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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.

Do not submit copyrighted material to Wikinews, unless it is released under a license compatible with Wikinews'. Copyrighted material will be removed on sight. Text from all other Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia for example) may not be disseminated on Wikinews because the licensing terms are incompatible with the Wikinews license.

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