Are Wikipedia images public domain?

User-created images. Wikipedia encourages users to upload their own images. All user-created images must be licensed under a free license, such as a Creative Commons license, or released into the public domain, which removes all copyright and licensing restrictions.

Can I use images from Wikipedia commercially?

The English Wikipedia sometimes inserts images on the basis of the copyright principle of “fair use”. However, this does not allow use for commercial purposes. Therefore, always click on the file description to see which conditions you have to satisfy for reuse.

Is Wikipedia in the public domain?

The text of Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Wikipedia editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses. The licenses Wikipedia uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely.

Which images are in public domain?

The image is assigned to the public domain through a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license or similar release….

  • Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is one of the largest public domain images resources.
  • Unsplash.
  • Flickr Commons.
  • Public Domain Pictures.
  • Magdeleine.
  • Old Book Illustrations.
  • ISO Republic.
  • Public Domain Vectors.

How do you tell if an image is in the public domain?

A photograph could be in the public domain in the US for any of the following reasons:

  1. The photo was created by the U.S. government.
  2. The photo lacks a copyright notice.
  3. The photo’s copyright has expired.
  4. The photo is not eligible for copyright protection.
  5. The photo has been dedicated to the public domain.

Is Wikipedia a bad website?

Because Wikipedia cannot be considered a reliable source, the use of Wikipedia is not accepted in many schools and universities in writing a formal paper, and some educational institutions have banned it as a primary source while others have limited its use to only a pointer to external sources.

What do you need to know about GoldenDict?

GoldenDict is an open-source dictionary program that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages. It allows the use of several popular dictionary file formats simultaneously and without conversion. The project aims to create a feature-rich dictionary search program.

What kind of file format does GoldenDict use?

Use of WebKit for an accurate articles’ representation, complete with all formatting, colors, images and links. Support of multiple dictionary file formats, namely: Babylon .BGL files, complete with images and resources

Is the Wikipedia page in the public domain?

Public domain image resources is a copy of the master Wikipedia page at Meta, which lists a number of sources of public domain images on the Web. Public Domain images should be marked with the Public Domain Mark 1.0.

Where can I find article style in GoldenDict?

The article text you see is actually an HTML page. It has its own CSS style which can be arbitrarily altered. To do so, you need to create a special text file article-style.css, located in Linux in ~/.goldendict, and in Windows in %APPDATA%\\GoldenDict. You can put arbitrary CSS code there.

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