Caregiving and dementia/Wiki training/Copyright

Copyright and creative commons

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

• Introduction to free licenses (Wikipedia basics)
• Useful tips for uploading to Wiki Commons - pdf
• Wikiversity:Copyrights