Wikimapia:Copyrights

As Wikimapia's content is user-driven, we recommend that you provide your own photographs and images. This means that you are the author of the photos or images, and therefore you own the copyright to them, you are providing them under a user license, or you are releasing them into the public domain. If you do not attribute a license to your photos, then Wikimapia will assume that the photo(s) you submit are copyright of the uploader if and only if you have taken the photograph.

Keep in mind that just because something is freely available (on the web, in books, or your friend's pictures, et cetera) does NOT mean it is public domain, nor yours to upload to Wikimapia. If the images are in the public domain, please state the reasons why in a comment, and provide a source (a link from Wikipedia's photo page, for example) stating why this is so. You cannot submit any work other than your own creations into the public domain, unless it falls under a category defined by law as public domain.

If any (free) licenses exist which permit modification of the image, then please attribute the owner/supplier of the work with a source, as defined in the license agreement. "Derivative works" (collages and/or modifications of copyrighted images) are still the copyright of the original author, and does not give you the right to submit the work as your own.

If there is any debate or lack of proof about the copyright or attribution of the image or content (description in tags etc), they will be removed from Wikimapia.