User talk:Lcc234

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This is my first entry...

YMCA
It's OK to quote (sparingly) from websites if you make it clear that it's a quote; for example:


 * As stated on the YMCA website About the YMCA, "YMCAs are the largest providers of child care in the United States, operating nearly 10,000 child care sites across the country, providing high-quality, and affordable care to more than 500,000 children. Ys also serve nearly 10 million children under the age of 18 through activities such as camping, sports and afterschool programs. YMCAs are the largest employers of teenagers in the country."

Even if you wrote the copy on the website, sometimes the copyright goes to the website owner, and not to the writer. A few years ago I wrote a bunch of articles for an Industry Canada web project, but the copyright of the text belongs the Hamilton Public Library, who contracted me. You would have to find out if you own the text you wrote, or if the webmaster does (if you're not the webmaster yourself).

Also, Wikipedia operates under the principle of copyleft, so everything that is contributed to the article becomes "free" by the terms of the GNU General Public License. In other words: if it was copyrighted before, once it appears on Wikipedia, it's not.

Hope this helps! ... disco spinster   talk  23:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)