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Spanking Art:Image use policy
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Permissible image licenses
Any content you upload or post to this wiki must be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Images that infringe a copyright are subject to deletion. Copyright information (whether the image is in the public domain or copyrighted; who is the artist/photographer; which license permits the use of this image) must be added to the image description page of every uploaded image.
You may upload images under any of the following licenses: public domain, GFDL, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, BSD, GPL, LGPL. You are explicitly not allowed to upload images under licenses which forbid commercial use or the creation of derivative works. See Category:Image copyright tags for a list of available copyright tags.
Placing a copyrighted image or other work under a license is something only the copyright holder can legally do. So you can do this only a) if you are the copyright holder or b) if you have explicit permission from the copyright holder. If the work is in the public domain (usually this is the case when the copyright has expired, for example 19th century paintings or book illustrations), such a permission is not needed.
You are also explicitly not allowed, on this wiki, to upload copyrighted images which may be used only because of a claim of fair use.
For more information, see Spanking Art:Copyrights.
How to specify the source and license
Specify the source of the image in the field "Summary" on the upload file page (who is the creator and copyright holder, such as "Source: Photo taken by <Name>"). If the image was copied from some other website (e.g. Flickr, Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons), please specify the exact URL of the source. This is necessary to fulfil the terms of certain licenses, and also allows others to check and confirm the license status. Failure to specify the source URL will result in the deletion of your image if a copyright infringement is suspected.
Select the appropriate license from the drop-down box on the upload file page. Alternatively, you can also edit the image's page manually to specify the image's license status. Images without a license are subject to deletion without notice. Please use these notations to specify the license:
- {{PD}} for public domain (Usage)
- {{PD-US}} for images which are public domain in the U.S., but may be still copyrighted elsewhere (Usage)
- {{Free-Release}} for images whose copyright holder has irrevocably released all rights (Usage)
- {{GFDL}} for GFDL (Usage)
- {{CC-BY}} for CC-BY (Usage)
- {{Cc-by-2.0}} for CC-BY 2.0 (Usage)
- {{CC-BY-SA}} for CC-BY-SA (Usage)
- {{CC-BY-SA-2.0}} for CC-BY-SA 2.0 (Usage)
- {{GPL}} for GPL (Usage)
- {{LGPL}} for LGPL (Usage)
These are templates (note the curly brackets) and will automatically create a nice looking license box and put your image into the appropriate category. The license box will look e.g. like this:
| Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. |
You can also dual-license images, for example by specifying both {{GFDL}} and {{CC-BY-SA}}.
Pairings and categories
In addition, for spanking art images, if possible please add a pairing such as "F/m" and put the image in the appropriate category, such as [[Category:F/m]].
No pornography
Obscene images as defined by U.S. law must not be uploaded in this wiki. (Pornography is not a legal term in the U.S., only obscenity is.)
No photos of minors
Because this wiki discusses adult topics such as sexuality, photographs of minors are not welcome here because they may be seen as a violation of the child's personality rights. A minor is any person under the age of 18. By request from our new host, this rule now also includes photos which are old enough to be in the public domain (all copyrights have expired) and cases in which no personality rights can be violated, such as photos which don't show the person's face.
Photos of adults are welcome, but the photo must be under a free license (see above) which permits reuse of the photo for any purpose whatsoever (including modifications and commercial use), and the context in which such an image is used must be such that the person depicted is not likely to find that their personality rights are violated. If a person on a photo appears to be younger than 30, any user or admin may ask the uploader for proof or evidence that the person on the photo has been 18 years or older at the time when the photo was taken. If such proof or evidence can not be brought, the photo may be deleted.
No indecent pseudo-photographs of minors
Indecent pseudo-photographs of a child (a term from British law) are also not permitted in this wiki, by request from our new host. See the Wikipedia article for definitions of the terms "indecency", "pseudo-photograph", and "child" according to the Protection of Children Act 1978, which is valid in England and Wales.
Paintings, illustrations, drawings, and computer-generated images (e.g. rendered art) may fall under this definition if they are such that they appear to be a photograph. See also photorealism.
Note: To be on the "safer than safe" side, our host requests that we include images in this category if
- the artwork is very realistic, even when it is not photorealistic (*), and
- the artwork depicts, or appears to depict, a minor (**), and
- the artwork depicts, or appears to depict, any physical violence or nudity (***), even when this is without any suggestion of eroticism or sexuality.
Examples of such work are William-Adolphe Bouguereau's paintings of child nudes such as "The First Kiss", Paul Marie's painting "La Fessée" and Lee Warner's photo-based CG spanking artwork. This does not say that these works fall under the definition of illegal media in the U.K. While our host requests that such images themself are not uploaded in this wiki, it remains allowed to discuss them in this wiki and to link to external sites that host these images, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the Art Renewal Center, Flickr or Handprints.
(*) for example, traced photography work that is too realistic
(**) any person under 18, this includes fictional humanoid characters such as angels or aliens if they resemble human minors
(***) this includes legal parenting methods such as spanking and everyday life situations such as bathing
Please collect any photos of minors and images you consider to be close to "indecent pseudo-photos of minors" on Spanking Art:Admin requests where they will be examined and deleted if they are found to violate this policy.
No hotlinking external images
Embedding externally hosted images (also known as image hotlinking or inline linking) is technically possible in this wiki, but not permitted because a) it is bandwidth theft, b) the site that hosts the image may not like the placement in our wiki. If the external image has a license that is compatible with the above mentioned ones, you can save the image temporarily to your computer and then upload it here (writing the original URL as the source, and the license information on the image description page). If it doesn't, you can add a normal link to the image URL instead of hotlinking.
