Memory Alpha Nova:Copyrights

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Star Trek, Star Trek: Die Nächste Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise sind registierte Markenzeichen von Paramount Pictures Corporation. Memory Alpha steht in keinem Zusammenhang und wurde nicht unterstützt von Paramount Pictures. Memory Alpha ist ausschließlich privat orientiert und ist ausschließlich für nicht-gewerblichen Gebrauch.

Memory Alpha möchte nicht den Anschein erwecken, dass die auf dieser Website präsentierte Arbeit von den eben genannten Rechteinhabern "offiziell" erstellt oder abgesegnet wurden. Memory Alpha wird alle nötigen Schritte unternehmen um jeden missbräuchlichen Gebrauch der eingetragenen Wahrenzeichen zu verhindern. Memory Alpha hat keine Rechte an Star Trek oder damit verbundenen Namen. Bilder auf diesen Seiten sind urheberrechtlich geschützt durch Paramount Pictures (wenn es Bildschirmfotos oder ähnliches sind) oder durch die jeweiligen Ersteller der Bilder (wenn es "Fan-Kunst" ist). Besucher dürfen sich die Bilder herunterladen, wenn es für private Zwecke ist, keine Geschäfte damit betrieben werden und ein geeigneter Vermerk stattfindet.

Bitte beachten sie, dass die original Vermerke aus der englischen Version stammen.

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Text Content

Anyone is free to use the text content of Memory Alpha in websites, articles, or other publications, provided you follow the guidelines of the designated Creative Commons License, which establishes the following requirements:

• you may not use the works for commercial purposes,
• you must acknowledge the authorship of the original article, and
• for any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

If you are simply duplicating the Memory Alpha article, the second and third obligations can be fulfilled by providing a conspicuous direct link back to the Memory Alpha article hosted on this website.

If you create a derivative version by changing or adding content, you need to both acknowledge authorship and provide access to the original copy of the text.

Important: The content of this website does NOT apply to the original works and trademarked names! The Star Trek titles and associated names are the sole property of Paramount Pictures. The administrators of Memory Alpha believe that the operation of this website falls under the definition of "fair use" under United States copyright laws.

See also: Why Memory Alpha doesn't use the GFDL

Images and Other Media

Images that are displayed at Memory Alpha remain the property of their original creators, and are only included on this website for purposes of illustration under fair use guidelines. Unless the original author of the image expressly grants permission, images do not fall under the scope of the Creative Commons License. In all cases, the images must be accompanied by a specific note with:

• credit for the original author of the image or other media file (if the file is a fan-created work) including a link where the original author may be contacted, or
• the original source of the image or other media file (if the file is derived from an official Star Trek work, e.g. screenshots and sound bytes).

You must also include information about:

• whether the file is uploaded to Memory Alpha with express permission of the author, or under fair use rules, and
• the source of the file, being a specific episode, movie, book, other official work, a website, or any other medium.

See also: Memory Alpha:Image use policy.

Contributors' Rights and Obligations

If you contribute material to Memory Alpha, you thereby license it to the public under the Creative Commons License. In order to contribute, you therefore must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either

• you own the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or
• you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under a Creative Commons or similar license, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under Creative Commons License.

In the first case, you retain copyright to your materials. You can later republish and relicense them in any way you like. In the second case, if you incorporate external Creative Commons License materials, as a requirement of the GFDL, you need to acknowledge the authorship and provide a link back to the network location of the original copy.

Using Copyrighted Work from Others

If you use part of a copyrighted work under "fair use," or if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact (along with names and dates). It is our goal to be able to freely redistribute as much of Memory Alpha's material as possible (within the limits of copyright law), so original images and sound files licensed under the Creative Commons License or in the public domain are greatly preferred to copyrighted media files used under fair use.

Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project. If in doubt, write it yourself.

Note that copyright law governs the creative expression of ideas, not the ideas or information themselves. Therefore, it is perfectly legal to read an encyclopedia article or other work, reformulate it in your own words, and submit it to Memory Alpha.

If You Find a Copyright Infringement

It is not the job of rank-and-file members of Memory Alpha to police every article for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue in that page's comments section. Others can then examine the situation and take action if needed. The most helpful piece of information you can provide is a URL or other reference to what you believe may be the source of the text.

Some cases will be false alarms. For example, if the contributor was in fact the author of the text that is published elsewhere under different terms, that does not affect their right to post it here under the Creative Commons License. Also, sometimes you will find text elsewhere on the Web that was copied from Memory Alpha. In both of these cases, it is a good idea to make a note in the talk page to discourage such false alarms in the future.

If some of the content of a page really is an infringement, then the infringing content should be removed, and a note to that effect should be made on the comments page, along with the original source. If the author's permission is obtained later, the text can be restored.

If all of the content of a page is a suspected copyright infringement, then the page should be discussed on the possible copyright infringements page. If, after a week from the date on which the discussion was started, the page still appears to be a copyright infringment, then it may be deleted from the database.

In extreme cases of contributors continuing to post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings, such users may be blocked from editing to protect the project.

Belief of Copyright Infringement

Memory Alpha requests that in the case that the owner or owners of a copyrighted work feel that their work is being illegally infringed upon, they provide a full list of all items which they believe are infringing, along with the reasoning behind the belief that those items are infringing to Memory Alpha's designated agent. In addition, please provide the name of a person, along with their mailing address and e-mail address if possible, for a reply or follow-up letters.