CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Commons:Upload/Unknown author or license - Wikimedia Commons</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )commonswikimwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"bc520a31-9698-40c1-aadd-970c64c0c59d","wgCanonicalNamespace":"Project","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":4,"wgPageName":"Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license","wgTitle":"Upload/Unknown author or license","wgCurRevisionId":315571081,"wgRevisionId":315571081,"wgArticleId":1943464,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view", "wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":[],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license","wgRelevantArticleId":1943464,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgNoticeProject":"commons","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":true,"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":false,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":true,"watchlist":true,"tagline":true,"nearby":true},"wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":1000,"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"upwizPropertyTitles":{"P180":"Main subjects visible in this work"},"upwizPropertyPlaceholders":{"P180":"e.g., Angolan giraffe"},"upwizPropertyCopyLabels":{"P180":"Main subjects"},"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true, "wgDiscussionToolsFeaturesEnabled":{"replytool":true,"newtopictool":true,"sourcemodetoolbar":true,"topicsubscription":false,"autotopicsub":false,"visualenhancements":false,"visualenhancements_reply":false,"visualenhancements_pageframe":false},"wgDiscussionToolsFallbackEditMode":"source","wgULSPosition":"personal","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":true,"wgVector2022LanguageInHeader":false,"wgULSisLanguageSelectorEmpty":false,"wbmiDefaultProperties":["P180"],"wbmiPropertyTitles":{"P180":"Items portrayed in this file"},"wbmiPropertyTypes":{"P180":"wikibase-item"},"wbmiRepoApiUrl":"/w/api.php","wbmiHelpUrls":{"P180":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Depicts"},"wbmiExternalEntitySearchBaseUri":"https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php","wbmiSupportedDataTypes":["wikibase-item","string","quantity","time","monolingualtext","external-id","globe-coordinate","url"],"wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["brands","architecture","bitness","fullVersionList","mobile","model", "platform","platformVersion"]};RLSTATE={"ext.gadget.Long-Image-Names-in-Categories":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","ext.discussionTools.init.styles":"ready","oojs-ui-core.styles":"ready","oojs-ui.styles.indicators":"ready","mediawiki.widgets.styles":"ready","oojs-ui-core.icons":"ready","skins.vector.styles.legacy":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","codex-search-styles":"ready","ext.uls.pt":"ready","wikibase.client.init":"ready","ext.wikimediaBadges":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["site","mediawiki.page.ready","skins.vector.legacy.js","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.gadget.Slideshow","ext.gadget.ZoomViewer","ext.gadget.CollapsibleTemplates","ext.gadget.fastcci","ext.gadget.Stockphoto","ext.gadget.WatchlistNotice","ext.gadget.AjaxQuickDelete","ext.gadget.WikiMiniAtlas","ext.gadget.LanguageSelect", "ext.gadget.PictureOfTheYearEnhancements","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","mmv.bootstrap","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.discussionTools.init","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.wikimediaEvents.wikibase","ext.navigationTiming","ext.uls.compactlinks","ext.uls.interface","ext.checkUser.clientHints"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=codex-search-styles%7Cext.discussionTools.init.styles%7Cext.uls.pt%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediaBadges%7Cmediawiki.widgets.styles%7Coojs-ui-core.icons%2Cstyles%7Coojs-ui.styles.indicators%7Cskins.vector.styles.legacy%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=vector"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.gadget.Long-Image-Names-in-Categories&only=styles&skin=vector"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.4"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1120"> <meta property="og:title" content="Commons:Upload/Unknown author or license - Wikimedia Commons"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="//commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit" href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&action=edit"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch/commons.png"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/commons.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikimedia Commons"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikimedia Commons Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="ext-discussiontools-replytool-enabled ext-discussiontools-newtopictool-enabled ext-discussiontools-sourcemodetoolbar-enabled skin-vector-legacy mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-4 ns-subject mw-editable page-Commons_Upload_Unknown_author_or_license rootpage-Commons_Upload skin-vector action-view"><div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"> <a id="top"></a> <div id="siteNotice"></div> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">Commons</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Upload/Unknown author or license</span></h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository</div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><div class="subpages">< <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload" title="Commons:Upload">Commons:Upload</a></bdi></div></div></div> <div id="contentSub2"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#searchInput">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="toccolours noprint" style="clear:both; margin:0 0 1em; line-height:1;"><b style="color:#888; vertical-align:top; font-size:x-small;">This project page in other languages:</b> <div style="line-height:1.3"><small> <p><a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/bg/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/bg/Unknown author or license">български</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/ca/Autor_o_llic%C3%A8ncia_desconeguts" title="Commons:Upload/ca/Autor o llicència desconeguts">català</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/ckb/%D9%86%DB%95%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%95%D8%B1_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%DB%86%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%85%DB%86%DA%B5%DB%95%D8%AA%D9%BE%DB%8E%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86" title="Commons:Upload/ckb/نەناسینی دانەر یان جۆری مۆڵەتپێدان">کوردی</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Hochladen/Autor_oder_Lizenz_unbekannt" title="Commons:Hochladen/Autor oder Lizenz unbekannt">Deutsch</a> | <a class="mw-selflink