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Important note: ShoutWiki does not own copyright on orig article texts or illustrations. It is therefore pointless to email their contact addresses asking for permission to reproduce articles or images, even if rules at your company, school, or organization mandate that you ask web site operators before copying their content.

Permission to reproduce and modify text on orig has already been granted to anyone anywhere by the authors of individual articles as long as such reproduction and modification complies with licensing terms. Images may or may not permit reuse and modification; the conditions for reproduction of each image should be individually checked. The only exceptions are those cases in which editors have violated orig policy by uploading copyrighted material without authorization, or with copyright licensing terms which are incompatible with those orig authors have applied to the rest of orig content. While such material is present on orig (before it is detected and removed), it will be a copyright violation to copy it. For permission to use it, one must contact the owner of the copyright of the text or illustration in question; often, but not always, this will be the original author.

If you wish to reuse content from orig, you should read the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

The text of orig is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by its editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses. Most of its text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA). Every image has a description page that indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

The licenses orig uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely. Its content can be copied, modified, and redistributed if and only if the copied version is made available on the same terms to others and acknowledgment of the authors of the article used is included (a link back to the article is generally thought to satisfy the attribution requirement; see below for more details). Copied content will therefore remain free under an appropriate license and can continue to be used by anyone subject to certain restrictions, most of which aim to ensure that freedom. This principle is known as copyleft in contrast to typical copyright licenses.

To this end,

The English text of the CC BY-SA license is the only legally binding restriction between authors and users of orig content.