Image Use Policy

The "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" Wiki is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. All rules regarding image use are dependent upon this fact.
For information on general licensing of the "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" Wiki, please read the Licensing Guide. Note that if you created an image and want to use it, you must license it under CC BY-SA 3.0 as well.

The terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) license are listed below:

  • Any use of media licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 must include attribution to the original source of the media. (BY: "Attribution")
  • Any material using media licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 must also be licensed under the same license or another compatible license. (SA: "Share-Alike")
  • No other restrictions may be placed on media licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

These are the only terms that are applicable to images on the "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" Wiki. Only images verifiably under licenses that include some or all of these terms and no more, or which are verifiably in the public domain, are permissible for use.


Media You Can't Use (Non-Compliant Media):

  • Copyrighted (All Rights Reserved) images: The terms of their use are reserved to the original author of the image, placing many impermissible restrictions.
  • Images that require a purchase to obtain their license (such as paid stock images): The terms of their use are so inhibiting as to require actual money to use it. As a note, manipulating an image to remove any watermarks or other features that would indicate it has been stolen is illegal and will not be tolerated. Remember: Just because it's on Google doesn't mean you can use it.
  • Images that you cannot find the license for. These cannot be verified to be cc-compliant or not, and thus are not permissible. If you cannot find the license of an image, do not use it.
  • Images licensed under the NC "NonCommercial" Creative Commons license: This places a restriction on allowing licensed media to be used for commercial purposes. The "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" Wiki is inherently commercial, by virtue of it not being a restriction placed by CC BY-SA 3.0. Thus, NC-licensed images are not allowed.
  • Images licensed under the ND "NoDerivs" Creative Commons license: This restricts adaptations of the licensed media. The "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" Wiki inherently allows adaptations of its content to be made, as there is no restriction in CC BY-SA 3.0 stating otherwise. Thus, ND-licensed images are not allowed.
  • Licenses that are not Creative Commons but still carry restrictions of their own: Even if these licenses allow commercial use, if they contain restrictions that are not present in CC BY-SA 3.0, they are non-compliant. Keep in mind, there may be sites that claim on the surface to be licensed under a Creative Commons license, but in fact, have restrictions not present in the original license as well. Always read the fine print.
  • Images of excessive nudity/pornography and/or excessive gore are not allowed. What counts as excessive nudity/pornography and/or excessive gore will be decided on a case-by-case basis by "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" Wiki Staff.

Rule of thumb: When in doubt, ask a staff member.


Media You Can Use (Compliant Media):

Simply put, the only images allowed for use on the wiki are those licensed under these licenses:

  • Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 2.0 and 3.0.
  • Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) 2.0 and 3.0.
  • Public Domain
  • Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0

You may use images under these licenses singularly and/or combined together via photo-manipulation software (as long as the software itself is cc-compliant). The final license of an image combining two differently licensed images would be the license among the two images that's the most restrictive.

Note that this applies to media besides images as well, including films, audio, etc.

Attribution (You're required to do this).

When attributing images you use in your tutorials you must include the necessary information for each image in the Bibliography. Necessary Information includes:

  1. File Name - The name of the original file.
  2. Name - If the actual name of the image is different than the filename, you will need to include it in the list.
  3. Author - The name of the original author.
  4. License - This is the original license issued with the image.
  5. Source Link - Link to where you got the image.
  6. Derivative of - This is conditional, if the image or media you are using is a derivative of another image then you must type the name of the work here as well.
  7. Additional Notes - This is optional if you have any remarks or notes about the use of the image put it here.

We recommend you place your bibliography in a collapsible like this:

If there is an image that you know to be non-compliant but want to use, first, find another image that is cc-compliant. If a replacement image cannot be found or made, and the tutorial cannot survive without the image you want, there is a procedure you must follow.

  1. Contact the original author of the image, if possible. If you are unable to establish contact with the original author, the image can not be used.
  2. If you are able to establish contact with the original author of the media, then give a short summary of "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" wiki as an online tutorial site for people to learn how to use the Unity Game Engine and explain that you would like to use their image on a tutorial or article you're creating.
  3. Explain that the "Johnny Shumway's Typed Tutorials for Unity Software" wiki, and all of its contents, are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and that the author's image would necessarily be re-licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 to be used in your tutorial or article on the site. Be sure to link them to the CC BY-SA 3.0 terms here.
  4. If they do not agree with these terms then the image can't be used. You can only use the image if the author agrees to all of the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
  5. Please provide proof that this has occurred via a screenshot/screenshots of the conversation between you and the author. Also, notify the author of the image to make a note on their official accounts that the image is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 as well.

If Images Are Found to Disobey Image Policy:

If an image is found to disobey the Image Policy, the image may be taken down immediately or the author of the article may be messaged to produce replacement images within a week's time, failure to comply will result in a Short-Term Ban of the Author's Membership to this site. Generally, if an author is inactive (that is, their articles are under staff purview), images will be immediately removed, whereas active authors will be notified of the non-compliant image(s) prior to removal.

If an image is requested to be taken down by the original image author, it will be done so immediately without question.

Images removed for non-compliance cannot be reinstated unless there is proof it is cc-compliant. Repeated reinstating of non-compliant images and/or sassing members of staff for performing licensing duties may result in disciplinary action.

Articles or Tutorials under staff purview may have their images replaced without consultation of the author. If the author wants to take down any staff-sanctioned replacements, they are entirely within their right to do so. Similarly, authors may revert staff image-replacements if they have evidence they produced the image/the image was cc-compliant.

Contact Us:

Please fill out this form here: Report Stolen Image/Violation of Image Policy Form. Responses to this form are sent to the Site Owner and Administrators. If you have any questions or can't find the information you are looking for use the contact form here: Contact Site Owner.

Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License