Creative Commons Images
Wikipedia is not allowing us to upload Creative Commons photos from Cinema Politica - what do we need to do?
Wikipedia is not allowing us to upload Creative Commons photos from Cinema Politica - what do we need to do?
When a work uses a Creative Commons license, it includes up to four different restrictions:
BY - Attribution is required.
SA - Modifications of the work must be released with the same license it uses.
NC - Commercial use of the work is not allowed.
ND - Use is permitted, but not modification.
Only BY and SA are accepted on Wikimedia Commons. There are a variety of reasons for that, but because Cinema Politica uses BY-NC on their Flickr stream (at least for all those I checked), they violate the Wikimedia licensing rules and will have to be deleted, unfortunately.
There's a bit more about this on page 10 of the Illustrating Wikipedia handout.
Asked: 2017-04-04 18:20:39 -0500
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Last updated: Jul 25 '17