Template talk:PD

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Can we really use public domain for work originally submitted to Wikia? Did you check Wikia doesn't itself claim copyright to such work, but grants everybody a creative-commons style license? Tjr 11:06, July 3, 2010 (UTC)

I believe that only applies to the text, rather than images. I'd argue if it allows submitting pretty much any images at all it can't have that clause, and it allows porting them over from other sites. It has a stock template for "own work" that doesn't appear to give it any license at all (presumably it's just giving the site permission to use it, and nothing else). I doubt they have any sort of thing like that other than for the text itself (where it's absolutely required to be a free license, else the whole wiki will break down). They'd get a whoooooole lot of angry letters if they did ("I'll put it under whatever license I want, sucka! You don't own me!"). Compared to just permission, ("Oh, hey, well, that makes sense I guess.")

And if you're wondering, no. I don't have anything to cite. I'm just going with my gut feeling here until I do (gonna look into it a little later).

...and also it doesn't really matter much, besides. I'll bet I'm going to be the only person that ever seriously uses it, and it beats the heck out of a red link popping up if they happen to select it (even if only accidentally). And as far as my images go, well, worst comes to worst I can just change it. I just picked it as the "Do whatever the crap you want" license. And "publish" is so subjective besides ("Oh! Yeah, I totally licensed it into the public domain already. I did it on a McDonald's bathroom stall." / Lawyer: "If that's true, then what on earth did you write with?" / "You don't wanna know.") Feagradze 15:20, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central:Licensing
Freely licensed or public domain images are strongly preferred on Wikia.

Non-text media on Wikia should not be assumed to be available under the same license as the text. Please view the media description page for details about the license of any specific media file.

If you are uploading files to Wikia, you should cite the source of the file, attribute the authors, and note any copyright information, where applicable. Individual communities may elaborate upon and refine requirements for file uploads.

Well, that's not very helpful at all. It's a start. If it encourages public domain works, though, it's hard to believe there'd be a requirement that new media be any form of CC. Feagradze 16:11, July 5, 2010 (UTC)