GuildWiki:Image license guide

Why use license information?
Images are protected under copyright and as such, GWiki abides by the laws. Many images have been uploaded in the past that are a blatant copyright breach and have gone unnoticed. It is easy to just upload copied images from other sources but these images hold GWiki liable as well as it being morally wrong. (someone with more law experience fix this up)

Selecting the right license
First of all you must determine where the image was sourced from.


 * If your image is sourced from another website, you must find their terms and conditions, which is normally found on the very bottom of the page and then select the correct license that they have used. If the image does not cite its terms and conditions, it may be eligible for a Fair-use image tag or a Public domain image tag.
 * If the image is sourced from a guild wars screenshot, you may use the Guild Wars screen capture tag.
 * If the image was created by you or someone that has released it for free use you may use the User-created image.
 * If the image was sourced from a guild wars released tool kit, you may use the Fansite kit image tag.

Fair-use image
Use the template.


 * The source must link to an appropriate source location or correctly named source, with files from the internet, you must directly link to the page the image was found on or directly link to the image.
 * The author of the image must be correctly cited.
 * The reason for the fair use license must be a correct and reasonable.
 * (need to expand on what is fair use and what is not fair use here)

Optionally you may change the option that identifies this as being allowed to be used on user pages, some copyright images do not allow the use of recreational reproduction of their images, these must be marked as "no".

Example:

Fansite kit image
Use the template.

Guild Wars screen capture
Use the template.

Optionally you may change the author from the default "Image uploader" to a user you specify.

Example:

Public domain image
Use the template.


 * (need information on how to id public domain images)

Image copyright violation
Images that can be proven to be a copyright violation, are to be tagged with, these will automatically be categorized at Suspected copyright violations.