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Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License">GFDL</a>)</li></ul></div></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Guidelines</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content" title="Wikipedia:Non-free content">Non-free content</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia">Copying within Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain" title="Wikipedia:Public domain">Public domain content</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-US_copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Non-US copyrights">Non-US copyrights</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Advice</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright">Frequently asked questions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials" title="Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials">Donating copyrighted material</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_text_from_other_sources" title="Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources">Copying text from other sources</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Requesting copyright permission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing" title="Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing">Close paraphrasing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_copyright_violations_101" title="Wikipedia:Text copyright violations 101">Guidance for text copyright problems</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Processes</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems" title="Wikipedia:Copyright problems">Copyright problems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Files for discussion">Files for discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations" title="Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations">Contributor copyright investigations</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Resources</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyright_problems" title="Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems">General help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_assistance" title="Wikipedia:Copyright assistance">Copyright assistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions" title="Wikipedia:Media copyright questions">Media copyright questions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_copyright_tags" title="Wikipedia:File copyright tags">File copyright tags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries" title="Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries">Declaration of consent</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_copyright" title="Template:Wikipedia copyright"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wikipedia_copyright" title="Template talk:Wikipedia copyright"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia_copyright" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia copyright"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br/> </p><p>To use copyrighted material on Wikipedia, it is <i>not enough</i> that we have permission to use it on Wikipedia alone. That's because Wikipedia itself states all its material may be used by anyone, for any purpose. So we have to be sure all material is in fact licensed for that purpose, whoever provided it. </p><p>To do this, we must often email or contact the copyright holders and ask them to irrevocably release the source material under one or more <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can_I_add_something_to_Wikipedia_that_I_got_from_somewhere_else?" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright">suitably-free and compatible</a> copyright licenses, so that the content may be used at Wikipedia. We ordinarily ask that such release be provided under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 Unported License</a> (CC BY-SA) or a CC BY-SA-compatible license and, if possible, also the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a> (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">our copyright policy</a> for more. </p><p>The main legal issue that is important to explain to potential contributors: they would be agreeing that their material can be used freely by Wikipedia AND its downstream users, and that such use might include commercial use, for which the contributor is not entitled to royalties or compensation. Wikimedia itself is a non-profit organization, and any money it raised from the re-use of Wikimedia content would go to furthering our aims—buying new servers to keep the websites running efficiently, producing print runs, making Wikipedia available on CD/DVD for schools and developing countries, and other activities. However, not all of those who re-use our content are so high-minded. </p><p>This means that a contributor's work might appear in print or digital versions of this encyclopedia that are sold in stores. It might appear in books, or other specialized subsets of the full text—teacher curriculum packets, publicity brochures, or other uses we haven't thought of yet. It will certainly be used by other websites that legally copy our content. </p><p>About half the people we ask say <i>yes</i>, especially if it's explained that the license terms mean it is more widely appreciated and that we do not want to use all their material, but just one image or item. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission" title="Wikipedia:Example requests for permission">Wikipedia:Example requests for permission</a> for more. </p><p>This page explains what must be done if you want to use content that's copyrighted, whether you know who produced it or you don't. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="More" data-mw-thread-id="h-More"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-More"></span>More<span data-mw-comment-end="h-More"></span></h2></div> <p>It sometimes happens that users post text from other websites claiming to have permission to do so. Sometimes, images from other websites are uploaded and claimed to be under a <a href="/wiki/Free_content" title="Free content">free license</a> (<a href="/wiki/ShareAlike" class="mw-redirect" title="ShareAlike">CC BY-SA</a>, <a href="/wiki/GFDL" class="mw-redirect" title="GFDL">GFDL</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain" title="Wikipedia:Public domain">public domain</a>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:No_rights_reserved" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:No rights reserved">No rights reserved</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, or others). If the external website does not have any indication that such claims are well-founded, it is a good idea to try to verify such claims. </p><p>If the poster or uploader claims to be the copyright holder and website owner themself, leave them a message on-Wiki asking them to include a license statement on their website that says that the text or image in question is indeed published under the claimed license. That's the easiest way to confirm such a claim. If they would prefer not to do that, or claim to have permission from some third party (usually the original author or photographer), permission can be verified as below through email. </p><p>If you yourself have found an image or text source and want to contact the photographer or copyright holder up-front to secure permission before uploading the image or adding the text, you should also follow these guidelines. </p><p>The main legal thing that is important to explain to potential contributors: they would be agreeing that their picture (or text) can be used freely by Wikipedia AND its downstream users, and that such use might include commercial use, for which the contributor is not entitled to royalties or compensation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_to_ask_for_permission" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_ask_for_permission"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_ask_for_permission"></span>How to ask for permission<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_ask_for_permission"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimedia_VRT_release_generator" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:Wikimedia VRT release generator">Wikimedia VRT release generator</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:OTRS">Declaration of consent for all enquiries</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission" title="Wikipedia:Example requests for permission">Example requests for permission</a></div> <p>Search the external website and try to find a contact address. Most websites give an e-mail address of the webmaster; if the author of the text or the photographer of an image is known, try to contact the author or photographer directly. In general, do not send an inquiry to an e-mail address you find posted on Wikipedia: if you have reason to question a license claim made on Wikipedia, you also have reason to wonder whether contact data given on Wikipedia is correct. Try to find a contact address from a source other than the Wiki. Email them explaining the situation and asking for their permission. If authorship is unclear, ask them to confirm that the text or image is indeed theirs. