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Uploading a work found on Flickr

This guidance only applies to uploading a work found on Flickr created by someone else (not you).

In any image page in Flickr there is "License" section on the right hand side of the page. This section contains the copyright information which is important for you.

Flickr images have 7 different license options. There is also a public domain collection, Flickr: The Commons, uploaded by participating organizations. 2 of the 6 Creative Commons (CC) licensing options are OK here:

Statement on image page.	License	OK here?
© All rights reserved	Copyrighted	NOT OK
Some rights reserved	CC-BY-NC-ND	NOT OK
Some rights reserved	CC-BY-NC-SA	NOT OK
Some rights reserved	CC-BY-NC	NOT OK
Some rights reserved	CC-BY-ND	NOT OK
Some rights reserved	CC-BY	OK
Some rights reserved	CC-BY-SA	OK
No known copyright restrictions.	Public Domain	OK

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"BY" means the image license requires attribution, as in an image is "BY" a certain person.

SA is for "Share Alike". Licenses with NC (

- non-commercial use only) or ND (

- no derivative works) are NOT OK here. If the image is not OK, consider asking the author to release their work under a free license such as CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution license), or CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike). See also Commons:OTRS.

Flickr can search its images by license. Click the "see more" links for each license. See the advanced search also. The Creative Commons search options are at the bottom.

You may wish to read the Wikimedia Commons' guide to help check if the images you are uploading are permitted. Here is a list and table of old and new versions of Creative Commons licenses that are accepted at the Wikimedia Commons.