TLP:Copyrights

Summary: All contributions to The Louverture Project (TLP) are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the copyleft licensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible.

Unless otherwise specifically prohibited, any content on The Louverture Project may be used under terms of the aforementioned Creative Commons license, which provides that:


 * you identify the source of the material;
 * you may not make money from your use of the material;
 * your use of the material is covered under the same Creative Commons license terms.

Text Content
Anyone is free to use the text content of The Louverture Project in websites, articles, or other publications, provided you follow the guidelines of the designated Creative Commons License.

If you are simply duplicating an article at The Louverture Project, those obligations might be fulfilled by providing a conspicuous direct link back to the article hosted on this website.

If you create a derivative version by changing or adding content, you need to both acknowledge authorship and provide access to the original copy of the text.

Images and Other Media
Images that are displayed at The Louverture Project remain the property of their original creators, and are only included on this website for purposes of illustration under fair use guidelines. Unless the original author of the image expressly grants permission, images do not fall under the scope of the Creative Commons License. In all cases, the images must be accompanied by a specific note with:


 * credit for the original author of the image or other media file including a link where the original author may be contacted, or
 * the original source of the image or other media file

You must also include information about:


 * whether the file is uploaded to The Louverture Project with express permission of the author, or under fair use rules, and
 * the source of the file, being a specific episode, movie, book, other official work, a website, or any other medium.

Contributors' Rights and Obligations
If you contribute material to The Louverture Project, you thereby license it to the public under the Creative Commons License. In order to contribute, you therefore must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either

you own the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under a Creative Commons or similar license, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under Creative Commons License.

In the first case, you retain copyright to your materials. You can later republish and relicense them in any way you like. In the second case, if you incorporate external Creative Commons License materials, as a requirement of the GFDL, you need to acknowledge the authorship and provide a link back to the network location of the original copy.

Using Copyrighted Work from Others
If you use part of a copyrighted work under "fair use," or if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact (along with names and dates). It is our goal to be able to freely redistribute as much of The Louverture Project's material as possible (within the limits of copyright law), so original images and sound files licensed under the Creative Commons License or in the public domain are greatly preferred to copyrighted media files used under fair use.

Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project. If in doubt, write it yourself.

Note that copyright law governs the creative expression of ideas, not the ideas or information themselves. Therefore, it is perfectly legal to read an encyclopedia article or other work, reformulate it in your own words, and submit it to The Louverture Project.

If You Find a Copyright Infringement
It is not the job of rank-and-file contributors to The Louverture Project to police every article for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue in that page's comments section. Others can then examine the situation and take action if needed. The most helpful piece of information you can provide is a URL or other reference to what you believe may be the source of the text.

Some cases will be false alarms. For example, if the contributor was in fact the author of the text that is published elsewhere under different terms, that does not affect their right to post it here under the Creative Commons License. Also, sometimes you will find text elsewhere on the Web that was copied from The Louverture Project. In both of these cases, it is a good idea to make a note in the talk page to discourage such false alarms in the future.

If some of the content of a page really is an infringement, then the infringing content should be removed, and a note to that effect should be made on the comments page, along with the original source. If the author's permission is obtained later, the text can be restored.

If all of the content of a page is a suspected copyright infringement, then the page should be discussed on the possible copyright infringements page. If, after a week from the date on which the discussion was started, the page still appears to be a copyright infringment, then it may be deleted from the database.

In extreme cases of contributors continuing to post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings, such users may be blocked from editing to protect the project.

Belief of Copyright Infringement
The Louverture Project requests that in the case that the owner or owners of a copyrighted work feel that their work is being illegally infringed upon, they provide a full list of all items which they believe are infringing, along with the reasoning behind the belief that those items are infringing to The Louverture Project's designated agent. In addition, please provide the name of a person, along with their mailing address and e-mail address if possible, for a reply or follow-up letters.

(Portions of this page were copied from the Memory Alpha Copyrights page.)