selflink">English</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/es/Licencia_o_autor_desconocidos" title="Commons:Upload/es/Licencia o autor desconocidos">español</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/et/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/et/Unknown author or license">eesti</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/ext/Lic%C3%A9ncia_u_autol_andarrius" title="Commons:Upload/ext/Licéncia u autol andarrius">estremeñu</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/fa/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/fa/Unknown author or license">فارسی</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/Auteur_ou_licence_inconnu" title="Commons:Upload/Auteur ou licence inconnu">français</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/gl/Autor_ou_licenza_desco%C3%B1ecidos" title="Commons:Upload/gl/Autor ou licenza descoñecidos">galego</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/he/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/he/Unknown author or license">עברית</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/hu/Ismeretlen_szerz%C5%91_vagy_licenc" title="Commons:Upload/hu/Ismeretlen szerző vagy licenc">magyar</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/hr/Autor_ili_dozvola_nepoznati" title="Commons:Upload/hr/Autor ili dozvola nepoznati">hrvatski</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/it/Unknown_author_or_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:Upload/it/Unknown author or license">italiano</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/ja/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/ja/Unknown author or license">日本語</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/ko/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/ko/Unknown author or license">한국어</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/lt/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/lt/Unknown author or license">lietuvių</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/mk/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/mk/Unknown author or license">македонски</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/Outor_i_lic%C3%A9ncia_%C3%A7coincidos" title="Commons:Upload/Outor i licéncia çcoincidos">Mirandés</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/ml/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%86_%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%86_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BE_%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2" title="Commons:Upload/ml/സ്രഷ്ടാവിന്റെ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അനുമതിയുടെ വിവരങ്ങൾ അറിയില്ല">മലയാളം</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/nl/Unknown_author_or_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:Upload/nl/Unknown author or license">Nederlands</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/nb/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/nb/Unknown author or license">norsk bokmål</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/pl/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/pl/Unknown author or license">polski</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/Autor_e_licen%C3%A7a_desconhecidos" title="Commons:Upload/Autor e licença desconhecidos">português</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/ru/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/ru/Unknown author or license">русский</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/sk/Unknown_author_or_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:Upload/sk/Unknown author or license">slovenčina</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/sr/Unknown_author_or_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:Upload/sr/Unknown author or license">српски / srpski</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license/fi" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:Upload/Unknown author or license/fi">suomi</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/sv/Unknown_author_or_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:Upload/sv/Unknown author or license">svenska</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/tr/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/tr/Unknown author or license">Türkçe</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/yue/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/yue/Unknown author or license">粵語</a> | <a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/zh-hans/Unknown_author_or_license" title="Commons:Upload/zh-hans/Unknown author or license">中文（简体）</a> | <small class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Lang-Upload-UnknownAuthor&action=edit">+/−</a></small> </p> </small></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading1"><h1 id="Why_do_we_need_to_know_the_author_and_license?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Why_do_we_need_to_know_the_author_and_license?"><span id="Why_do_we_need_to_know_the_author_and_license.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Why_do_we_need_to_know_the_author_and_license?"></span>Why do we need to know the author and license?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Why_do_we_need_to_know_the_author_and_license?"></span></h1></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Dialog-stop-hand.svg/100px-Dialog-stop-hand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Dialog-stop-hand.svg/150px-Dialog-stop-hand.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Dialog-stop-hand.svg/200px-Dialog-stop-hand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Wikimedia Commons has a mandate only to provide works that are <i>known</i> to be available under a <a href="/wiki/Commons:Licensing" title="Commons:Licensing">free license</a> or to be in the public domain— that is, works that are known not to infringe on the copyrights of any author. If we don't know who the author is and when the work was created, then we can't know the copyright status and we can't know what licenses, if any, apply to the work. There are certain exceptions, of course: if the <a href="/wiki/Commons:Anonymous_works" title="Commons:Anonymous works">author was never really known</a>, if the work is too <a href="/wiki/Commons:Threshold_of_originality" title="Commons:Threshold of originality">simple</a> to qualify for copyright protection, or if the work is "old enough" (no country currently offers copyright protection to works whose author has been deceased for more than 100 years— see <a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory" title="Commons:Copyright rules by territory">Commons:Copyright rules by territory</a>), then the "author" field is not compulsory. If you are still in doubt, you are encouraged to ask for help at the <a href="/wiki/Commons:Helpdesk" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:Helpdesk">Helpdesk</a>. </p><p><br/> <big>Works which do not include the name of the author or which are not otherwise clearly in the public domain will be tagged for <i>deletion</i>. <b>Please don't upload them to Wikimedia Commons.