Austrian Economics Wiki:Copyrights: Difference between revisions

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The Austrian Economics Wiki is a free-content repository. Unless otherwise noted, its material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Contributors may not specify an alternate license; all original contributions are released under it.

Three layers apply, because this wiki is a fork of an older one.

Contributions from 2010 to 2014

This wiki's corpus began as the Mises Wiki, which released all original contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. That grant is what makes this fork lawful, and it is why the page histories were imported intact rather than flattened: attribution is a condition of the license, and every revision here carries the username that made it.

Attribution-only licenses impose no obligation that Attribution 4.0 removes, so restating the site default at 4.0 takes nothing from anyone who contributed under 3.0. Those revisions also remain available under Attribution 3.0 in their own right, from the history of the page they appear on.

Text derived from Wikipedia

Text copied from Wikipedia is a separate case and is not covered by the license above. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, which requires that derivative works carry the same license. A ShareAlike license may be upgraded to a later ShareAlike version; it may never be converted to a plain Attribution license.

Pages carrying such text are tagged with {{Wikipedia text}}, which prints the notice and the source article on the page itself and files it in Category:Mises Wiki articles incorporating text from Wikipedia. As of August 2026 that covers 88 articles and 231 templates. If you reuse one of those pages, reuse it under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.

Reusing material from this wiki

Attribution 4.0 asks for reasonable credit, a link to the license, and an indication of whether you changed anything. For an article here, crediting "The Austrian Economics Wiki" with a link to the page satisfies it, since the page carries its own contributor history. You may republish, translate, excerpt, and sell the material, and you need ask no one's permission.

Material this wiki quotes

Contributors should comply with existing copyright law and should not copy text from other websites unless it is in the public domain or carries a compatible license. Quotation for discussion is a different matter and is normal practice here.

Many older works are in the public domain in the United States, among them:

all works published more than 95 calendar years ago, which through 2026 means everything published up to and including 1930;
works published in the United States between 1930 and 1963 whose copyrights were never renewed;
most works of the United States Government.

Non-affiliation

This wiki is an independent continuation of the Mises Wiki under new stewardship. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which hosted the original project until 2014.

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-Mises Wiki is a '''free-content repository'''.  Thus, unless otherwise noted, all its material is licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported] license.
+The Austrian Economics Wiki is a '''free-content repository'''. Unless otherwise noted, its material is licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International] license. Contributors may not specify an alternate license; all original contributions are released under it.
-Contributors may not specify an alternate license—all original contributions are released under the above license.
+Three layers apply, because this wiki is a fork of an older one.
-Derivative works of text copied from [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] are marked with {{tl|Wikipedia text}} and are licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported] license.
+==Contributions from 2010 to 2014==
-Contributors should comply, insofar as is possible, with existing copyright laws and regulations.  Thus, editors should not copy and paste work from other websites, unless the material is in the public domain or also carries the Creative Commons Attribution license.
+This wiki's corpus began as the Mises Wiki, which released all original contributions under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported] license. That grant is what makes this fork lawful, and it is why the page histories were imported intact rather than flattened: attribution is a condition of the license, and every revision here carries the username that made it.
-Many older works are in the public domain in the United States, and thus may be quoted liberally, such as:
+Attribution-only licenses impose no obligation that Attribution 4.0 removes, so restating the site default at 4.0 takes nothing from anyone who contributed under 3.0. Those revisions also remain available under Attribution 3.0 in their own right, from the history of the page they appear on.
-*All works published prior to January 1, 1923.
-*All works published in the United States prior to 1964, whose authors did not renew their copyrights.
+==Text derived from Wikipedia==
-*Most works of the United States Government.
+Text copied from Wikipedia is a separate case and is '''not''' covered by the license above. It is licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported], which requires that derivative works carry the same license. A ShareAlike license may be upgraded to a later ShareAlike version; it may never be converted to a plain Attribution license.
+Pages carrying such text are tagged with {{tl|Wikipedia text}}, which prints the notice and the source article on the page itself and files it in [[:Category:Mises Wiki articles incorporating text from Wikipedia]]. As of August 2026 that covers 88 articles and 231 templates. If you reuse one of those pages, reuse it under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
+==Reusing material from this wiki==
+Attribution 4.0 asks for reasonable credit, a link to the license, and an indication of whether you changed anything. For an article here, crediting "The Austrian Economics Wiki" with a link to the page satisfies it, since the page carries its own contributor history. You may republish, translate, excerpt, and sell the material, and you need ask no one's permission.
+==Material this wiki quotes==
+Contributors should comply with existing copyright law and should not copy text from other websites unless it is in the public domain or carries a compatible license. Quotation for discussion is a different matter and is normal practice here.
+Many older works are in the public domain in the United States, among them:
+* all works published more than 95 calendar years ago, which through 2026 means everything published up to and including 1930;
+* works published in the United States between 1930 and 1963 whose copyrights were never renewed;
+* most works of the United States Government.
+==Non-affiliation==
+This wiki is an independent continuation of the Mises Wiki under new stewardship. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which hosted the original project until 2014.
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