Copyrights

The FiveFold Universe; and all logos, characters, artwork, stories, information, names, and other elements associated thereto, including but not limited to the The Starborn Heir, are the sole and exclusive property of D.J. Bodden.

FiveFold Universe will take all steps necessary to ensure that any usage of trademarked items in no way confuses the audience of this site as to its origin. Images that are displayed on this site are copyrighted to D.J. Bodden or another partner of Shadow Alley Press, or to the creator of the image. Visitors may download any pictures displayed on this site for personal use, as long as they are not used for profit, and proper credit is given.

Content
The license FFU Wiki uses grants free access to our content in the same sense as free software is licensed with restriction. That is to say, FiveFold Universe Wiki content cannot be modified, transformed or redistributed for profit. Shared content grants the same freedoms to others and must acknowledge the authors of the FiveFold Universe Wiki article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). FiveFold Universe Wiki articles will remain free forever and can be enjoyed by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.

To fulfill the above goals, the text contained in the FiveFold Universe Wiki is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license (“CC-BY-NC-ND”). A human-readable summary of this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode.

The text of the CC-BY-NC-ND license is the only legally binding document; what follows is our interpretation of the CC-BY-NC-ND license: the rights and obligations of users and contributors.

IMPORTANT: The original content on this FiveFold Universe Wiki was provided by D.J. Bodden and the FiveFold Universe.

If you want to use FiveFold Universe Wiki materials in your own articles/web sites or other not for profit publications, you can do so, but you have to follow the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND. If you are simply duplicating a FiveFold Universe Wiki article, you simply need to properly attribute the work and note that it is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND. One way to attribute the work is to provide a conspicuous hyperlink back to the FiveFold Unvierse Wiki article (or the URL of the article if in print form), however FiveFold Universe Wiki does not guarantee that we will retain the article (and with it, the authorship history), so you may want to copy this list of authors from the page history.

If you create a version by adding content, this entails the following:


 * your materials in turn have to be licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND, and
 * you must acknowledge the authorship of the article, and
 * you must acknowledge that you have not modified it.

As stated above, the second requirement can be fulfilled with a hyperlink back the the article on FiveFold Universe Wiki (or the URL if in print form), but since retention of the page history is not guaranteed, you are encouraged to provide the list of authors yourself.

Example notice
An example notice, for an article that uses the FiveFold Universe Wiki article Zack Lancestrom might read as follows:


 * This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivs 3.0 Unported license. It uses material from the FiveFold Universe article "Zack Lancestrom."

("Zack Lancestrom" and the FiveFold Universe Wiki URL must of course be substituted accordingly.)

Alternatively you can distribute your copy of "Zack Lancestrom" along with a hyperlink to, the URL of, or a copy of the CC-BY-NC-ND and a list of the authors.

Fair use materials and special requirements
All original FiveFold Universe Wiki text is distributed under the CC-BY-NC-ND. FiveFold Universe Wiki articles include images, sounds, or text quotes used under the U.S. Copyright law. As FiveFold Universe Wiki intends to be a comprehensive encyclopedia of FiveFold Universe canon, most images used on FiveFold Universe Wiki will be non-free. In rare instances when non-official images are used, it is preferred that these be obtained under the most free (libre) license (such as the CC-BY-SA or public domain) practical.

The material used should be identified as from an external source (on the image description page, or history page, as appropriate). As "fair use" is specific to the use that you contemplate it is best if your describe the fair use rationale for such specific use either in hidden text in the article or on the image description page. Remember what is fair use for FiveFold Universe Wiki may not be considered a fair use for your intended use of the content in another context.

Images and articles included on the FiveFold Universe wiki may be used and shared for personal use, but may not be replicated, altered, or transformed in any form for commercial use.

Contributors' rights and obligations
If you contribute material to FiveFold Universe Wiki, you thereby license it to the public under the CC-BY-SA. 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 CC-BY-SA, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under CC-BY-SA.

In the first case, you retain copyright to your materials. You can later republish and re-license them in any way you like. However, you can never retract the CC-BY-SA license for the versions you placed here: that material will remain under CC-BY-SA forever. In the second case, if you incorporate external CC-BY-SA materials, as a requirement of the CC-BY-SA, you must acknowledge the authorship of the material.

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). Original images and sound files licensed under the CC-BY-SA or in the public domain are greatly preferred to copyrighted media files used under fair use. See Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission for a form letter asking a copyright holder to grant us a license to use their work under terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND.

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 FiveFold Universe Wiki. (See plagiarism and fair use for discussions of how much reformulation is necessary in a general context.)

Linking to copyrighted works
Linking to copyrighted works is usually not a problem, as long as you have made a reasonable effort to determine that the page in question is not violating someone else's copyright. If it is, please do not link to the page. Whether such a link is contributory infringement is currently being debated in the courts, but in any case, linking to a site that illegally distributes someone else's work sheds a bad light on us.

If you find a copyright infringement
It is not the job of the FiveFold Universe Wiki to police every article for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue on that page's talk page. 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.

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 talk 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 listed on Forum:Administrators' noticeboard and the content of the article replaced by the standard notice which you can find there. If, after a week, the page still appears to be a copyright infringement, then it may be deleted following the procedures on the votes page.

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

If you are the owner of FiveFold Universe Wiki-hosted content being used without your permission
If you are the owner of content that is being used on FiveFold Universe Wiki without your permission, you may request the page be immediately removed. Leave a note explaining the situation contact an administrator directly. If you feel the situation is serious enough to warrant it, you may also contact our host's Designated agent to have it permanently removed, but it may take up to a week for the page to be deleted that way (you may also blank the page but the text will still be in the page history). In any case, 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, and we will, of course, need some evidence to support your claim of ownership.

This page is a derivative work from Wikipedia:Copyrights.