Public Domain 1 Proposal

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After careful thought, here is my proposal:

All generally shared content on ifwiki is defaulted to Public Domain unless:

1. Upon creation of an Article, the author specifies a copyright, which may be one of:
   1. Collective Work using any license the original author decides to implement.
   2. Byline, which gives the original author copyright to all content, including edits made by other individuals.

Copyrighted articles may reference other portions of ifwiki freely, but ifwiki must attribute copyright works appropriately.

If people felt it necessary, we could modify the new page form so that a second text box allows the original author the ability to enter their specific copyright or license clause. If this option is taken, only the original author would be allowed to modify this clause. The article itself would remain editable by the public.

In the case of a Collective Work, the maintenance of attribution would be the responsibility of the author or editors, not ifwiki.

So the result of this would be that the Glossary and Speed-IF pages would become public domain. The FAQ would have a Creative Commons license, and I would have to determine whatever copyright or license I want on the few articles I have started. After that, the Public Domain default would be placed into the new page form along with the option of creating a Collective Work or Byline copyrighted article.

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