FalloutWiki:Copyrights

The content of the Independent Fallout Wiki abides by the following licenses.

Overview
Everything created by official parties for the Fallout franchise are registered trademarks of ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks and its associates. The Independent Fallout Wiki is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by ZeniMax Media or Bethesda Softworks. The Independent Fallout Wiki offers no suggestion that the content presented on this site is official or produced or sanctioned by the owner of the aforementioned trademarks.

The Independent Fallout Wiki will take all steps necessary to ensure that any usage of trademarked items in no way confuses the audience of this site as to its origin. The Independent Fallout Wiki makes no claim to own Fallout or any of the names related to it. Images that are displayed on this site are copyrighted to Zenimax/Bethesda in the case of screenshots and similar pictures or to the creator of the image for fan-made artwork.

Page text
All contributions to the Independent Fallout Wiki are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. By editing the wiki, users consent to having their written work distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. The text content of the Independent Fallout Wiki may be used in websites, articles, or other publications provided that they adhere to the following guidelines:
 * 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 duplicating the Independent Fallout Wiki article, the obligations can be fulfilled by providing a conspicuous direct link back to the Independent Fallout Wiki article hosted on this website. If you create a derivative version by changing or adding content, you need to both acknowledge authorship and provide attribution as stated above.

Images and other media
Images that are displayed on the Independent Fallout Wiki remain the property of their original copyright holder and are only included on this website for purposes of illustration under fair use guidelines. Unless the author and rights holder of an image expressively licenses it, images do not fall under the scope of the Creative Commons license. In all cases, images uploaded to our database must be accompanied by a specific note with:
 * The original source of the image or other media file if the file is derived from an official Fallout work, or
 * Credit to the original author of the image or other media file if the file is an original fan-created work including a link where the author may be contacted.

You must also include information about:
 * The source of the file, being a specific episode, book, other official work, a website, or any other medium, and
 * Whether the file is uploaded to the Independent Fallout Wiki with expressed permission of the original author and rights holder, or under fair use rules.

The rights to fair use files belong to the copyright holder of the game or other media, not the person who captured or recorded the file.

Copyrighted works
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 the Independent Fallout Wiki'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 preferred to copyrighted media files used under fair use. Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. If in doubt, write it yourself.