</b></big> </p> <div class="oo-ui-fieldLayout-field" dir="ltr"> <div class="oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-flaggedElement-notice oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-messageWidget-block oo-ui-messageWidget"><div style="line-height: 1.42857143em;"><figure class="mw-halign-left skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/OOjs_UI_icon_notice.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_notice.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/OOjs_UI_icon_notice.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_notice.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/OOjs_UI_icon_notice.svg/40px-OOjs_UI_icon_notice.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"/></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label">Please visit <b><a href="/wiki/Commons:Help_desk" title="Commons:Help desk">Commons:Help desk</a></b> if you need to ask questions about uploading files. </span></div> </div> <div class="oo-ui-fieldLayout-field autoconfirmedonly" dir="ltr"> <div class="oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-flaggedElement-warning oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-messageWidget-block oo-ui-messageWidget" style="margin-top:0.25em;"><div style="line-height: 1.42857143em;"><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Copyvio_icon.svg/20px-Copyvio_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Copyvio_icon.svg/30px-Copyvio_icon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Copyvio_icon.svg/40px-Copyvio_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="153" data-file-height="153"/></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"> Only upload <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Licensing#Material_in_the_public_domain" title="Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Licensing">freely licensed</a> or <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Licensing#Material_in_the_public_domain" title="Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Licensing">public domain</a> content. <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Fair_use" title="Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Fair use">Fair use</a> is not allowed on Wikimedia Commons. (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:First_steps/Contributing" title="Special:MyLanguage/Commons:First steps/Contributing">help</a>)</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:0.4em;"></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&oldid=315571081">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&oldid=315571081</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <nav id="p-personal" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal vector-user-menu-legacy vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label" > <h3 id="p-personal-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Personal tools</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-uls" class="mw-list-item active"><a class="uls-trigger" href="#"><span>English</span></a></li><li id="pt-anonuserpage" class="mw-list-item"><span title="The user page for the IP address you are editing as">Not logged in</span></li><li id="pt-anontalk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n"><span>Talk</span></a></li><li id="pt-anoncontribs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y"><span>Contributions</span></a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Commons%3AUpload%2FUnknown+author+or+license" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory"><span>Create account</span></a></li><li id="pt-login" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Commons%3AUpload%2FUnknown+author+or+license" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o"><span>Log in</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav id="p-namespaces" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-namespaces vector-menu-tabs vector-menu-tabs-legacy vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label" > <h3 id="p-namespaces-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Namespaces</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-project" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license" title="View the project page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Project page</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons_talk:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Discussion</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-variants" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet vector-menu-dropdown vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-variants-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-variants" class="vector-menu-checkbox" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" > <label id="p-variants-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation"> <nav id="p-views" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-views vector-menu-tabs vector-menu-tabs-legacy vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-views-label" > <h3 id="p-views-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Views</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license"><span>View</span></a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-history" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h"><span>History</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-cactions" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-cactions emptyPortlet vector-menu-dropdown vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label" title="More options" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-cactions-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-cactions" class="vector-menu-checkbox" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label" > <label id="p-cactions-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">More</span> </label> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </nav> <div id="p-search" role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box"> <h3 >Search</h3> <form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform" class="vector-search-box-form"> <div id="simpleSearch" class="vector-search-box-inner" data-search-loc="header-navigation"> <input class="vector-search-box-input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikimedia Commons" aria-label="Search Wikimedia Commons" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikimedia Commons [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput" > <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:MediaSearch"> <input id="mw-searchButton" class="searchButton mw-fallbackSearchButton" type="submit" name="fulltext" title="Search the pages for this text" value="Search"> <input id="searchButton" class="searchButton" type="submit" name="go" title="Go to a page with this exact name if it exists" value="Go"> </div> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-panel" class="vector-legacy-sidebar"> <div id="p-logo" role="banner"> <a