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Notices for use on Image pages defining copyright status.

Note: In some countries (including the United States of America and the United Kingdom), the mere creation of a work establishes copyright over it, and there is no legal requirement to register or declare copyright ownership.

If in doubt always give the precise source and the creator's name (if known). Better yet: if in doubt, don't upload.

This list is not exhaustive. If you believe that there should be others please import or create and note here (if you leave a note on my talk page I'll try to sort it).

Some of these templates require user input; please check before using.

To use one of these templates, just (or copy) its name and put it in curly brackets.

Template:foobar is used by typing {{foobar}}

To use templates with extra parameters that are required or optional, follow the instructions they provide.

[edit] The list

  • Template:Book cover image
    A low res picture of a book cover may be Fair Use "This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers to illustrate an article discussing the book in question qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on RationalWiki or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. If the book cover is in the public domain, then use the appropriate notice rather than this one." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:Cc-by-2.5
    Creative commons 2.5 licence. Requires Attribution. "This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
    In short: you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute its author(s) or licensor(s).    " - {{{2}}}
"you are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to Remix — to adapt the work: Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work); Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. " - SeeWikipedia
  • Template:FAL
    Free "Copyleft: This work of art is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art License. You will find a specimen of this license on the site Copyleft Attitude http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ as well as on other sites." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:Fair use
    Where fair use is claimed. For specific use in one article only. Note: This is a template with multiple parameters
  • Template:Flickr
    A variant of the "Information" Notice for use with Flickr images
  • Template:GFDL-self
    Where the Copyright holder puts the image into GFDL "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:PD
    Use where an image has been released unconditionally into the Public Domain: "This Image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. This applies worldwide. Content released into the public domain may be used for any purpose without attribution, including commercial activities and creation of derivative works." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:PD-art
    for photographs of works of art under certain conditions "The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. Under American copyright law, originality of expression is necessary for copyright protection, and a mere photograph of an out-of-copyright work may not be protected under American copyright law." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:PD-ineligible
    "This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:PD-old
    "This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of no more than the life of the author plus 100 years." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:PD-self
    "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law." - See Wikipedia
  • Template:PD-US
    "This Image file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. See this page for further explanation." - SeeWikipedia


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