This page in a nutshell: All written contributions to this project are automatically licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License. All content added to Wikivoyage articles must be original work or from a source that has been explicitly licensed under CC BY-SA or a compatible licence.

Wikivoyage uses acopyleft license for all content on the website.Anyone can use Wikivoyage content according to the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Andanyone can contribute their own or other people's content, as long as the work is their own or available under a compatible license.

It is very important that youunderstand how copyleft works before you contribute to Wikivoyage. If you find your work reused by someone else in a manner that you didn't consider, or if you stop using Wikivoyage for any reason, it is not possible to change the license for the work you have done. Although you always own the copyright in your work, and can licence it as you wish, you cannot withdraw the licence you gave.

If this seems confusing,skip down tothe FAQ.

Allwritten contributions to Wikivoyage are and must be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-by-SA 4.0) or a compatible license (e.g. CC-by-SA any or a dual license allowing distribution according to it) or it must be in the public domain. Consequently, all redistributed and derivative works of Wikivoyage text must also be licensed as CC-by-SA 4.0.

Images should generally be uploaded toWikimedia Commons. To be allowed there, they must be in the public domain or have a free license (seeCommons:Licensing); their individual licensing is described on their file description pages. Some images are hosted locally on Wikivoyage, either free media for special reasons, or images depicting non-free works and thereby derivative works of those, according to our policyWikivoyage:Non-free content – the photos need to have a free license, like on Commons, but there are additional restrictions because of the underlying non-free work.

Note that the CC-No Derivatives or CC-Non-Commercial licenses are non-free and non-compatible with the free licenses.

All redistributed and derivative works including Wikivoyage images and other files must provide file-specific attribution and licensing information, available on the individual file page.

Copyleft means that every single author, editor, illustrator, mapmaker, factchecker and photographer who puts their work into Wikivoyage gives you the right to read, copy, print, save, download, read aloud, project, modify, email, distribute, sell, photocopy and correct their work however you want to.

if you distribute it, or derive new work from it (other than in ways allowed without any licence)

• you must giveattribution to the creators
• you must retain the work and any derivative worksunder the same licensing, and disclose that licensing when distributing the work.

In other words, we give you practically every freedom within the boundaries of the law to use the information in Wikivoyage, except the freedom to take that freedom away from others, or to use it without proper attribution.

The license we use for the text is theAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (often abbreviated as "CC BY-SA 4.0") by the great people atCreative Commons. It's a piece of legal documentation that basically says the same thing as above: give Wikivoyagers credit for their work, and share with other people.

For the purposes of the License, aWork is the formatted text that makes up a single Wikivoyage article. Each image individually is also aWork for the purposes of the License; only some of them use the same license as the text, but most are either in the public domain in the U.S.A. (and often globally) or have a license giving the same freedoms;images differ in the specific requirements, such ashow you need to credit the author and present the license. Click on the image to get to the image description page, which should state what license applies or why we believe it is in the public domain. A few are published here according tofair use, which should be clearly told on their description pages.

The license doesn't protect you against copyright violations – if you see poems from your favourite contemporary poet quoted in Wikivoyage, you shouldn't go right ahead distributing it as free content (it is unlikely that the poet themself published it here). In addition, there may be other restrictions on use or distribution based on law in your jurisdiction; in particular, considerprivacy rights forphotographs of identifiable people and law on derivative works forphotographs of buildings and artworks.

Lastly, there isno warranty on any of the articles or images in Wikivoyage. Hotels close; bars raise prices; train schedules change; earthquakes, mudslides, wars and lightning strikes destroy sights, statues and cities. People make mistakes. Wikivoyagers try their best, but none of the creators of these pages are responsible to you in any way for any injury or discomfort you endure before, after, or during your travels. See the License above for details.

If you want to reuse any of our travel guides, whether to build a mirror site, distribute travel information for your city or even build some new gee-whiz travel application, you might want to check outWikivoyage:How to re-use Wikivoyage guides.

Copyleft means that every single yahoo, nutcase, screwjob, charlatan, shyster, weirdo, freakazoid, mouthbreather, goofball, lamer, cheater and jerk will have the right to read, copy, print, save, download, read aloud, project, modify, email, distribute, sell, photocopy and correct your work however they want to.

In particular, your work can be ruthlessly modified, edited, or cut from Wikivoyage altogether by otherWikivoyagers. It can be photocopied thousands of times and passed around as flyers by itinerant backpackers. It can be put in Hollywood movies, and it can be projected onto a screen at an outdoor rave. It can be used for commercial ventures, advertisements, or other purposes (with some restrictions) without your direct control.

In return for your incredible generosity, you will have the knowledge that you are helping travellers all over the world, and that all copies made of your work should be (indirectly) attributed to you, and that everyone who derives new works from yours should have to be just as generous as you are. And, of course, you get to use all the other work in Wikivoyage shared the same way; but you don't need to contribute to do that.

You'll also get the pleasure of collaborating with hundreds of otherWikivoyagers just like yourself. You'll get free spellcheck service from nit-picky folks you've never met. You'll work together with people you don't know to make better pictures, text, and maps than you've ever dreamed of. You still retain the copyright over your own work, and you can use it any other way you want (even if it's not compatible with our license!). By writing on Wikivoyage, or uploading photos, you're using a license under which all our work is available - making it simpler for everyone.

Now, the hard part: because of the Attribution-ShareAlike license, you are legally responsiblenot to put other people's copyrighted work into Wikivoyage without permission. You are responsible for gettingmodel releases from people you take pictures of, and you are responsible for anylibel you include in your articles.

Before editing Wikivoyage articles or uploading pictures, you should read very carefully thefull text of the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, and make sure that you agree to it.

We want to make the best possible travel guide, with the most brilliant writing, the most up-to-date info, the most awe-inspiring photos, the most detailed and readable maps. But no one item is worth putting yourself and this project in legal jeopardy. If you have any questions about the source of something you want to put in Wikivoyage,ask about it first.When in doubt, leave it out.

Contentcreated by AI (artificial intelligence) raises new issues about copyright, and it is largely still a legally gray area (as of mid-2020s). Copyright is created by human creative input, so works made by apes or AI aren't covered. However, many AI engines are based onlarge language models (LLM), which are trained on huge amounts of existing texts, written by humans. Depending on the workings of the AI and how the legal framework is interpreted, the content they create may violate original authors' copyrights (similarly with AI art and original artists). This is one more reason to avoid using them when contributing to Wikivoyage. Other reasons are their tendency to make things up ("hallucinate"), and a style of writing that doesn't suite this travel guide. The legal responsibility is with the editor who adds such content, but regardless, it is often removed by patrollers or other editors. New AI-written articles are usually deleted.

• Project:Why Wikivoyage isn't GFDL
• Project:Image policy#Copyleft license
• Project:Mapmaking Expedition#Copyrights
• Project:Dual licensing
• Project:Database dump
• Wikivoyage:How to re-use Wikivoyage guides