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A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, ...
Attribution To re-distribute text on Wikipedia in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the ...
See Wikipedia:Non-free content and below for more information on when and how copyrighted text and images can be used on Wikipedia. Unless copyrighted images and text meet Wikipedia's non-free content allowance, we can't use them or create "derivative works" of them.
Using a large portion of the copyrighted work is less likely to be fair use. However, courts have occasionally found use of an entire work to be fair use, and in other contexts, using even a small amount of a copyrighted work was determined not to be fair use because the selection was an important part—or the "heart"—of the work.
Wikipedia:Image copyright tags: for a list of common templates and categories for permissible and prohibited materials. Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations : What to look for if you're unsure whether something is permissible.
A copyright holder cannot both retain non-free copyright elsewhere over their content, and license it for one-time use here with their permission, because Wikipedia's licensing scheme requires that its readers and end users be able to reuse the content under the free license notice that is posted at the bottom of every page.
To use copyrighted material on Wikipedia, it is not enough that we have permission to use it on Wikipedia alone. That's because Wikipedia itself states all its material may be used by anyone, for any purpose. So we have to be sure all material is in fact licensed for that purpose, whoever provided it.
In general, this is not much of an issue on Wikipedia. The Coca-Cola logo (the quintessential example of a trademarked but not copyrighted logo) is used on the Coca-Cola page, but not the Pepsi Cola page – so no trademark problems result. For Wikipedia purposes, a "public domain" image does not need a non-free content rationale in order to be ...
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