All The Tropes:Copyrights: Difference between revisions

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Please note that there is no amount of meaningful text "too small" to qualify as copyright violation. If it can be identified as originating from TV Tropes, it is a violation. Yes, this means something as small as replacing an image caption with one from TV Tropes counts. If there is any doubt or uncertainty about the attribution of a change, we will ''automatically'' err on the side of caution, to protect All The Tropes from legal liability.
 
Finally, be aware that there is ''no excuse'' for plagiarism/copyright violation. Saying "I didn't know", "I didn't mean it", "I don't remember doing that" or the incredibly unlikely "I did it by accident" will ''not'' absolve you of your responsibility for violating the law and putting the wiki at risk, ''especially'' if it's not your first offense. The only thing such a claim will net you is a roll of the eyes from whichever administrator is handling your violation.<ref>We've actually had former users whose entire defense boiled down to "I'm too immature, stupid and/or ignorant to be held responsible for my past and future acts of copyright violation". To which our response was, "Then you are too immature, stupid and/or ignorant to allow on the wiki."</ref>
 
== I want to reuse something from All The Tropes==
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== Can I copy something from this site to TV Tropes? ==
 
No, you cannot. They use a Creative Commons license with a Non-Commercial clause added, and so the two licenses are completely incompatible. Distributing CC-BY-SA content as CC-BY-NC-SA content is copyright infringement, unless the permission of all previous editors was given for that page. You can feel free to ask those editors, though. Note, your OWN''own'' edits only are able to used on both sites, but it is recommended you make that clear in the edit reasons there (as you would here if reposting your own work from TV Tropes) you are porting your own work, as under Creative Commons you may resubmit your own work under whatever license you deem fit, but not anyone else's without permission.
 
Do note failure to do so can be considered "self-plagiarism", and can cause copyright disputes if you do not make clear you are submitting work from sites with different copyright licenses as the same edits to one or more sites. To avoid this, use edit reasons on each to make clear your intentions.