Copyright law wikipedia

  • How is Wikipedia licensed?

    Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.

    1. International License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts)

  • Wikimedia Foundation has the rights to the trademarked Wikipedia and Wikimedia logo.
    Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify Wikipedia's text under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.
    1. Unported License and, unless otherwise noted, the GNU Free Documentation License
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work,  Creative workFair useBerne ConventionAuthors' rights
Copyright law recognizes the right of an author based on whether the work actually is an original creation, rather than based on whether it is unique; two authors may own copyright on two substantially identical works, if it is determined that the duplication was coincidental, and neither was copied from the other.

Are Wikipedia articles copyright protected?

Yes, all Wikipedia content is copyrighted.
The so-called Creative Commons “licence” has no legal validity whatsoever in most jurisdictions. and is an eyewash to deceive good natured folk into contributing to Wikipedia.

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What are the copyright laws in general?

The Law.
Congress enacted the federal Copyright Act to protect works of authorship.
The Act gives the owner of a copyright the exclusive right to do and authorize others to do certain things in regard to a copyrighted work, including:

  • make copies
  • distribute the work
  • display or perform the work publicly
  • and create derivative works.
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    What is meant by copyright?

    What Is Copyright.
    A copyright is a collection of rights that automatically vest to someone who creates an original work of authorship like a literary work, song, movie or software.
    These rights include:

  • the right to reproduce the work
  • to prepare derivative works
  • to distribute copies
  • and to perform and display the work publicly.

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