Commons:Fair use

"Fair use" material is not allowed at the Commons

Wikimedia Commons does not accept fair use content, because fair use laws vary from country to country—thus, content deemed acceptable under, for instance, US fair use concepts (which are very broad) is not usable in the majority of other countries.

Also, fair use depends on the context the image (or other media) is used in. That is, something that can be used on one page as fair use would be a copyright violation on another page. Especially, fair use does not allow collecting and distributing the images in a media database such as Commons. This means that fair use simply does not apply to Commons.

Both issues are against the Commons policy to provide images that can be used by anyone anywhere for any purpose.

You may, however, submit such images to your local Wiki, if it allows fair use.