Forum:Can any image on Commons be copied to a wikia?

I don't understand this real well- I have operated with the understanding that we may freely copy over any material on WP, including images. But some of these images do not have PD or GFDL, but stuff like Cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0, or 1.0. We are moving on the order of thousands of images (coats of arms and other genealogy associated fiddle faddle).

Question- which do I do:
 * 1) If not PD, Mark them as GFDL, making note of their earlier permission (CC2.5 or whatever)
 * 2) Delete anything not GFDL, PD, or Fairuse
 * 3) copy the CC2.x templates and similar, but only allow them to be applied to commons or WP sourced images.

Until I hear which of these options I should follow. my default is to continue to copy anything we need off of commons, but not to copy over the cc based rights templates. (As I understand it, these are not compatible with Wikia policy on PD/GFDL/or FairUse only licensing tags).
 * ~  Ph l o x  05:33, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Nope, you're a bit mixed up in things. What allows us to copy images is not that they are uploaded on Wikipedia, it's what license they are under. We can use images under any free-use license. And in some cases fair use images if there is a proper rationale. The truth is that you are actually allowed to use cc-by-sa images more than you are allowed to use Fair use images. The truth is that while an image may be Fair use on Wikipedia there is the possibility that the fair use will not apply to your wiki and use of the image would be considered copyright infringement.

You should copy the various Free-use image license templates to the wiki. Please do not mark anything as GFDL if it is not listed as GFDL because that would be relicensing a image which is most likely not relicenseable and would be illegal. Don't delete images that are not under those licenses because most of them are actually more valid for use than Fairuse images actually are. And images other than ones on commons and Wikipedia can use the templates, what matters is what the image is actually licensed under. You should check for that information from whatever location you have as a source for the image; For example KDE-Look lists the license that the author listed the work under, Flickr uses CC licenses, and some other sites use various licenses.

The most common free-licenses you will see used are GFDL, GPL, LGPL, CC-BY (SA is ok, but not NC or ND), Artistic-2, FAL, BSD, and there are a few others. Though you might not really need all of them, I actually built some combined license templates. My template works for all CC licenses (even the ones you can't use ^_^) and gives them all the ability to use the various /licensed/self licensing/licensed by another user/ stuff. And my template includes most of the Fair-use licenses other than CC that you will see in use. Though both of those use my Box class for styling so they may not work that great for you. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Oct 27, 2007 @ 05:54 (UTC)


 * So, most Gaming wikis (including the french GW Wikia) are somewhat illegal because they have so much FairUse screen captured images ? ­­­&#8212; TulipVorlax