Are Wikipedia images copyright free?

You can use (free) images from Wikipedia on your own site, or anywhere you like. You can use images that are freely-licensed images, provided you comply with the individual image’s license terms. While all article text is licensed under the GFDL, free images have several free content licenses to choose from.

What does Creative Commons mean for images?

Creative Commons images are images that have been licensed so that they can be used for a variety of purposes. Using Creative Commons material is a great alternative when it is not possible or practical to get permission from the copyright owner.

Is Wikipedia a Creative Commons?

All text on Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike 3.0 Unported License, following a transition from the GFDL.

Does Creative Commons make sense?

Yes, Creative Commons does make sense. I have finished reading some interesting commentary about Creative Commons in The Scholarly Kitchen, a blog about academic publishing.

What is a creative common?

Creative Commons. noun. Sometimes creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons;a creative commons license.

What does the Wikimedia Commons’ logo signify?

Both Friedland and Stansifer have assigned copyrights to the logo to the Wikimedia Foundation . Whilst symbolizing a globe the new logo also loosely resembled a typeball as used in some electric typewriters, a former metaphor for the liberation of the process of professional writing.

What is Creative Commons Share Alike?

The Creative Commons icon for Share-Alike, a variant of the copyleft symbol. Share-alike is a copyright licensing term, originally used by the Creative Commons project, to describe works or licences that require copies or adaptations of the work to be released under the same or similar licence as the original.