Copyright

Copyright is an important aspect of Greyhawk Online, and the Great Library of Greyhawk wiki. You hold some of the rights to the text you contribute to the site, and it's important to understand fair use of media from your favorite fandoms.

Your Copyright on Wikis

When you contribute to the Great Library of Greyhawk wiki, you retain the copyright to your edits, although you agree to license them under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA license.  This means that although you are the holder of the copyright, you have given blanket and irrevocable permission to the world at large to reuse, remix, and transform your work as long as you are attributed as the author, and it is not used for commercial purposes. Please note that images are not automatically released under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

You may find that an outside source is using content from this wiki. This is acceptable under the Creative Commons license as long as they provide proper attribution on every article and link back to your wiki. There's an example of how to provide proper attribution in our Terms of Use here.

Infringement

If you believe this wiki has violated your copyright, the best first step is to approach a Bureaucrat or a similarly situated User (Administrator or Interface Administrator) here and explain the attribution requirement to them. Often, the failure to attribute is an oversight, and an admin will fix it immediately by adding attribution.

If you would rather contact the site administrator directly, you may send an email to: "Admin @ greyhawkonlne .com" (without the spaces).

Adding copyrighted content to this wiki

The community may want to include copyrighted material from other sources on the wiki. If the content added to the wiki qualifies under the WotC Fan Content Policy, there is no difficulty.

Otherwise, this is only allowed under one or more of the following conditions:

1. Your use of the material will be likely to qualify as fair use or similar exception. Four factors are considered by courts to determine whether an item's usage counts as fair use:
   • Purpose of the use
   • Nature of the copyrighted work
   • Amount and substantiality of copyrighted work used compared to the work as a whole
   • Potential market for the copyrighted work
2. You have the permission of the copyright holder to use it on GHO.
3. The material you want to use is licensed under a Creative Commons or other open license that permits free reuse.
4. The material is in the public domain.
5. ​ You have created the material yourself.

If your use of content does not fall under one of these broad categories, it likely infringes someone's copyright. It is therefore against our Terms of Use to submit that material. We recommend using content that has a compatible license or is released to the public domain whenever possible.