Questions tagged [copyright]
For questions about the copyrights of the Stack Exchange sites themselves or about the posting of copyrighted material by users.
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What aspects of Stack Exchange are copyrighted in the case of a fork?
Here's a hypothetical scenario.
Say that the Stack Exchange management does something that the community thinks is so counter to their core values, that a large majority decides to set up a new ...
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I want to use content from a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange question and answer. How do I comply with the Attribution requirements?
One of the requirements of the CC BY-SA license used for content on the Network is Attribution. What does proper attribution look like for questions and answers found on the Network?
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YouTube Channels Stealing SE Network Content
Although this has been reported before (1, 2), and the current canonical guidance for how to approach sites or scrapers copying SE content is also available, I wanted to share information that I have ...
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Someone copy-pasted my Database Administrators Stack Exchange site question on YouTube [duplicate]
I asked a question on the Database Administrators Stack Exchange site a few days back:
MySQL 8 query doesn't prefer index with higher cardinality
Today, I randomly found this video on YouTube.
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Questions and answers containing copyrighted images
What is the official policy on questions and answers with embedded copyrighted photos? Does the fair use doctrine apply? Is there a difference between high-res "commercial" photos (like &...
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Enhancement Request: Attribution Block Markdown
Over at Worldbuilding we constantly bring images and quotes in from outside sources. I suspect other Stacks do that a lot, too. When it comes to images, charts, and graphs, we want people to properly ...
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How is removing the user's name from their post compatible with copyright? [duplicate]
So it was explained to me that if a user is removed, regardless of the Stack Exchange site, the name will also be removed from all of their posts. It is completely unimportant at this point why the ...
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Posts deleted as result of a DMCA Takedown Request still visible via suggested edits
I got access to this question which got taken down due to a DMCA request.
screenshot for <10k users:
Now, in the timeline, we can see a suggested edit:
screenshot for <10k users:
If we click ...
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Are Stack Exchange blog articles also under Creative Common license?
Recently I stumbled on the site of an IT company that replicated the entire article "Do large language models know what they are talking about?" with attribution.
For basic content on the ...
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Who is the original artist of the comic on the blog post "Do large language models know what they are talking about?"
The blog post Do large language models know what they are talking about? has the comic:
A: It is time to learn about magic circles.
B: ugh, why is it so complex? ... What does this symbol in the ...
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Will SE tell us if they sell our content?
So, the CEO of Stack Exchange has been quoted in a news article saying that they plan to sell the content of the SE network to large companies training neural networks like the one used for ChatGPT. ...
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Please update /help/referencing on all sites to reflect the Stack Exchange policy that machine-generated text requires attribution
On December 12, 2022, animuson clarified that the rules surrounding plagarism on the Stack Exchange Network apply to all content not created by the poster, even if the work is otherwise not ...
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Who owns the copyright of translation files for internationalized sites?
The translation work of international sites is based on the translation file published in Transifex.
Many people have contributed to the translation of these files.
(Currently working via Traducir)
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This YouTube channel is creating videos based on SO questions. Is this ok? [duplicate]
Check out this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZL4eLD7a30Fa8QI-sRi_g/videos
Each of these videos shows a woman presenting a problem. It's the same generic opening and closing each time ...
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How to give attribution when using the same code on multiple webpages [closed]
I am very new to the Stack Overflow community. I noticed that there are several excellent answers here that can help me to build a website. I am a little bit aware of the License CC BY-SA 4.0 applied ...
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