_of_unique_axes ? are they usable in fansites ? Nikademo 12:56, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think they are. — ク Eloc 貢 19:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)