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lang="be-tarask" dir="ltr">беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/bg" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Commons:Първи стъпки/Избор на лиценз (24% translated)" lang="bg" dir="ltr">български</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/ru" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Commons:Первые шаги/Выбор лицензии (100% translated)" lang="ru" dir="ltr">русский</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/sr" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Остава:Први кораци/Одабир лиценце (2% translated)" lang="sr" dir="ltr">српски / srpski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/uk" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Commons:First steps/Вибір ліцензії (12% translated)" lang="uk" dir="ltr">українська</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/he" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" 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class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Commons:ជំហានដំបូង/ជ្រើសរើសអាជ្ញាបណ្ណ (17% translated)" lang="km" dir="ltr">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/zh" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="共享資源:初步教程/選擇授權條款 (64% translated)" lang="zh" dir="ltr">中文</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/ja" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Commons:ファースト・ステップ/ライセンス選択 (100% translated)" lang="ja" dir="ltr">日本語</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/License_selection/ko" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Commons:초보자 길라잡이/라이선스 선택 (86% translated)" lang="ko" dir="ltr">한국어</a></li></ul></div> <p><span id="shortcut" class="coordinates" style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Shortcuts" title="Commons:Shortcuts">Shortcut</a>: <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:FS/LS&redirect=no">COM:FS/LS</a></span></span> </p> <div class="firststepstour" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r953260109">.mw-parser-output .firststepstour{float:right;max-width:25em;margin:5px 0 1em 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:5px;background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);color:var(--color-base,#202122);font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .firststepstour-header{margin:-5px -5px 5px;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:5px;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);text-align:center;font-weight:bold}@media screen and (max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .firststepstour{float:none;max-width:none;margin:5px 0 1em}}</style> <div class="firststepstour-header"><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps" title="Commons:First steps">First steps</a></div> <dl><dt>First steps tour</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Commons:Project_scope/Summary" title="Commons:Project scope/Summary">Understanding Commons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Account" title="Commons:First steps/Account">Creating an account</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Uploading_files" title="Commons:First steps/Uploading files">File uploading</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">License selection</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Tips & tricks</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Quality_and_description" title="Commons:First steps/Quality and description">A perfect upload</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Sorting" title="Commons:First steps/Sorting">Sorting of files</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/File_transfer_and_tools" title="Commons:First steps/File transfer and tools">Tools that make life easier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commons:Software" title="Commons:Software">Useful media software</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Third parties</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Reuse" title="Commons:First steps/Reuse">Reuse of Commons’ media files</a></li></ul> </div> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#How_to_select_the_right_license"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">How to select the right license</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Tips_and_tricks"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Tips and tricks</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Available_licenses"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Available licenses</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Best_practices"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Best practices</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Wrapping_up"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Wrapping up</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_to_select_the_right_license" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_select_the_right_license"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_select_the_right_license"></span>How to select the right license<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_select_the_right_license"></span></h2></div> <p>When you upload a file, you must apply a license statement for it. </p><p>Choosing your file's <a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags" title="Commons:Copyright tags">license</a> is an important decision, as all content in Wikimedia Commons has to be <a href="/wiki/Commons:Licensing" title="Commons:Licensing">licensed freely</a>. It is therefore imperative to clarify your rights to upload it under a free license. The decision tree is a graphical overview of the issues below. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Decision_Tree_on_Uploading_Imagesv2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Decision_Tree_on_Uploading_Imagesv2.svg/400px-Decision_Tree_on_Uploading_Imagesv2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Decision_Tree_on_Uploading_Imagesv2.svg/600px-Decision_Tree_on_Uploading_Imagesv2.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Decision_Tree_on_Uploading_Imagesv2.svg/800px-Decision_Tree_on_Uploading_Imagesv2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="444"/></a><figcaption>Decision tree on uploading images to Commons</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tips_and_tricks" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tips_and_tricks-How_to_select_the_right_license"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tips_and_tricks-How_to_select_the_right_license"></span>Tips and tricks<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tips_and_tricks-How_to_select_the_right_license"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Generally, if you're releasing your own content under a free license, you cannot revoke the permissions granted.</li> <li>Some <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses">free licenses</a> automatically cover various versions of the licensed content, because, under applicable copyright law, these versions would be considered the <b>same work</b>. For instance, you may wish to license thumbnail-quality files under a Creative Commons license while keeping raw, higher-resolution copies proprietary. However, when doing so, you should be warned that you might well be unintentionally licensing those other versions, because, in regard to copyright, the two could be considered the same work.</li></ul> <dl><dd>If you grant such a license for users to use a version of a work, the license may automatically give users the same rights to use <i>any</i> version that differs only in the level of some automatic conversion, regardless of the quality or resolution. While details of what would be considered the same work vary between jurisdictions, one key issue is whether or not <a href="/wiki/Commons:Threshold_of_originality" title="Commons:Threshold of originality">enough creative expression</a> is added in the conversion. See <a href="/wiki/Commons:Same_work" title="Commons:Same work">Commons:Same work</a> for more details.</dd></dl> <ul><li>The easiest case of licensing are self-drawn images. Pictures taken by you are a little bit more problematic. If any of the identifiable people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, their permission is needed for publication. What constitutes a reasonable expectation of privacy differs greatly from country to country. See <a href="/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people" title="Commons:Photographs of identifiable people">COM:IDENT</a> for more precise, detailed information on these differences.