The Case for NC Commons | #Wikimania2023
Channel: Wikimedia Foundation
Date: 2023-12-01

A discussion workshop on the possibility of allowing CC-NC and CC-ND copyright (copyleft) licenced images hosted on NC Commons to be usable on Wikipedia. The organisers argue that it enrich Wikipedia by allowing hundreds of thousands of new images to be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles at little or no additional risk to Wikipedia.

Although Creative Commons (CC) licenced images can be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles only images licenced under specific CC licence types can be be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. CC licence types such as non-derivative (ND) or non-commercial (NC) can not be uploaded thereby excluding millions of images from being used on Wikipedia unless the uploaded makes a laborious and often unsuccessful Fair Use rational. NC Commons seeks to overcome this problem by allowing NC and ND Creative Common images to be hosted in a central repository which the hoped-for eventual use on Wikipedia. This workshop seeks to discuss, unpack, clarify and hopefully resolve the reasons for and against integrating NC Commons into Wikipedia.

Presenter: Douglas Ian Scott (User:Discott), James Heilman

Presentation slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Case_for_NC_Commons.pdf