Often, people wish to "donate" copyrighted materials to MyPolokwane.com. These materials may be text, images, audio, or video. They may or may not already be posted on some other web site. They may or may not actually be appropriate for inclusion in MyPolokwane.com. This page exists to provide some guidance in these matters.

(Most of what is on this page also applies to work in the public domain, but the focus is on copyrighted materials, because they raise more complicated issues.)

This page is about contributors who would like to get permission to use other people's work in MyPolokwane.com

To use copyrighted material on MyPolokwane.com, it is not enough that we have permission to use it on this site alone. That's because we state all material may be used by anyone, for any purpose (downstream use). So we have to be sure all material is in fact licensed for that purpose (downstream use), regardless of who provided it.