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All The Tropes:Uploading and Adding an Image to a Page: Difference between revisions
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** If you got the image from the original artist and they gave you permission to use it on the wiki, choose the very last option, "This file is copyrighted, but use is permitted by the copyright holder". Don't forget whatever license terms they specified, if any.
* If you have the license information from the website where you got the image, scroll through and pick the entry that matches it. If you can't find anything that looks right, don't panic.
* If you got the image off Wikipedia or Wikimedia,<ref name="Wikimedia" /> pick that option -- and you'll need to go back to the image's page and get the license terms explicitly given there if you didn't already get it all earlier. Copy them into the Summary field, along with the code
* If the image is old enough to no longer be under copyright -- which is probably older than you think, because US copyright terms start at 70 years these days -- or the original creator ''explicitly'' gave up his copyright, choose "Public Domain".
* If nothing matches the information you got from the original website, or you found nothing at all, pick the first option, "This will be used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US law.", also simply just called "Fair Use". This option is almost always safe to use if you have no other information at hand, but it requires that the wiki use the image on a page somewhere. If an image is marked "Fair Use" but isn't used, it will probably be deleted by an administrator sooner or later.
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