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_text" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_text-How_to_ask_for_permission"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_text-How_to_ask_for_permission"></span>For text<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_text-How_to_ask_for_permission"></span></h3></div> <p>Text imported from other sites into Wikipedia articles must be licensed under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 Unported License</a> (CC BY-SA) (CC BY-SA compatible licenses are also accepted, as, of course, is release into public domain). When asking for permission, you should explain that this means that </p> <ol><li>The text may be freely redistributed and used.</li> <li>It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used.</li> <li>In all cases, CC BY-SA requires proper attribution of the author(s).</li> <li>CC BY-SA allows commercial re-uses provided such re-use is also under CC BY-SA.</li></ol> <p>You may also choose to explain that the author does not give up any of their rights to use the text: they are still free to publish the text elsewhere or to license the same text to other parties under any other license. </p><p>It is recommended that you attempt to obtain dual-licensing for text under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a> (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) license as well, which uses similar ideologies to CC BY-SA, but is incompatible. Wikipedia's general content is co-licensed, and it is more convenient for our reusers to have material available under both licenses, but it is not essential when importing text from external sites authored by others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_images" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_images-How_to_ask_for_permission"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_images-How_to_ask_for_permission"></span>For images<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_images-How_to_ask_for_permission"></span></h3></div> <p>For images, you are not limited to CC BY-SA: any free license will do. If the photographer's identity is unclear (for instance, if an image was uploaded stating the photographer's name and claiming a free license, but the image cannot be found on the web), ask them to confirm that the image is theirs. In any case, ask them to confirm the claimed license. For CC BY-SA, point out the points mentioned above. Any free license must allow <i>all</i> of the following, for both the image itself <i>as well as</i> any modified versions based on it: </p> <ol><li>Modification</li> <li>Redistribution</li> <li>Use for any purpose, including commercial purposes.</li></ol> <p>The only restrictions allowable are proper attribution of the creator and the requirement that derivative works are similarly licensed. </p><p>Persons who are the subject of a Wikipedia biography may also use <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us/Photo_submission" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission">Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Consent_letter" data-mw-thread-id="h-Consent_letter"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Consent_letter"></span>Consent letter<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Consent_letter"></span></h2></div> <p>Direct copyright holders to read <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries" title="Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries">Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries</a> for a sample letter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="When_permission_is_confirmed" data-mw-thread-id="h-When_permission_is_confirmed"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-When_permission_is_confirmed"></span><span class="anchor" id="Confirmed"></span>When permission is confirmed<span data-mw-comment-end="h-When_permission_is_confirmed"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Wikipedia:copyrights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems" title="Wikipedia:Copyright problems">Wikipedia:Copyright problems</a></div> <p>Once you have received a written/e-mail confirmation granting permission you should: </p> <ol><li>If the material is not already on Commons or Wikipedia: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:upload" class="extiw" title="commons:special:upload">Upload</a> relevant images, sound recordings or videos to Commons. If you don't have a Commons account, see <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps" class="extiw" title="commons:Commons:First steps">Commons:First steps</a> for more help. If for text, upload to Wikipedia.</li> <li>Please ask the copyright holder to e-mail the permission e-mails for Commons uploads to <b><span class="nowrap">permissions-commons<span class="mw-no-invert"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="@"><img alt="@" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/23px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/30px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145"/></span></span></span>wikimedia.org</span></b> and for text permissions to <b><span class="nowrap">permissions-en<span class="mw-no-invert"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="@"><img alt="@" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/23px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/30px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145"/></span></span></span>wikimedia.org</span></b> (both are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Volunteer_response_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Volunteer response team">volunteer response team</a> addresses). Make sure to include in this mail: <ul><li>the original request and confirmation answer</li> <li>the source Internet URL and the Wikimedia link for the image or article</li></ul> <dl><dd>as this will enable the Wikimedia information team to verify the materials.</dd></dl></li> <li>Add <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Permission_pending" title="Template:Permission pending">permission pending</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> to the image description page or article talk page (whichever is applicable). This will help an editor <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VRT/Users" class="extiw" title="m:VRT/Users">with access to VRTS</a> to tag the article or image with {{<a href="/wiki/Template:Permission_ticket" title="Template:Permission ticket">Permission ticket</a>|ticket=<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://linktoticket.example.org">http://linktoticket.example.org</a> }} providing evidence of the received e-mail and clearing the status of the item in question. Providing the link to the VRTS ticket number is essential for easy verification.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="If_no_permission_is_granted" data-mw-thread-id="h-If_no_permission_is_granted-When_permission_is_confirmed"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-If_no_permission_is_granted-When_permission_is_confirmed"></span>If no permission is granted<span data-mw-comment-end="h-If_no_permission_is_granted-When_permission_is_confirmed"></span></h3></div> <p>If the copyright holder does not respond or otherwise declines to release a file under a free license, then consider leaving a note on any related talk pages so other editors will know not to waste their time trying to contact that copyright holder again. For existing non-free files on Wikipedia that are being used under fair use rules, this can be done by adding <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Owner_contacted" title="Template:Owner contacted">owner contacted</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> to the file description page. It may also be a good idea to log any such requests, whether successful or unsuccessful, at <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WikiProject_Permission_requests" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:WikiProject Permission requests">Commons:WikiProject Permission requests</a> on Commons. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Typical_request_letter_for_confirmation" data-mw-thread-id="h-Typical_request_letter_for_confirmation"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Typical_request_letter_for_confirmation"></span>Typical request letter for confirmation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Typical_request_letter_for_confirmation"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission" title="Wikipedia:Example requests for permission">Wikipedia:Example requests for 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