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This page is intended for those who wish to reuse material (text and/or graphics) from the Wikimedia projects — on their own website, in print, or otherwise. It focuses on Commons as this is explicitly a collection of reusable media.

The Wikimedia Foundation owns almost none of the content on Wikimedia sites — it is owned by the individual creators. However, almost all may be freely reused without individual permission under the terms of the particular license it is under — depending on what you want to do with it, you probably do not need to obtain a specific statement of permission from the Licensor.

While the copyright and licensing information supplied for each image is believed to be accurate, the Wikimedia Foundation does not provide any warranty regarding the copyright status or correctness of licensing terms. If you decide to reuse files from Commons, you should make your own determination of the copyright status of each image just as you would when obtaining images from other sources.

Warning on images of people: Even if a given image is pre-cleared with regard to copyright, this does not mean the image is pre-cleared with regards to possible personality rights, moral rights or model release, depending on jurisdiction. Take care with context when reusing images of people.

Упрощенная схема для материалов, лицензий и лицензионных обязательств при повторном использовании.

[edit] Лицензии, используемые на проектах Викимедии

[edit] Текст

Все тексты на всех проектах Викимедии, исключая Викиновости, принадлежат их авторам и лицензированы на условиях GNU Free Documentation License. Другие участники к тому же лицензируют свой вклад под дополнительными лицензиями.

Тексты на Викиновостях лицензированы на условиях Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 (CC-BY).

[edit] Изображения

Изображения, взятые с Викисклада, будут под свободной лицензией: возможно, GFDL, а возможно, какой-то иной. Смотрите Commons:Лицензирование.

Щёлкните на изображение в любом проектов и Вы получите дополнительную информацию об этом изображении на специальной странице. Там содержится информация от загрузившего этот файл пользователя, включающая следующие сведения: текущая лицензия, владелец авторских прав, а также условия лицензирования.

[edit] Fair use provision (does not apply to content held on Wikimedia Commons)

Внимание. Some content on Wikimedia servers is not available under a free license, particularly certain images on the English Wikipedia. Much of this is under the "fair use" provisions of U.S. copyright law. Before reusing such content yourself, you should check that your planned use of the material is consistent with the "fair use", "fair dealing" or equivalent provisions of locally applicable copyright law. Since this is a complex area of copyright law, you may wish to seek legal advice if you are not an expert in these areas.

[edit] Логотип фонда Викимедии

Логотип Викимедии и логотипы дочерних проектов (как, например, Википедии и Викисклада) — The Wikimedia Foundation logo and logos for particular projects (such as Wikipedia and Commons) are trademarks of and copyrighted by the Wikimedia Foundation. They are not generally available for other uses, though reuse in press or media about Wikimedia projects is explicitly permitted. Local "fair use" or "fair dealing" laws (e.g. for academic or critical purposes) may also apply in your jurisdiction. For all other uses, please contact the Foundation.

[edit] How to comply with the licenses

The sections below are summaries of the licenses, and how to comply.

If a work is published under a single license, all of the terms in that license must be followed. If a work is multi-licensed (that is, released under more than one license), re-users may choose which license's terms they wish to follow. Except for materials believed to be in the public domain, a link to the full text of the license(s) is included on the image description page. Some licenses also have a summary available.

Please read the full licenses for legal details. Neither the Wikimedia Foundation nor the creators of material on Wikimedia sites provide legal advice. If you need information about how a license applies to your particular situation, you should contact a suitable legal professional in your jurisdiction.

[edit] Public domain

Content marked as public domain (or local equivalent, e.g. "may be used for any purpose") is material believed to be out of copyright, either because of expiration of the original copyright, or because the material has been explicitly released into the public domain by its creator(s). Note that moral rights and other restrictions may still apply in some countries for some uses.

[edit] Лицензии GNU

[edit] GNU Free Documentation License

For simple redistribution, include the version you were given access to and its complete history with attribution, and include the GFDL (linked on the same website or reprinted in print).

Re-users are free to make derivative works and copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, even commercially. To comply, (a) release your version under the GFDL, (b) credit at least the five most substantial authors or content creators and (c) include a complete copy of the GFDL. In the case of derivative works you must also include the complete history section.