</li> <li>Artwork permanently displayed in public is covered in several nations, including for example, Germany, Switzerland and Austria under <a href="/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama" title="Commons:Freedom of panorama">Freedom of Panorama</a>, while other nations like France and Italy have no such regulation. If Freedom of Panorama applies, you can upload your images of either artwork or buildings unimpeded. This is not allowed in nations like France and Italy; e.g., you cannot upload a picture of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_della_Civilt%C3%A0_Italiana" class="extiw" title="w:Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana">Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" class="extiw" title="w:Rome">Rome, Italy</a> unless the palace is <a href="/wiki/Commons:De_minimis" title="Commons:De minimis">incidental</a> to the photo as a whole.</li></ul> <dl><dd>In cases where the object in question was only temporarily installed in a public place, freedom of panorama might not apply. One famous example for this was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrapped_Reichstag" class="extiw" title="w:Wrapped Reichstag">wrapped Reichstag</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude" class="extiw" title="w:Christo and Jeanne-Claude">Christo</a> in Berlin, Germany. You'll also have to obtain permission for objects in museums or shots on private property — indoor photographs especially strictly require the owner's consent.</dd></dl> <ul><li>Most images you'll find on the Internet can't be uploaded, unless the copyright owner explicitly allowed for publication under a free license. You might try asking for permission, however. If you obtained such a permission via email, please forward it to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:permissions@wikimedia.org">permissions@wikimedia.org</a> and ask the copyright holder to do the same, and reference it at upload. It is advisable to attach a standard declaration of consent such as <a href="/wiki/Commons:Email_templates" title="Commons:Email templates">Commons:Email templates</a> to your email asking for permission.</li> <li>If a work's author died more than 70 years ago it is within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain" class="extiw" title="w:public domain">public domain</a> in most nations and can be uploaded in almost all cases. This applies to third party reproductions as well, as these lack the required own creativity needed to put it under copyright (see for example the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp." class="extiw" title="w:Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.">Bridgeman v. Corel</a></i> case).</li></ul> <p>More detailed information on copyright and licensing as well as copyright laws in different countries can be found at <a href="/wiki/Commons:Licensing" title="Commons:Licensing">Commons:Licensing</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Available_licenses" data-mw-thread-id="h-Available_licenses"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Available_licenses"></span>Available licenses<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Available_licenses"></span></h2></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Licensing jargon </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Term</th> <th>Meaning </th></tr> <tr> <td>License</td> <td>A legal document outlining the permitted use (or lack thereof) of media. Only the copyright owner of media can apply a license to it. </td></tr> <tr> <td>CC</td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons" class="extiw" title="w:Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a>, an organization that has written free licenses for public use. These licenses are prefixed with <i>CC</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Attribution</td> <td>Giving credit to the author. In CC licenses, this is abbreviated with <i>BY</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Share-alike</td> <td>Licensing works derived from a copylefted source in a similar fashion, this is abbreviated with <i>SA</i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Copyleft</td> <td>Allowing more permissive use than traditional copyright. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Fair use</td> <td>A doctrine in which the public has a limited right to use copyrighted materials. </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>If the media you are uploading is your own work, you have a number of available licenses to choose from. If you are not concerned with your rights to the media and merely want to add a file quickly, choosing an option from the "Best practices" section is a great choice. If you want to weigh what permissions you give and what rights you obtain, study each license and decide based upon your criteria. Following are a basic outline of each license, organized by best and better options. </p><p>If there is no appropriate license to select, you can set "None" and manually insert the proper license later on (for a list of all allowed licenses see <a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags" title="Commons:Copyright tags">Commons:Copyright tags</a>). This is a rather advanced way, however, as it requires you to know the exact license template's name. </p> <dl><dt>"I don't know what the license is"</dt></dl> <dl><dd>This isn't a valid option, but rather a test to verify that you know what you're doing. Files uploaded with this option checked will be marked for deletion. 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This is the recommended choice, as it makes using your media files very easy while still allowing you to keep some rights to the work.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>"Own work, attribution required" (<a href="/wiki/Template:CC_BY_4.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:CC BY 4.0"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{CC BY 4.0}}</span></a>)</dt></dl> <dl><dd>Another multi-license, this option requires attribution and/or releasing derivative works under similar licenses.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>"Own work, public domain" (<a href="/wiki/Template:CC0" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:CC0"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{CC0}}</span></a>)</dt></dl> <dl><dd>With this choice, you grant everyone the permission to use your media for whatever purpose they see fit. People don't even have to credit you. Once within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain" class="extiw" title="w:public domain">public domain</a>, your image cannot be relicensed later on. Other free licenses allow you to retain at least some of your rights.</dd></dl> <p>These licenses were created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons" class="extiw" title="w:Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a>, who created a group of modular licenses which can be mixed in many variations. All published versions of the two licenses are accepted. As of 2015, the 4.0 version is the most recently released one; the 2.0 version is often used for uploads from <a href="/wiki/Commons:Flickr_files" title="Commons:Flickr files">Flickr</a> since it is the only version available there. Files only available under licenses containing "Noncommercial" and/or "NoDerivatives" are unfree and therefore <i>not</i> accepted. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Wrapping_up" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wrapping_up"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wrapping_up"></span>Wrapping up<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wrapping_up"></span></h2></div> <p>Once you're done with these choices, it is a good idea to check "Watch this page" to keep track of any changes pertaining to your media. With your personal <a href="/wiki/Special:Watchlist" title="Special:Watchlist">watchlist</a>, you can see the tracked files' change dates, comments and the persons committing the change. You can find the watchlist in the user tabs atop any page. </p><p>Finally, once you click on "Upload file" it may be necessary to approve this action, as your software might consider this a security issue. 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