Wikinews:Copyright

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Do not submit copyrighted material to Wikinews, unless it is released under a license compatible with Wikinews'. Copyrighted material will be removed on sight. Please do not copy content from Wikipedia, since Wikipedia's GFDL license is incompatible with Wikinews' license.

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As of September 25, 2005 all material published on Wikinews is licensed the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. This work may be attributed to "Wikinews". All material published prior to September 25, 2005 is in the public domain. Note this may not include other media, like video, images, and audio.

See also

• Fair use
• Wikinews's designated agent under OCILLA
• Category:Image copyright tags
• Announcement of license change and meta:Wikinews/License