File talk:IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere LR.jpg

As I am not familiar with this process, I am requesting help from the media copyright questions desk.Oceanflynn (talk) 22:27, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

The response is here on the media copyright questions page.

explained that the image can be used in Wikipedia under fair use content but not in Wikimedia Commons. They are "really separate projects with their own respective policies and guidelines. There's lots of overlap, but there are some important difference as well. Commons will not accept any fair use content."

See Wikipedia:Copyrights. User:Marchjuly explained that, the "resolution of a file really only matters if you upload it locally to Wikipedia as Wikipedia:Non-free content (see Wikipedia:Non-free content for more details); it doesn't matter as much with respect to Commons or freely-licensed/public domain files uploaded to Wikipedia and high resolution images are generally preferred over low resolution images. Most cover art (e.g. book covers, album covers) and logos (e.g. sports team, company) are things which are considered to be protected by copyright and Commons will not accept them unless it can be shown that the original copyright holder has released them under an acceptable free license; Wikipedia will accept them as non-free content, however, but only when their use(s) meet Wikipedia's non-free content use policy. The file you uploaded to Wikipedia as File:IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere LR.jpg seems OK, but it might need to be further reduced in size. This file, however, will eventually be tagged for speedy deletion per speedy deletion criterion F5 if it's not used in at least one article as required by non-free content use criterion #7."

User:Marchjuly clarified that "Non-free content can only be used in the article namespace per non-free content use criterion #9; so, this file cannot be displayed anywhere else on Wikipedia. Non-free files are uploaded locally to (English) Wikipedia which means that it you want to use them on another Wikimedia Foundation project, like WikiNews, you will have to upload the file to Commons or locally to the other project. Each project has their own policies and guidelines, however, and not all of them accept non-free content per meta:Non-free content."

Thank you User:Marchjuly for responding so quickly.Oceanflynn (talk) 02:30, 28 September 2019 (UTC)