Hunterpedia:Copyright policy

This is our official policy on copyright, especially with reference to images.

See also:
 * Licensing
 * Wikia copyrights
 * Wikia:Help:Image copyright tags

Disclaimer
The Hunter × Hunter manga and animes series are the intellectual property of Yoshihiro Togashi, Shueisha, Nippon Animation and Madhouse. This site is not endorsed by, or affiliated with Yoshihiro Togashi, Shueisha, Nippon Animation, Madhouse or their licensors. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Text
Contrary to popular belief, content in a wiki is copyrighted. However, all text is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See Wikia copyrights for details.

Since contributors are required to license their work under Creative Commons, it logically follows that they cannot submit any copyrighted work without appropriate permission from the copyright holder - they are legally incapable of licensing content to which they do not own the rights. Of course, if the copyright holder allows their material to be distributed under the Creative Commons, and has been properly attributed, then this is perfectly fine.

Videos
Videos from YouTube may be embedded here by using   tags. This involves directly streaming the video on the site. These videos must be licensed. The only other licensing options allowed on YouTube is a 'Creative Commons license.' You MUST state who originally uploaded the videos when embedding them.

Images
When contributing images or sound files, you must make sure you copyright license them properly. Below is a guide to what sorts of files are allowed and what license they should be published under.

Free Licenses
The image under a free license can be freely used and have a few or none use conditions. Warning! Simply because you can freely download an image from the net does NOT mean the image has a free license, so be sure before tag an image under a free license! Usually user-created images (like fanarts) have a free license. Some examples are the images used in Hunterpedia's interface.
 * GNU white.svg you are sure the image has a free license but you don't know which one, then use the template Other free.
 * If the image has a GNU free license then use the template GNU. The license GFDL will be selected by default, but you can choose the LGPL or the GPL license by the parameter " ", for example GNU.
 * CC some rights reserved.svg the image has a free Creative Commons license, then use the template CC-BY-SA. To change the version and/or the attribution details by the parameters " " and " ". To remove the condition "BY" or "SA" use the parameter " " and " " respectively (the value of those parameters is indifferent as long it's not null). For more informations see the template's page.
 * If you created the image yourself then you can use the template Self which automatically select the Public Domain license or if you want to change the license to a CC-BY-SA you can do it by choosing the version you want by the parameter " ". See the template's page for more details. Note: if you simply edited a manga/anime picture than you don't have the rights to use this license, use a template from the next section "Not Free Licenses".
 * Art Libre.svg the image is under the Free Art License (FAL or Art Libre) then use the template Free Art.
 * Public domain.svg the image was released in the public domain or its copyright has expired, than use the template PD.

Non-Free Licenses
Almost every image on this wiki is copyrighted and used under fair use. Being this a Hunter × Hunter fandom wiki the majority of image copyrights are held by Yoshihiro Togashi, Shueisha, Nippon Animation and Madhouse. Even if you edit an image taken from the manga or animes, unless you create it ex novo, you don't become the copyright holder. Please include the license in the file's page, for examples:


 * If the image comes from the manga, a cover or other merchandises then add the template Fairuse in the "Licensing" section.
 * Red trademark.svg If the image is a registered logo, such as a company name or a product name, than add the template Logo.
 * If the image comes from the animes or it's a in-game screenshot than add the template Tv-screenshot. This is a variant of the fair use template and it has basically the same meaning.
 * Green copyright.svg If the image is copyrighted, but the copyright holder allowed its use, for example by his trademark policy or by his explicit consensus, then use the template Permission. You can specify the name of the author by the parameter " ".
 * CC-NC.svgCC-ND.svg not free Creative Commons licenses are, regardless the versions, those with the NC (Non commercial) and ND (No Derivate Works) conditions. To add these conditions use the template CC-BY-SA with the " " and/or " " parameter (the value of those parameters is indifferent as long it's not null). For more informations see the template's page.

Others
If you don't know the copyright status of an image then use the template No license. For the images from Wikipedia or another Wikia, you can use the template From Wikimedia and you can also provide the site link by parameter, but remember that you also have to provide the license of the file, so look for the image's copyright status in the original information page.

You can also tags file with LQ if it has a poor quality. For request the deletion of a file add Delete to its page.