Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Fair use on Wikipedia only applies if it is not possible to replace such promotional image with a free image. {{Non-free promotional}}—for an image freely provided to promote an item, as in a promotional photo in a press packet {{Non-free poster}}—for poster images of reduced quality. Publicity photos. Fair use on Wikipedia only applies if ...
A list of websites that offer free images can be found at meta:Free image resources. If the place where you found the image does not declare a pre-existing free license, yet allows use of its content under terms commonly instituted by them, it must explicitly declare that commercial use and modification is permitted.
Generally, promotional images should not be used as they are not 'free' for reusers in the way our GFDL/Creative Commons text and majority of images are, and the taking and release of an equivalent image is to be highly recommended in every case.
Contents. Wikipedia:Non-free content/Publicity photos. This page is intended to hold fair and open discussion on the use of promotional photographs on Wikipedia. An outline of the current issue regarding the use of promotional photographs is detailed on this page below. Discussion of the issue may be found and partaken in on the talkpage.
In the case of replaceable images, it is possible that a promotional image will look better than free versions. However, it is important to teach editors that a difference in quality between promotional and free images is acceptable. Handle free image requests to the media, keeping a record of conversations between the WikiProject and third ...
For a file to be considered "free" under Wikipedia's Image use policy, the license must permit both commercial reuse and derivative works. 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 ...
This category has the following 58 subcategories, out of 58 total. Images that survived replaceability discussions (141 F) Non-free vehicle images (23 F) Non-free watercraft images (249 F) Non-free aircraft images (81 F) Album covers (5 C, 2 P, 212,690 F) Non-free images of art (8 C, 7,536 F)
Wikipedia's goal is to be a free encyclopedia. That not only means that it doesn't cost money to access; it also means that people are free to reuse its content in their own works, even commercial ones, so long as they provide credit and release any changes they make under the same free license. Therefore, the images used in Wikipedia ought to ...