Bugwoodwiki:Copyright
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All content found in the BugwoodWiki may be re-used in non-profit, educational publications as long as the Original Authors and the BugwoodWiki are properly cited in the derivative work.
- Educational use
- Educational use is most often associated with non-profit organizations. To qualify as educational use, the end product must be distributed free of charge. Also, the product must be used to educate the public and may not be used to advertise a company, services, or products. Educational use also includes using images to accompany one-time articles in a daily/weekly periodical (newspaper/magazine) since the article is not used to increase circulation, but is used to better illustrate a subject while providing information to the public. A commercial company may qualify for educational usage when hired by a non-profit organization to produce an educational materials that are distributed free of charge. An example of this is a publishing company being hired by a city to produce pamphlets on an exotic pest when they will be available to the public free of charge.
- Proper citation
- In many cases, this will be cone via the atandard citation styles used for Internet resources. Where a reference section is not used in a publication, an appropriate citation would be "Based on work by [Authors], [Article Title] as found on the BugwoodWiki.
