I've seen people edit/crop in images which are in the public domain, and the new version comes up on the file history. How do you do that? Do you have to re-upload it in a special way?

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I know there are essentially two kinds of images uploaded onto Wiki – ones in the public domain and copyrighted ones. Are you allowed to re-use copyrighted ones on a page other than the one they were originally intended or crop them in? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The X-Files Investigator (talkcontribs)

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