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- Most images you might find on the Internet are copyrighted and not appropriate for uploading to Wikipedia. If you did not create the image, or if you are unable or unwilling to verify its copyright status, do not upload the image. Images whose owners have stipulated they be used for non-commercial purposes only are not allowed.
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Public domain images are not copyrighted, and copyright law does not restrict their use in any way. Wikipedia pages, including non-English language pages, are hosted on a server in the United States, so US law governs whether a Wikipedia image is in the public domain.
Obtaining images. All images must comply with Wikipedia's image use policy: in general, they must be free for reuse, including commercial use and use after alteration, though some " fair use " of non-free content is allowed in limited circumstances—see Wikipedia:Non-free content .
Images submitted to Commons are used the same way as images uploaded locally to Wikipedia and are automatically available on Wikipedia—as well as on hundreds of other Wikis run by the Wikimedia Foundation. If you have an image that meets our copyright requirements, please upload it to commons .
Important note: The Wikimedia Foundation does not own copyright on Wikipedia article texts or illustrations. It is therefore pointless to email our contact addresses asking for permission to reproduce articles or images, even if rules at your company, school, or organization mandate that you ask web site operators before copying their content.
Jun 1, 2021 · If a figure is published in a paper and you cannot resort to a fair use clause, it may violate copyright even if it is cited correctly. That will also depend on the license of the figure on Wikipedia, and whether the publisher will agree to having a separately licensed figure in the paper.
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- This varies by the image. Be sure to check the license carefully. For example here's an image from Wikipedia: I can safely reproduce this because i...
- It's good to explain some concepts, but it is a paper you are writing to show what you are working on, it is not a book (nor a review paper, I gues...
- You might not be allowed to. When your paper is accepted you will later have to sign a copyright transfer form (content depending on the publisher)...
- Yes, you can use free images from Wikipedia. However, please validate whether the image has copyrighted. I suggest that you make your own image or...
- I agree with Silvado's answer "Technically you maybe can, but you shouldn't," but I'd like to elaborate an another part of this. Like it or not, if...
Many images are either in the public domain or licensed under copyleft licenses (such as the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License), but many are copyrighted and used on Wikipedia under the "fair use" clause of US copyright law.
Many people are willing to let their images be used for non-commercial purposes, but unfortunately Wikipedia cannot accept images with such a restriction. Similarly, because the GFDL license permits anyone to re-use our content, we can not allow content for which the owner has given permission only for Wikipedia itself to use.
