UCNISS/Sport Wiki Academy/Copyright licenses

When dealing with wikis and other content related to your sport organization on the web, always consider the copyright implications. Ask yourself:


 * Who owns the content I post?
 * Who has a right to repost content I share?
 * Who has a right to modify, remix or make derivatives of content I publish?

Different wikis and websites have different policies regarding copyright. You want to make sure that the content you share complies with copyright policies inside your sport organization.

What are free licenses?
The following table was created on Freedom Defined and gives an idea as to what several free licenses allow:

What copyright does Wikipedia use?
Wikipedia uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License copyright. This means that any contributions you make to Wikipedia, others are allowed to: Anyone doing that must do so under the following conditions:
 * to Share—to copy, distribute and transmit the work, and
 * to Remix—to adapt the work
 * Attribution—You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work.)
 * Share Alike—If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license.