How you determine which five authors are considered to be substantial for the purpose of the GFDL is not defined in a legal sense. We suggest using one consistent method such as edit count, word count, hours contributed to the content, or something of a similar nature.

Any derivative works must stay under the GFDL.

When using a photo placed under the GFDL licence as part of a larger work, the larger work must also be released under GFDL for usage to be within the license terms. (We asked the Free Software Foundation, the creators of the license, for clarification of how much of e.g. a book counts as the "larger work" in these terms; they responded that no synopsis can substitute for what the text of the license says, and if in doubt the reuser should seek a proper legal opinion.)

[edit] GNU GPL и LGPL

GNU General Public License (GPL) и Lesser General Public License (LGPL) — лицензии для программного обеспечения, и обычно не используются для текста и медиа‐произведений. Однако, часть содержимого на Викискладе (например, значки и скриншоты компьютерных программ) — под GPL или LGPL. См. GPL.

For simple redistribution of such material, including altered versions, (a) release your version under the same license (b) supply the source version, i.e. something as editable as what you started with (e.g. image file, GIMP .xcf file, etc.).

Note that the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Free Document License (GFDL) are not compatible with each other. That means that content licensed under the GFDL as well as content licensed under the GPL can't be used together simultaneously in the same "work" — e.g. GPL computer program source embedded in GFDL explicatory text. However, a GPL image in a GFDL text page is usually regarded as an aggregation of two works rather than a single work.

[edit] Creative Commons

Most Creative Commons licenses are not free content licenses and will not be found as the sole allowable licence on Wikimedia Commons. The following are allowed and will be found here:

[edit] CC-BY

In the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY), re-users are free to make derivative works and copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, even commercially.

You must attribute the work to the author(s), and when re-using the work or distributing it, you must mention the license terms or a link to them. You may choose whether to make future modified versions available under CC-BY.

• CC-BY-3.0 page on Creative Commons
• Full legal text of this license

[edit] CC-SA

In the Creative Commons Share Alike license (CC-SA), re-users are free to make derivative works and copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, even commercially.

When re-using the work or distributing it, you must mention the license terms or a link to them. You must make your version available under CC-SA.

[edit] CC-BY-SA

In the Creative Commons Attribution and Share Alike license (CC-BY-SA), re-users are free to make derivative works and copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, even commercially.

When re-using the work or distributing it, you must attribute the work to the author(s) and you must mention the license terms or a link to them. You must make your version available under CC-BY-SA.

[edit] Другие свободные лицензии

Смотрите Commons:Copyright tags#Copyleft Attitude Licenses и Commons:Copyright tags#Other free tags.

[edit] Contacting the uploader or writer

If you wish to use content under terms other than the free license, or to absolutely verify copyright status if you feel you need to, the person who put it onto a Wikimedia server may be able to assist.

The writer of a piece of text will be the person who made the edit putting it in the text; see the "history" tab for the page. The uploader of an image or piece of media is the person who placed it on a Wikimedia server — either the original content creator or someone who brought free content here from elsewhere. The uploader is named on the "file history" portion of the image description page.

In some cases, you may be able to contact the uploader to find out more about an image's copyright status. The original creator of the image may be willing to grant additional permissions. Uploaders occasionally have access to higher resolution images than those present on the servers, particularly of their own work.

The Wikimedia Foundation generally cannot assist in locating users who have contributed material. You can try to contact them yourself in a number of ways:

1. Some have contact information, such as a name and address or phone number, on their user page.
2. Some can be contacted by email by clicking the "email this user" link listed in the toolbox on their user page.
3. You can leave a message on their talk page by clicking on the "discussion" tab at the top of the user page, and then clicking the "+" tab that appears next to the "edit" tab once the discussion page is visible. Enter your message and click "save." (Your message will then be visible to the public).

[edit] Hotlinking

This page assumes you wish to copy individual items for your use. For media files, don't hotlink. Please copy them to your own server.

Wikimedia generally does not allow 'hot spider' services, where each time someone performs a search on their site, the query is redirected to our site. Outside reusers should either copy the content (small amounts one item at a time, large amounts from the database dumps) or contact the Foundation regarding a live feed (which can be arranged as a paid service).