wikipedia copyright of images, articles, ...?

[ernest1a]

Simple question: Can I copy articles and images from wikipedia if I write in my website that source is wikipedia or I need extra permition?

It writes:
Copyleft means that every single author, editor, illustrator, mapmaker, factchecker and photographer who puts their work into Wikipedia gives you the right to read, copy, print, save, download, read aloud, project, modify, email, distribute, sell, photocopy and correct their work however you want to.

The only restrictions are that if you distribute it, you must give attribution to the creators, and if you derive new work from it, you must give the same rights to users of that work.

So actually I can copy any work and use it in my business if I write under article a source, without any permittion?

[ewomack]

Most, if not all, Wikipedia images have copyright information on the image page. Click on the image and scroll down to see the information. It should tell you if the picture is public domain or reserved.

[ernest1a]

and what is about text?

[waffles]

Based on what you said, and assuming that it's all correct, I'd say you're fine. Maybe not the best thing in the world for a business to be using Wikipedia stuff, but not a legal issue.

Link to the article you used though and don't just mention that you used Wikipedia.

[www.errorforum.com]

jst mention the source

[Grumps]

people use the for assignments all the time

[MakeYourFirst$$$]

Don't take advantage

[dkodigital]

Another thing about copying text from Wikipedia - if you are a website owner and you use that text, a search engine may not give your site as high a rating in it's index if your text isn't unique. Google will mark you down and may even exclude you from it's indexes.

dkodigital

[www.errorforum.com]

Originally Posted by dkodigital

Another thing about copying text from Wikipedia - if you are a website owner and you use that text, a search engine may not give your site as high a rating in it's index if your text isn't unique. Google will mark you down and may even exclude you from it's indexes.

dkodigital

how abt social book marking sites..they dnt have unique content its all shared by webmasters..

[dkodigital]

I'm not sure about the social bookmarking sites. Google may treat them differently, but if you want to make it to the top of the search engines, unique, original and quality content is king.

dkodigital