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{{TOC left}}All work submitted to this Wiki is licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license] (CC-BY-SA) and, unless otherwise specified, the [[Creatures Wiki:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]. The ''copyright'' of work submitted to this Wiki remains with the copyright holder - which, if you wrote it, will be you. Submitting your work does not restrict what you can do with it; it just permits us to do certain things with it as well.
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All work submitted to this Wiki is licensed under the [[Creatures Wiki:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]. The ''copyright'' of work submitted to this Wiki remains with the copyright owner - which will in most cases be you. Submitting such work does not restrict what you can do with it yourself. You may submit the work of others ''if'' it is declared by them to be in the Public Domain (in which case there is no copyright), or freely licensed under a similar license to the GFDL. Just copying from a website where there is no indication that the work is under such a license is ''not'' acceptable, and such work will be removed at the request of the copyright holder.
  
By submitting your work, you grant permission to distribute it under the terms of the CC-BY-SA and the GFDL, and you accept that others may modify and distribute your work under the same terms. That means they may change what articles say, and make copies of our articles on other sites, as long as they license such copies under the CC-BY-SA and/or GFDL.
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By submitting your work, you grant the Wiki permission to distribute it under the terms of the GFDL, and you accept that others may edit, modify and distribute your work under the terms of the License. That means that they may change what articles say, and that they may make copies of Wiki articles on other sites, as long as they license such articles under the GFDL so that others may make their own copies.
  
:'''Note that you cannot retract this license'''. You can, of course, edit an article to alter or remove your work if you do not want it there anymore, but you cannot stop someone reinstating it. Please think carefully about whether you want to write something on the wiki before you do so.
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:'''Note that you cannot retract this license'''. You can, of course, edit an article to alter or remove your work if you do not want it there anymore, but you cannot stop someone reinstating it; therefore, you should think carefully about whether you want to write something on the wiki before you do so. :-)
  
==Submitting the work of others==
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See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights Wikipedia Copyrights page] for more information on how this license applies to the content of the wiki, in particular the section on '''how to use''' copies of the Wiki. If in doubt, or if you find your work is here without your permission, please contact the [[Project:Administrators|Wiki admin team]].
You may submit the work of others ''if'' they say it is in the [[Wikipedia:Public domain|public domain]], or freely licensed under the CC-BY-SA, or a [http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses compatible license] (the GFDL alone is '''not''' a compatible license). Just copying from a website with no indication that the work is under such a license is ''not'' acceptable; such work is liable to removal. This applies to written works, visual art and all other forms of creative expression.
 
  
You must comply with any attribution requirements for the original work. If you submit work that is under the CC-BY-SA but ''not'' the GFDL, please note this in the page footer, edit summary or on the talk page.
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To people wishing to distribute the content of this Wiki:
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:'''This Wiki is Copyright © to its contributors. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the [[Creatures Wiki:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]], Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.'''
  
=== Corporate artwork ===
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You should read the above license and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Users.27_rights_and_obligations rights and obligations] section of Wikipedia (which explains this in much more detail) carefully before copying work. If you modify the content of the articles, the license requires you to link back to the article in this Wiki so that users can see the original. In any case, you must license your copy of our work under the GFDL so that others can copy it and it remains free.
There is '''one exception''' to the above - artwork from [[Cyberlife]]/[[Creatures Labs]]/[[Gameware]]. Permission to use such images from them on fan sites has been granted by the company. However, that does not mean that they can be taken from here and used on non-fan sites. Gameware Development, Creature Labs, CyberLife, Creatures, Creatures Adventures and Creatures Playground are registered trademarks of Gameware Development Ltd.. The Gameware Development, Creatures, Creatures 2, Creatures 3, Creatures Adventures, Creatures Playground, and Docking Station logos are trademarks of Gameware Development Ltd. in the United Kingdom and other countries.
 
  
==Redistribution of content==
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Having read the above, [http://creatures.wikicities.com/dbdumps/cur_table.sql.bz2 click here to download the current copy of the wiki database].
 
 
To people wishing to distribute the content of this Wiki (excluding the above images):
 
:'''This Wiki is Copyright © to its contributors. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license], using the work's URL as attribution; and, unless otherwise specified, under the terms of the [[Creatures Wiki:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]], Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.'''
 
 
 
You should read the above license and the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Copyrights#Users' rights and obligations|rights and obligations]] section of Wikipedia (which explains this in much more detail) carefully before copying work. The CC-BY-SA requires you to link back to our article. If you use the GFDL, you must link back if you modify the work, and you must also list the most prominent original authors. In any case, you '''must''' license your copy under the CC-BY-SA and/or the GFDL — and give a public indication of this license — so that it remains free for others others to copy and modify.
 
 
 
Having read the above, feel free to [[Special:Export|export an article]].
 

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