BoyWiki:Fair use policy

• BoyWiki reserves the right to limit Fair use.

Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test.

The term "fair use" originated in the United States. A similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright.

Fair use is one of the traditional safety valves intended to balance the public's interest in open access with the property interests of copyright holders.

BoyWiki policy on Fair use

In all instances, BoyWiki staff request that you make an attempt to contact the copyright holder of any media for permission to use it on BoyWiki before submitting it for upload.

Disallowed material

• All images and other media including movie posters, movie stills, DVD covers, etc... originating from major motion picture studios without the express written consent of the copyright holder. (Independent filmmakers are much more likely to grant permission)

• Entries, articles, and links to YouTube videos of non-celebrities under the age of 18.

Allowed material

• All media made freely redistributable under GNU Free Documentation License, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License , or other similar license.

• All legal media where the copyright holder has given permission to BoyWiki for its use.

• All media where the copyright has expired.

• All media that you have produced yourself and for which you are the copyright holder.

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