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Non-free content on Wikimedia projects
This page examines the status of non-free content (like fair use) on Wikimedia Projects. Note that the Wikimedia licensing policy requires that any project allowing fair use implement an exemption doctrine policy.

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[edit] Copyright policies

[edit] Wikipedia

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
bg/Bulgarian no no
ca/Catalan yes yes Continguts no lliures Narrowly defined circumstances when no other option is or will be available and when it is necessary to understand the subject; cannot be used for decorative purposes; strongly discouraged for living people
cs/Czech yes yes Licenční politika u souborů logos used with permission
da/Danish yes no
de/German yes no
el/Greek yes yes Βικιπαίδεια:Κριτήρια εύλογης χρήσης Fairuse criteria, not a new policy Allowed for logos, album covers, paintings and such, movieshots, deceased persons. Disallowed for living people and/or reproducible content. The criteria are the same with those on English wikipedia, based on US copyright law. The greek law has a provision that short excerpts of a work can be used for presentation, critical analysis, commentary etc.
en/English yes yes Non-free content criteria Narrowly defined circumstances, strongly discouraged for images of living people.
et/Estonian yes yes Mittevaba sisu kriteeriumid Logos; media files specially allowed to be used in the Estonian Wikipedia.
eo/Esperanto yes yes Regularo pri justa uzo Narrowly defined circumstances. Adapted from the English version.
es/Spanish no
fi/Finnish yes yes Sitaattioikeus Non-free images or music samples are allowed if 1) they are not replaceable by free content considering the purpose which they are serving in the article and 2) they are used in accordance with the quotation right of the Finnish copyright law; non-free images of living people which are only used to represent them are prohibited.
fr/French yes yes Exceptions au droit d'auteur logotypes, coats of arms, stamps and money
hr/Croatian yes yes Politika doktrine izuzetaka
ia/Interlingua no
it/Italian yes yes EDP per it.wiki
ja/Japanese yes yes 屋外美術を被写体とする写真の利用方針 Policy on usage of photographs portraying outdoor artwork. Concerns freedom of panorama. §46 of Japanese copyright law allows non-commercial reproduction of artistic works located permanently in open places accessible by public, or where it could easily be seen by public.
ko/Korean yes no Finished drafting EDP and waiting for review
lt/Lithuanian yes yes Fairuse
lv/Latvian yes yes Godprātīga lietošana
nl/Dutch yes no
no/Norwegian (Bokmål) yes no
pl/Polish yes no
pt/Portuguese no
ro/Romanian yes yes in development
(but don't hold your breath)
Utilizare cinstită		 The current policy basically "redirects" to the US copyright law, since this was the de facto standard since the beginning of the project (for completeness, that isn't actually a policy -- it's the Wikipedia page referenced from the fairuse template; we rely on the en.wiki policy by default). The Romanian copyright law allows for similar fair use exemptions, so there are no real legal issues, therefore there is no significant interest within the community to resolve this. Of course, IANAL. Contact: Gutza.
ru/Russian yes yes Добросовестное использование
simple/Simple English no No Image Uploads but free use sound uploads are allowed.
sr/Serbian yes yes Политика доктрине изузећа
sv/Swedish no
ta/Tamil yes yes in development
tr/Turkish yes yes Adil kullanım politikası Strongly discouraged for images of living people.
uk/Ukrainian yes yes Критерії добропорядного використання similar to enwiki
vi/Vietnamese yes yes Tiêu chuẩn cho nội dung không tự do similar to enwiki
zh/Chinese yes yes 合理使用準則 Similar to enwiki; strongly discouraged for images of living people. A bot removes all EDP images from non-article namespaces.

[edit] Wiktionary

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
de/German yes no
en/English sysops no
es/Spanish sysops no
sv/Swedish no

[edit] Wikisource

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
en/English yes no
fr/French yes yes Respect du copyright unfree media strongly discouraged
pt/Portuguese yes no unfree media strongly discouraged
zh/Chinese yes no

[edit] Wikibooks

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
en/English yes yes WB:MEDIA Logos, screenshots, banknotes, etc. when used to illustrate the topic of a module and no free alternative is available.
pt/Portuguese yes no

[edit] Wikiquote

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
bg/Bulgarian no no Comment: Local uploads disabled via CSS

[edit] Wikinews

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
pl/Polish yes yes Dozwolony użytek
ru/Russian no
zh/Chinese no

[edit] Wikiversity

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
el/Greek yes under development

[edit] Other projects

Language Local
uploads		 Non-free
content		 Exemption Doctrine Policy EDP summary
Commons yes no
Incubator sysops unknown
Meta-Wiki yes no Fair use, currently proposed
Wikispecies yes no Image guidelines

[edit] See also

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