User talk:Sugarzoozoo

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Wikipedia and copyright
You should know that, according to Copyright, by putting your characters and stories on your userpage, you grant "Permission ... to copy, distribute and/or modify Wikipedia's text under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and, unless otherwise noted, the GNU Free Documentation License. unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts." In other words, "If you contribute text directly to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to the public for reuse." In short, by putting your characters and stories on your user page, you are pretty much throwing away any copyright claims. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)