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This policy covers copyright and licensing | This policy covers copyright and licensing on RetroTechCollection: the text contributors write, the photographs and drawings they make, and material by other people that is uploaded or quoted here, such as manuals, schematics and photographs. | ||
== | == Your own work == | ||
Text you write on the wiki, and photographs, drawings and diagrams you make yourself, are released under the licences set out in section 4.1 of the [[RetroTechCollection:Terms of Use|Terms of Use]]: the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) 1.3 or later. Anyone may reuse it on those terms. | |||
When you upload your own photograph or drawing, say on the file page that it is your own work and give the licence. | |||
== | == Material by other people == | ||
Copyrighted material may be used and uploaded on RetroTechCollection, including complete service manuals, schematics, datasheets, photographs and excerpts, as long as it is cited. Citing it means stating: | |||
* the source: where the copy came from, such as a URL and the date it was retrieved, a publication, or who scanned or photographed it | |||
* | * the author or publisher | ||
* | * the copyright holder, or "copyright holder unknown" where it cannot be established | ||
* | |||
Give these on the file page of every upload, and in the article wherever the material is used, as a reference. See [[RetroTechCollection:Citing sources]]. | |||
'' | Material by other people stays under its owner's copyright. It is not covered by the licences for contributors' own work, and RetroTechCollection claims no rights in it. | ||
Public domain and freely licensed material (Creative Commons, GFDL, MIT, BSD and similar) is cited in the same way, and its file page gives the licence. Follow the licence's own attribution terms. | |||
=== File pages === | |||
Every file page says what the file is, where it came from, who made it, and its licence or copyright holder: | |||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
== Summary == | |||
Source | Apple Computer, Macintosh Plus Service Source, 1995 edition. | ||
== Source == | |||
Scanned by the uploader from a printed copy. | |||
== | == Author == | ||
Apple Computer, Inc. | |||
== Licence == | |||
Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. | |||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
For your own photograph: | |||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
Commodore 64C motherboard (ASSY 250469). | |||
== Source == | == Source == | ||
Own photograph, May 2025. | Own photograph, May 2025. | ||
== | == Author == | ||
[[User:YourUsername]] | |||
== Licence == | |||
[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0] | |||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
[[Help:Uploading service manuals]] covers the page each hosted manual also gets. | |||
=== Quoting text === | |||
Article text is normally written in your own words. When you copy text from a source, such as a procedure or a table from a manual, mark it as a quotation or say that it is reproduced from the source, and cite it. | |||
== | === Diagrams you redraw or annotate === | ||
Credit the original (source, author or publisher, copyright holder) and say which parts are your additions. | |||
=== Trademarks and logos === | |||
Trademarks such as "Commodore", "Atari" and "Sega" belong to their owners. Use them to identify the subject of a page. Logos may be used to identify a manufacturer or product in infoboxes and on category pages, cited like any other image. | |||
=== Wikimedia Commons === | |||
Files on Wikimedia Commons can be used on this wiki directly by name, without uploading them again. Commons accepts only freely licensed files, so upload copyrighted manuals and photographs here instead. | |||
== | === Software === | ||
The upload form accepts documents, images, audio and video. It does not accept ROM images, disk images or program files. | |||
== | == Removal requests == | ||
If you | If you hold the copyright in material on RetroTechCollection and want it removed, or its credit corrected: | ||
# | # Email [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]] or open a ticket on the [https://forum.retrotechcollection.com/tickets/ RTC Forum]. | ||
# | # Give the page or file name, identify the work and your right in it, and give your contact details. | ||
The material will be removed, or the credit corrected if that is what you ask for. [[RetroTechCollection:Copyright violations]] gives the full procedure and timings. | |||
== | == Further reading == | ||
* [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licences overview] | * [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licences overview] | ||
* [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing Wikimedia Commons licensing] | * [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing Wikimedia Commons licensing] | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[RetroTechCollection:Copyright violations]] | |||
* [[RetroTechCollection:Service manual reproduction]] | |||
* [[RetroTechCollection:Terms of Use]] | |||
[[Category:RetroTechCollection policies]] | [[Category:RetroTechCollection policies]] | ||
[[Category:Copyright and legal issues]] | [[Category:Copyright and legal issues]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:32, 1 October 2026
This policy covers copyright and licensing on RetroTechCollection: the text contributors write, the photographs and drawings they make, and material by other people that is uploaded or quoted here, such as manuals, schematics and photographs.
Your own work
[edit source]Text you write on the wiki, and photographs, drawings and diagrams you make yourself, are released under the licences set out in section 4.1 of the Terms of Use: the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) 1.3 or later. Anyone may reuse it on those terms.
When you upload your own photograph or drawing, say on the file page that it is your own work and give the licence.
Material by other people
[edit source]Copyrighted material may be used and uploaded on RetroTechCollection, including complete service manuals, schematics, datasheets, photographs and excerpts, as long as it is cited. Citing it means stating:
- the source: where the copy came from, such as a URL and the date it was retrieved, a publication, or who scanned or photographed it
- the author or publisher
- the copyright holder, or "copyright holder unknown" where it cannot be established
Give these on the file page of every upload, and in the article wherever the material is used, as a reference. See RetroTechCollection:Citing sources.
Material by other people stays under its owner's copyright. It is not covered by the licences for contributors' own work, and RetroTechCollection claims no rights in it.
Public domain and freely licensed material (Creative Commons, GFDL, MIT, BSD and similar) is cited in the same way, and its file page gives the licence. Follow the licence's own attribution terms.
File pages
[edit source]Every file page says what the file is, where it came from, who made it, and its licence or copyright holder:
== Summary == Apple Computer, Macintosh Plus Service Source, 1995 edition. == Source == Scanned by the uploader from a printed copy. == Author == Apple Computer, Inc. == Licence == Copyright Apple Computer, Inc.
For your own photograph:
== Summary == Commodore 64C motherboard (ASSY 250469). == Source == Own photograph, May 2025. == Author == [[User:YourUsername]] == Licence == [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0]
Help:Uploading service manuals covers the page each hosted manual also gets.
Quoting text
[edit source]Article text is normally written in your own words. When you copy text from a source, such as a procedure or a table from a manual, mark it as a quotation or say that it is reproduced from the source, and cite it.
Diagrams you redraw or annotate
[edit source]Credit the original (source, author or publisher, copyright holder) and say which parts are your additions.
Trademarks and logos
[edit source]Trademarks such as "Commodore", "Atari" and "Sega" belong to their owners. Use them to identify the subject of a page. Logos may be used to identify a manufacturer or product in infoboxes and on category pages, cited like any other image.
Wikimedia Commons
[edit source]Files on Wikimedia Commons can be used on this wiki directly by name, without uploading them again. Commons accepts only freely licensed files, so upload copyrighted manuals and photographs here instead.
Software
[edit source]The upload form accepts documents, images, audio and video. It does not accept ROM images, disk images or program files.
Removal requests
[edit source]If you hold the copyright in material on RetroTechCollection and want it removed, or its credit corrected:
- Email [email protected] or open a ticket on the RTC Forum.
- Give the page or file name, identify the work and your right in it, and give your contact details.
The material will be removed, or the credit corrected if that is what you ask for. RetroTechCollection:Copyright violations gives the full procedure and timings.