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This is a draft policy. It needs to be worked on.

The content of the Club Penguin Wiki is under a copyleft license - the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

The following is not a legal agreement. It explains in simple English what our license allows you to do with our content and how to deal with Fair Use for Club Penguin content. Our full license can be found here.

Your rights for distribution and modification

Adapted from the CC website

To distribute and/or copy wiki content, you must:

  • The right to share: You have the right to share, transmit, copy, distribute the work. (e.g: copy parts into your blog for context)
  • The right to remix: You have the right to change the content. (e.g: cut out irrelevant parts for a quotation, rephrasing if necessary)

However, you must obey these restrictions to be legally allowed to do this:

  • Attribution: You must credit us. (a link to the original page would be sufficent)
  • Non-commercial: You cannot use this work commercially. (you cannot profit off of the work)
  • Share alike: You must continue using the same license as we use with the content. The license will only affect the parts distributed/copied from this wiki. (you must continue using this license)

However, these restrictions can be waived with permission. Any public domain elements will continue to be public domain.

This licensing is not important in-wiki, but if you want to copy our content for use outside CPWN, you must follow the above.

Fair use for Club Penguin content

In order to present the content of the wiki in an appropriate context, we use content owned by Club Penguin d/b/a Disney Online Studios. Our usage of content owned by Disney Online Studios is believed to be fair use as it helps convey the content of this wiki.