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BirdForum Opus:Copyrights - BirdForum Opus

Birdforum Opus consists of contributions from many authors; as a rule, each page contains material uploaded by more than one author. The single author retains copyright to his/her contributions, but by uploading to Birdforum accepts to give a non-exclusive, non-retractable, license to Birdforum for these contributions. The copyright of the overall site is owned by Birdforum.

This has several implications: firstly, you have to be the owner of copyright for everything you contribute to Birdforum Opus, you cannot copy-paste from other sources including for example Wikipedia. Secondly, you cannot demand that text you contribute be deleted at a later time. Thirdly, you can re-use text at other locations that you contributed yourself, but you cannot copy text contributed by others. Fourthly, a non-contributor cannot copy anything from Birdforum for use anywhere else, but is welcome to link to resources in Birdforum. Deep linking where the source of for example an image cannot be seen is prohibited.

See also Help:Copyright here

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