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What is Wikimedia Commons?
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Wikimedia Commons is one of the largest
repositories of multimedia files online.
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Its servers house images, videos,
audios, and documents of all kinds.
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What can be and cannot be
uploaded to Commons?
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Wikimedia Commons cannot accept works
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created by or based
on the works of others,
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including photographs of such works.
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This means that you cannot
upload other people's works,
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this includes materials such as:
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logos, record covers, vinyl,
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CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, promotional photos,
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screenshots of TV shows,
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movies, DVDs, and computer programs,
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drawings of characters
from books, TV or movies,
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even if you drew them yourself,
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most images published on the Internet,
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portraits of yourself
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without the permission
of the photographer who made the image.
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What are the exceptions?
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You can upload other people's works
if the author has granted permission
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to be used, copied, modified and sold,
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that is,
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if the author authorizes the publication
under a compatible license.
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All works that by law
or international treaty
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are already in the public domain.
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You can also upload your own work,
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as long as we do it
through a compatible license
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and it is relevant to be
on Wikimedia Commons.
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What licenses can be used?
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Creative Commons licenses
can be used mainly,
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as long as they allow the free
distribution and use of the works,
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including their commercialization.
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In addition, the use of FAL
(Free Art License),
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GFDL, and Open Data Commons
database licenses are allowed.
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What types of files can be uploaded?
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WebM and Ogg video.
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Ogg audio (FLAC, Vorbis, Speex).
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JPG, PNG, SVG, GIF and TIFF image.
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Djvu and PDF documents.
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These formats proposed
by Wikimedia Commons are open and free.
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This work by Wikimedia Argentina
is licensed
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under a Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License.