Template:Creative Commons

Table of Creative Commons licenses
This table below summarizes which Creative Commons image licenses are OK and not OK for Wikia, Wikipedia, or the Wikimedia Commons. It uses Flickr licensing as the starting point. By the way; Flickr can search its images by CC license. Run your mouse cursor over "Some rights reserved" on Flickr image pages to see the license in effect for that particular image.

The above table uses some common icons and abbreviations used on Flickr and elsewhere. "BY" is for attribution, as in a photo is "BY" a certain person. That means the image requires attribution, by saying who the image was created BY. SA is for Share Alike. Licenses with NC ( - non-commercial use only) or ND ( - no derivative works allowed to be created) 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) or Public Domain. See also: Wikipedia:Public domain. For more info: commons:Commons:Flickr images.