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===Policy{{anchor|Policy-2}}===
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There is no automatic entitlement to use non-free content in an article or elsewhere on Wikipedia. Articles and other Wikipedia pages may, in accordance with [[Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Text|the guideline]], use brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted media, properly attributed or cited to its original source or author (as described by the [[WP:CITE|citation guideline]]), and specifically indicated as direct quotations via quotation marks, <nowiki><{{tag|blockquote></nowiki>|o}}, {{tlx|Quote}}, or a similar method. Other non-free content—including all copyrighted images, audio and video clips, and other media files that lack a free content license—may be used on the English Wikipedia only where all 10 of the following criteria are met.
 
# {{/span|1}}'''No free equivalent.''' Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose.