Caregiving and dementia/Wiki training/Copyright
Copyright and creative commons
[edit | edit source]Any content (text, images, files) uploaded to the Wikimedia Foundation must be in the public domain or have an open license.
- If you own the content, you must agree to an open license.
- If you do not own the content, then you need to get written permission from the copyright owner to upload under an open license.
- Creative commons licensing allows a greater range of choices for sharing copyrighted material.}}
Watch
A shared culture
(4 min. video)
Any content contributed to the WMF wikis requires the copyright owner to provide a:
- Creative Commons Attribution (CC-by-A) or Share-alike license (CC-by-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) or
- put the material in the public domain.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Introduction to free licenses (Wikipedia basics)
- Useful tips for uploading to Wiki Commons - pdf
- Wikiversity:Copyrights
