Patholines:Copyright: Difference between revisions

All content in Patholines is open access. Everything in Patholines is by default published under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0)] license, meaning that those reusing the content must mentioning the names or organizations of the creators. Patholines also accepts works released into the Public Domain, that is, without any restrictions. The status of each image is seen on their description pages (found by clicking the image).

==Creative Commons Attribution 4.0==

For all Patholines material, including images, you are free to:

*'''Attribution''' — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Taking [[X-ray of the abdomen and pelvis]] as example, the wording of such attribution may be as follows, or variants thereof:

::*{{cite web|url=https://Patholines.org/X-ray_of_the_abdomen_and_pelvis|title=X-ray of the abdomen and pelvis|date={{{{{|safesubst:}}}#time:j F Y}}|author=Mikael Häggström}} From [https://Patholines.org Patholines.org]

::*Mikael Häggström, [https://Patholines.org/Main Patholines.org]

:However, attribution is not legally required if only using Public Domain images from Patholines articles.

Licensing of content under CC-BY without further restrictions allows it to be used by almost all medical journals, since this is the most common licensing of at least open access journals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doaj.org/search#.XBqMAVVKj0N|website=Directory of Open Access Journals|title=Search by Journal license|accessdate=2018-12-19}}</ref>

For all publications, ''authors'' retain copyright (but allow sharing and reuse as per the license). Authors may thereby choose at a later time to use a less restrictive license, such as making a CC-BY work Public Domain.

 

For any material within a work that is not available under a license permitted in Patholines, authors must gain written consent from the copyright holder(s) to publish the work under a permitted license.

===Non-copyrightable works===

Medical images (including radiographs, CT images etc) cannot be copyrightable if produced in certain countries, including the United States, see [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_of_Medical_Imaging Wikilegal/Copyright of Medical Imaging]. Therefore, it is acceptable to import medical images created in the United States to Patholines without permission from the creator, and should be tagged as {{tl|PD-US-Medical imaging}}, which will give the following information:

 

All content in Patholines can be copied to Wikipedia as long as appropriate attribution is made. The other way around, Wikipedia images (as well as images from [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons]) that have a compatible license can be used in Patholines. However, because the text in Wikipedia articles is licensed under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License a Attribution + ShareAlike license], Wikipedia text cannot be directly copied to Patholines. Similarly, Wikipedia images released under a ShareAlike license can only be used with written permission from the author to have it published under CC BY or CC0. A response by private email is generally sufficient for this purpose. It is even more beneficial if the author agrees to change the license of the work at Wikipedia, such as changing the licensing template to {{tl|Cc-by-4.0}} on image description pages. If a more rigorous procedure is warranted, the author may store a permission note in the release generator of Wikimedia: https://tools.wmflabs.org/relgen/  

 

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