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== Copyrights ==
===<span id="IMAGE"></span>I have, or can get, special permission to copy an image or article to Wikipedia. Is it OK to do that?===
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:Unless the article you want to copy to Wikipedia is covered by [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License]] (CC-BY-SA), a CC-BY-SA-compatible license or is in the public domain, it cannot be used on Wikipedia. Images, too, must be public domain or licensed under one of allowed licenses at [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]]. You have to ask the copyright holder of the material to license it so it can be used. See [[Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission]]. Under very limited conditions we can use copyrighted material even if it is not licensed compatibly; see [[Wikipedia:Non-free content]] for how and when. 
:The text of Wikipedia is covered by the (CC-BY-SA) and, in most cases, the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Images are covered by various free licenses (see the [[wmf:Resolution:Licensing_policy|Wikimedia Foundation Licensing Policy]]).

===I have an out-of-copyright image (or text) that is reproduced in an in-copyright book. Can I scan / type it into Wikipedia?===
: Providing they haven't altered the image then they can't claim a copyright on it. If it was in the public domain before they used it, it's still in the public domain afterward.

===Does using a [[GIF]] image in Wikipedia violate its patent?===
:No. The patent of the [[LZW]] compression algorithm used with the GIF format has expired.