Jul 15, 2020 · Google Images is a wonderful tool for locating the perfect image to use in presentations, documents and on social media. But before you use images found through Google, you must consider copyright law.
Wikipedia (and all Wikimedia projects) strongly prefer "free" files. Where no free file exists, it is sometimes permissible to use a non-free (copyright-protected) file under the "fair use" provision. Fair use, in the United States, is the legal right to use copyright-protected materials under certain conditions. While all article text is licensed under the GFDL, free images have several free content licenses to choose from. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Free licenses for the many possibilities. You can use them on any appropriate page on Wikipedia. Dec 05, 2012 · In some cases, apart from copyright, images may be trademarks. You can't always use a trademark, even if you hold a copyright license. This depends on the use of the picture. * Are the images on Wikipedia copyright free? No. They hold copyright, but in most cases they grant you specific rights for re-using the image. That depends on the individual picture. While all Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), images and other media are licensed separately. Jun 20, 2020 · This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 17:37. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; all unstructured text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
You should read the image’s file description page to learn whether the image is copyrighted and the terms of its license. If you have questions about how you can properly contribute to the Wikimedia Commons or how to legally use works in the Commons in your own works, feel free to contact New Media Rights via our contact form to find out
Sep 07, 2008 · On this page, you have access to the full-resolution images, image metadata and file history, and a description of both the image and its copyright status/license. If you found the image on Wikipedia and not through Commons, double-check that the image description page does not say that the image is used under "fair use".
Jun 20, 2020 · This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 17:37. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; all unstructured text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
In such cases, an image that is copyrighted in its home country, but ineligible for copyright in the U.S. may be uploaded locally on the English Wikipedia as a public domain image using a tag such as {}. This will help to prevent copying to Commons, where media must be free both in the source country and the U.S.