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Permission: Who or what law or policy gives permission to post on Wikipedia with the selected image copyright tag; Date the image was created, if available; a full date, if available, is better than simply the year; Location at which the image was created, if applicable and available. This can be as specific as a GPS-derived longitude and latitude.
Example: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or later Some people have complained that the GFDL is too hard to interpret and too hard for reusers of small works to comply with because the license can be longer than the work covered by the license.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify Wikipedia's text under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and, unless otherwise noted, the GNU Free Documentation License, unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts.
Permission to use an image only in a specific Wikipedia article is insufficient. Make sure the owner of the copyright understands this, and have them (and yourself) review the information at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials , which includes instructions on how to properly document permissions for Wikipedia to use these images.
For images, you are not limited to CC BY-SA: any free license will do. If the photographer's identity is unclear (for instance, if an image was uploaded stating the photographer's name and claiming a free license, but the image cannot be found on the web), ask them to confirm that the image is theirs.
Viral post claims Facebook can use your photo without permission and that you have to post a notice on your page to stop it. The viral post is wrong.
Additionally, a work based on an existing work is simply considered a copy unless it was made with the express permission of the original copyright holder. So even if you take a screenshot from a game or movie and heavily edit it, the resulting image is still owned by the original copyright holder and cannot be released under a free license ...
For sample requests see Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission. Your request should: Introduce Wikipedia; Mention which image you want to use (with link) Mention where you want to use the image (with link) Ask for permission to release the image in the public domain or under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License