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The United States Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. The text of the First Amendment states that: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress ...
WP:FREESPEECH - Wikipedia is not a governmental entity. You do not have free speech here, this is our house and we can tell you to leave at any time. That is our right to free speech, which you have no right to take away from us.
In 1798, Congress, which contained several of the ratifiers of the First Amendment at the time, adopted the Alien and Sedition Acts.The laws prohibited the publication of "false, scandalous, and malicious writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame ... or to bring them ...
For this reason, free (as in speech) content is always preferred over un-free or restricted content. Wikipedia does allow fair use content to some extent, but only when it is not possible to create or obtain a free alternative. Basically, fair use content should be replaced by free content whenever possible, because we want our content to be ...
v. t. e. To use copyrighted material on Wikipedia, it is not enough that we have permission to use it on Wikipedia alone. That's because Wikipedia itself states all its material may be used by anyone, for any purpose. So we have to be sure all material is in fact licensed for that purpose, whoever provided it.
For all other questions please see Wikipedia:Questions. How to add a copyright tag to an existing image. On the description page of the image (the one whose name starts File: ), click Edit this page. From the page Wikipedia:File copyright tags, choose the appropriate tag: For work you created yourself, use one of the ones listed under the ...
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Works subject to copyright law. The United States copyright law protects "original works of authorship" fixed in a tangible medium, [1] including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.