Commons talk:Non-copyright restrictions

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How to avoid trademark traps during Wikimedia events

Usually during a computer presentation (like during an hackaton) a single organizer may share a single laptop, and all presentations will use that, so, if it uses Microsoft Windows or macOS or similar proprietary things that have a big amount of trademarked logos, these logos usually land in the recordings, and these recordings usually require extra post-production for "trademark cleanup".

In short, I don't know if this link should be somehow mentioned somewhere, from a Wikimedia Commons' project page, to proactively avoid this kind of situations:

m:Wikimedians_for_software_freedom#Talks_and_Showcases_proprietary_environments

(Don't take this page too seriously, it's just a request for comments)

Thanks for any opinion about how to encourage people in avoiding trademark traps, also during events bozz (talk) 14:22, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Need a section about media that are sensitive/classified

I'm fairly sure that I've seen material on Commons with a non-crossedover secrecy marking, and I'll see if I can find it again later. But regardless, a state giving sensitivity and classification to a piece of media and thus making it subject to non-copyright restrictions is a topic we should discuss here and warn about. If no one is opposed, I'll write such a section in the coming days. Perhaps even create a template for file pages. Rose Abrams (talk) 10:17, 20 February 2026 (UTC)