User:This, that and the other/edp
Policy[edit]
Non-free content on Meta—including all copyrighted images, audio and video clips, and other media files that lack a free content license—may only be used in a limited set of circumstances.
(a) Brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted media may be used. They must be specifically indicated as direct quotations via quotation marks, <blockquote>, or a similar method, and must be properly attributed or cited to their original source or author.
(b) The following categories of non-free content may be uploaded on Meta:
- Reports, financial statements, letters, and other documents related to the operation and governance of the Wikimedia Foundation and its associated organizations, which were created by an external entity that did not release them under a free license, or which cannot be freely licensed for some other reason.
- Images which cannot be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons due to lack of freedom of panorama in the jurisdiction in which they were taken, but which are otherwise licensed under a free license.
- Non-free content meeting one of these criteria may only be uploaded to Meta if
- they are required as part of a process that takes place on this wiki (for example, a grant proposal or Wikimania bid), and
- there is no possibility of replacing the content with a freely-licensed equivalent, and
- the copyright holder has granted permission for the file to be uploaded to Meta, and
- they are meaningfully linked from at least one page, whether by transclusion, file inclusion, or wikilinking. (Links from housekeeping pages, such as deletion requests and Meta:Babel, are not considered "meaningful".)
(c) Other non-free content not covered by (a) or (b) above is not permitted on Meta at this time. Such content may be deleted without notice.
File description page[edit]
The media description page must identify the source of the material and evidence of permission to use the media, supplemented, where possible, with information about the author, publisher and copyright holder, and year of copyright.