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To the Wikipedia OTRS team...
I hereby affirm that I,________________________________________ (name here),
am sole owner of the exclusive copyright of _________________________________________ (give the URL) website.
I have asked Wikipedia User:__________________________
to use the text on the Wikipedia page:____________________________________________
To clarify, I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I understand that the content may or may not be permanently used on a Wikimedia project.
I know that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed as explained in the license. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement.
[SENDER'S NAME AND DETAILS (to allow future verification of authenticity)]______________________________________________
[SENDER'S AUTHORITY (Are you the copyright-holder, director, appointed representative of, etc.)]______________________________________________
[DATE]______________________________________________
[SENDER'S EMAIL ADDRESS]______________________________________________
The license granted is dual: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and GNU Free Documentation license.
Important: Send this email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org from the contact email address on the website, or one that occurs on the website that will prove your connection to it (Security reasons).
A {{OTRS pending}} tag must be put on the Talk: page!(Hint!)
Further information
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)
Wikipedia is paranoid about preventing copyright violations. If you wish to submit previously published work to Wikipedia, chances are that it will be marked as a potential infringement of copyright, and then zapped. Stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:
- Make a copyright statement permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) on the original web site; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template above or one at WP:CONSENT.
- CC-BY-SA Snippet
This is the code to paste into your website:
- <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
