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I want to use content from a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange question and answer. How do I comply with the Attribution requirements?
One of the requirements of the CC BY-SA license used for content on the Network is Attribution. What does proper attribution look like for questions and answers found on the Network?
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Enhancement Request: Attribution Block Markdown
Over at Worldbuilding we constantly bring images and quotes in from outside sources. I suspect other Stacks do that a lot, too. When it comes to images, charts, and graphs, we want people to properly ...
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How is removing the user's name from their post compatible with copyright? [duplicate]
So it was explained to me that if a user is removed, regardless of the Stack Exchange site, the name will also be removed from all of their posts. It is completely unimportant at this point why the ...
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Who is the original artist of the comic on the blog post "Do large language models know what they are talking about?"
The blog post Do large language models know what they are talking about? has the comic:
A: It is time to learn about magic circles.
B: ugh, why is it so complex? ... What does this symbol in the ...
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How can one handle copyrighted content when asking questions on SE platforms?
All the content in Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange (even this question) is under Creative Commons BY-SA, with the license version dependent on the date it was published.
If you are asking ...
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Just to clarify the attribution requirements
When a question or answer was posted under one license (e.g. CC BY-SA 3.0), and edited under a different license (e.g. CC BY-SA 4.0), who should be credited as the "author" for attribution ...
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Reusing an answer's image after editing in another post on a different Stack Exchange site?
I would like to download an image from this answer on Blender Stack Exchange (linking to imgur), edit it and use it in a post on another site of Stack Exchange in a question. (Basically I want ...
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How to attribute images in questions and answers?
When a question uses an image without attribution, and the source is not germane to the question or answer except insofar as proper attribution, what is the best way to attribute the image? In an edit ...
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Does the license given to Stack Exchange forbid the "additional terms", terminate the license, making it useless? [closed]
The term of service of Stack Overflow add "additional terms" to creative commons license. In question Are the SE additions to the Creative Commons attribution requirements enforceable? the ...
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Is it okay to use DMCA takedown notices to remove my content from SCRAPER sites?
I've (okay, it wasn't entirely me) found yet another SCRAPER site, and have reported it to Stack Exchange through the standard route. This scraper is somewhat exceptional in that it's scraping a ...
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Why is there no citation feature? [duplicate]
There are some questions about how content, especially source code, on Stack Overflow is licensed and how it should be attributed (see below). There is even a Stack Overflow blog post about how to ...
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"StackOverflow Knowledge Transfer Program"?
There has been content farms copying Stack Overflow content without proper attribution before, but this one, well...
Have a look at http://www.404qa.com/. The website is in Chinese, yes, but every ...
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Correct attribution is impossible for failed sites
Two of the attribution requirements in the data dumps are:
2. Hyperlink directly to the original question on the source site (e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345)
4. Hyperlink each ...
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Should SO content have been licensed under CC-BY-SA-NC instead of CC-BY-SA?
I know it's probably too late to change it, but do you think it would have been better if Stack Overflow used the non-commercial version of the Creative Commons license?
I ask this because I was ...
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Globberstack copying questions from Stack Overflow word for word
I was recently researching a question I asked on Stack Overflow by using Google. I typed in a query similiar to the question I had posted on Stack Overflow.
Surprise surprise, there was my question ...
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weask.us is cloning Stack Overflow content
Just did my usual Google search for programming stuff, and got a result from the site www.weask.us. To my surprise, I got a page that was ripped off Stack Overflow.
After some surfing around it ...
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Did anyone notice that some sites seem to be scraping/republishing SO's posts? [duplicate]
Such as:
http://tech.e freedom.com/Question/1-2837475/Jetty-offline-documentation
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Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers?
I just found http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/faq/4761/whats-the-hi-lo-algorithm which has an exact copy of this Stack Overflow question, What's the Hi/Lo Algorithm, with all its answers and no ...
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