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| style="font-size:x-large; line-height:normal" | There are various tools available for quickly uploading pictures from Flickr at [[Commons:Flickr_files#Uploading_images]]</span>.
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| style="font-size:larger; line-height:normal; padding-left:5%; padding-right:5%" | The Wikimedia Commons is a collection of [[Commons:Commons:Licensing|freely licensed]] images shared by all Wikimedia projects.  When you upload an image to Commons, it will automatically be available here under the same filename.
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| style="font-size:x-large; text-align:center;" | '''Uploading a work found on Flickr'''
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|<big>This guidance only applies to uploading a '''work found on [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=commderiv&ss=2&ct=6&mt=all&w=all&adv=1 Flickr]''' created by someone else (not you).</big>

In any image page in [https://www.flickr.com Flickr] there is "License" section on the right hand side of the page. This section contains the copyright information which is important for you.

Flickr images have [https://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/license 7 different license options]. There is also a public domain collection, [https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage Flickr: The Commons], uploaded by participating organizations. 2 of the 6 [https://creativecommons.org/about/licenses Creative Commons (CC) licensing options] are OK here:
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|[[File:Cc-by new white.svg|25px]] '''BY''' means the image license requires [https://creativecommons.org/about/licenses attribution], as in an image is "BY" a certain person.<br/>[[File:Cc-sa white.svg|25px]] '''SA''' is for [https://creativecommons.org/about/licenses  "Share Alike"].<br/>[[File:Cc-nc white.svg|25px]] '''NC''' is for [https://creativecommons.org/about/licenses non-commercial] use only and is '''NOT''' OK.<br/>[[File:Cc-nd white.svg|25px]] '''ND''' is [https://creativecommons.org/about/licenses no derivative] works and is '''NOT''' OK.
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|If the image is not OK, consider [[commons:Commons:Email templates|asking the author to release their work under a free license]] such as [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 CC-BY] (Creative Commons Attribution license), or [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC-BY-SA] (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike). See also [[commons:Commons:OTRS|Commons:OTRS]].
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|Flickr can [https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons search its images by license]. Click the "see more" links for each license. See the [https://www.flickr.com/search/advanced advanced search] also. The Creative Commons search options are at the bottom. 

You may wish to read the Wikimedia Commons' [[commons:Commons:Flickr images/Guide|guide]] to help check if the images you are uploading are permitted. Here is a '''[[commons:Commons:Copyright tags#Free Creative Commons licenses|list]]''' and '''[[commons:Commons:Creative Commons copyright tags|table]]''' of old and new versions of Creative Commons licenses that are accepted at the [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]]. 
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'''''Note:''' For questions or comments about this upload page please go to its '''[[Wikipedia talk:Upload/Flickr|talk page]].'''''

<big>'''[{{fullurl:Commons:Special:Upload|uselang=fromflickr}} Upload at Commons]''' (recommended)</big>

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[[Special:Upload|Upload locally]] (not recommended)