Talk:Independents for Frome

Latest comment: 9 years ago by NebY in topic ? Copyright of mission statement
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The mission statement on this article appears to be copied from this facebook page. I am unsure of the copyright status of a party's mission statement. Can anyone clarify? (I'm not sure if adding a mission statement might also be considered a POV violation as not presenting a balanced picture).— Rod talk 16:36, 12 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

My understanding was that a mission statement was open but I could be wrong about this. --Mercifull (Talk/Contribs) 18:45, 12 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
Copyright resides in mission statements just as in other published material. Remember also that (as stated at the start of Wikipedia:Copyright violations) "One of the most important aspects of Wikipedia is that its text (not media; but that will be discussed shortly) may be freely redistributed, reused and built upon by anyone, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA)...." and so we have to be particularly careful. There are procedures for releasing material for use under that license - see WP:COPYVIO for details on that and more. NebY (talk) 17:21, 24 May 2015 (UTC)Reply