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NC Commons
Welcome to NC Commons a project by Wiki Project Med which has collected 8,671,105 NC or ND licensed media files available for non-commercial use or use as is.
Editing
Editing is currently restricted to invitation only. OAuth; however, is functional such that you can log on with your MediaWiki credentials and request editing privileges at the community pump.
Images
Among the images/files (png, gif, jpg, jpeg, svg, and others) available are:
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COVID-19 as seen by chest X-ray, CC NC, Radiopaedia
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President Jacob Zuma, Atul Gupta and Eastern Cape Premier Noxolo Kieviet, CC BY NC, South African Government
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Melanoma, CC NC ND, DermNet NZ
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Sources of content
NC / ND
- Khan academy (NC)
- TED talks (NC)
- Hesperian (NC)
- Journals from openi 3.7 million[1]
- MedPix [2]
- WikiHow
- The POCUS Atlas
- Government of Canada None commercial
- Procedural videos under a CC BY or CC BY SA NC license (says different things in different places)
- Groundup
- Medical Aid Films CC BY NC ND 3.0
- Enciclopedia Delle Donne (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- Medical Graphics (CC BY ND 4.0)
- Pediatric Imaging (CC BY SA NC 4.0)
CC BY
Done
Done GovernmentZA Flickr (ND 2.0) -> Category:Photographs by GovernmentZA- Done Dermnet NZ (NC and ND) -> Category:DermNet_images
- Done Derm Per email images are CC BY NC
- Done USask -> Category:UndergradImaging
- Done Radiopaedia (NC) - project -> Category:Radiopaedia images
- Done EyeRounds (CC BY NC ND) -> Category:EyeRounds (May 2024)
- Done USAID NC licensed -> Category:USAID (May 2024)
Licensing
There are many misconceptions around ND and NC licenses. We will try to address some of them here:
NC
Creative Commons specifically defines NonCommercial (NC) as "not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation". Others state "they cannot sell it or profit from it except to recuperate the costs of printing, for example." This would indicate that an NGO fundraising from a banner on an article containing NC content would be permissible.
ND
ND does not permit "adaptations" though does permit "modifications". Per Creative Commons "Merely changing the format never creates a derivative" and "Generally, a modification rises to the level of an adaptation under copyright law when the modified work is based on the prior work but manifests sufficient new creativity to be copyrightable, such as a translation of a novel from one language to another, or the creation of a screenplay based on a novel."
So changing the resolution of an image is permitted. As are insignificant or minor changes such as trimming non-contributory white space around the edge of an image.
Freedom of Panorama
We also allow openly licensed material regardless of Freedom of Panorama, though will remove it upon request of the rights holder.
Technical efforts
This site is growing out of Wikimedia Commons. Thus for the first bit there will be a number of broken or non existent templates. Please have patience.