Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
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All images uploaded must have a note on the image description page saying how it may be used. (No new images may be uploaded here.)
If a picture can be used with a licence, please say what that licence is and what that licence lets you do.
If you think a picture can be used because it is Fair use, you must say why.
If an image can only be used if you write who owns it, make sure you say who owns it.
Images under the GFDL must say they are under GFDL and you must give the proper attribution.
Images can have more than one tag if more than one thing applies.
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[edit] Tagging options
Note: not all of these exist on the Simple English Wikipedia yet. If you want to use one for an image, please copy a tag from another Wikipedia and adapt it for Simple English.
The English Wikipedia has all of the following tags.
- {{no source}} - for an unmarked image (view)
- {{fairuse}} - for an image with source information but no notice about permission, album covers, etc (view)
- {{copyrighted}} - where we have wikipedia specific permission (view)
- {{noncommercial}} - where there is general noncommercial permission (view)
- {{PermissionAndFairUse}} - where we have permission, and US fair use also applies (view)
- {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} - where anyone is allowed to use an image, but it is not one of the specific licenses listed below. (view)
- {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}} - where anyone is allowed to use an image, subject to certain specified conditions: provided that... (e.g.) the photographer is credited. (view)
[edit] Public domain
- {{PD}} - for when author has put into the public domain or the author died over 70 years ago (pre-1934) (view)
- {{PD-US}} - for copyright-expired images in the US (mainly those published pre-1923) (view)
[edit] GNU Licenses
- GNU Free Documentation License {{GFDL}}
- GNU Public License {{GPL}}
- Lesser GNU Public License {{LGPL}}
[edit] Creative Commons Licenses
- Attribution {{cc-by}}
- Attribution 2.0 {{cc-by-2.0}}
- ShareAlike {{cc-sa}}
- Attribution-Sharealike {{cc-by-sa}}
- Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 {{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
[edit] Why this is done
- What is "fair use" in one country might not be "fair use" in another country. The tags help people who want to reuse these images in other countries find out which ones are legal for them to use.
- It's harder to create good images than good text. This makes people want to break the copyright laws more often. Because of this, we should be more worried about checking images are allowed here.
- It is easy to rewrite text that turns out to be copyrighted, but harder (though possible) to do the same for images.
- Saying where an image is from is a good thing to do. If you write that someone let you use a picture, they are more likely to let you use other ones in future.
- Where Wikipedians have taken the images, they should have a bit of fame! Putting some text on the image description page that they took it themselves, and they license it under the GFDL, is a good way to do that.