class="mw-wiki-logo" href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page"></a> </div> <nav id="p-navigation" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-navigation vector-menu-portal portal vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-navigation-label" > <h3 id="p-navigation-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Navigate</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-mainpage-description" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z"><span>Main page</span></a></li><li id="n-welcome" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Welcome"><span>Welcome</span></a></li><li id="n-portal" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Community_portal" title="About the project, what you can do, where to find things"><span>Community portal</span></a></li><li id="n-village-pump" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Village_pump"><span>Village pump</span></a></li><li id="n-help" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents" title="The place to find out"><span>Help center</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-participate" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-participate vector-menu-portal portal vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-participate-label" > <h3 id="p-participate-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Participate</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-uploadbtn" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:UploadWizard"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="n-recentchanges" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes in the wiki [r]" accesskey="r"><span>Recent changes</span></a></li><li id="n-latestfiles" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:NewFiles"><span>Latest files</span></a></li><li id="n-randomimage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random/File" title="Load a random file [x]" accesskey="x"><span>Random file</span></a></li><li id="n-contact" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Contact_us"><span>Contact us</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-tb" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb vector-menu-portal portal vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-tb-label" > <h3 id="p-tb-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Tools</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license" title="A list of all wiki pages that link here [j]" accesskey="j"><span>What links here</span></a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k"><span>Related changes</span></a></li><li id="t-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q"><span>Special pages</span></a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&oldid=315571081" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page"><span>Permanent link</span></a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&action=info" title="More information about this page"><span>Page information</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCommons%3AUpload%2FUnknown_author_or_license"><span>Get shortened URL</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCommons%3AUpload%2FUnknown_author_or_license"><span>Download QR code</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-coll-print_export" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export vector-menu-portal portal vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-coll-print_export-label" > <h3 id="p-coll-print_export-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Print/export</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-create_a_book" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=Commons%3AUpload%2FUnknown+author+or+license"><span>Create a book</span></a></li><li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=Commons%3AUpload%2FUnknown_author_or_license&action=show-download-screen"><span>Download as PDF</span></a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p"><span>Printable version</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects emptyPortlet vector-menu-portal portal vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-wikibase-otherprojects-label" > <h3 id="p-wikibase-otherprojects-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">In other projects</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-lang" class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang vector-menu-portal portal vector-menu" aria-labelledby="p-lang-label" > <h3 id="p-lang-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">In Wikipedia</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><span class="wb-langlinks-add wb-langlinks-link"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem?site=commonswiki&page=Commons%3AUpload%2FUnknown+author+or+license" title="Add interlanguage links" class="wbc-editpage">Add links</a></span></div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 20 August 2018, at 23:50.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons CC0 License</a>; all unstructured text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use</a> and the <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy Policy</a>.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Welcome">About Wikimedia Commons</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Commons:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/commons.wikimedia.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="//commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Upload/Unknown_author_or_license&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg" width="84" height="29" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" loading="lazy"></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" width="88" height="31" loading="lazy"></a></li> </ul> </footer> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.log.warn("This page is using the deprecated ResourceLoader module \"codex-search-styles\".\n[1.43] Use a CodexModule with codexComponents to set your specific components used: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Codex#Using_a_limited_subset_of_components");mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-f69cdc8f6-b78pt","wgBackendResponseTime":113,"wgDiscussionToolsPageThreads":[{"headingLevel":1,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Why_do_we_need_to_know_the_author_and_license?","replies":[]}],"wgPageParseReport":{"discussiontools":{"limitreport-timeusage":"0.005"},"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.049","walltime":"0.084","ppvisitednodes":{"value":199,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":13024,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":2504,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":11,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":0,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":0,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":0,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":0,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 48.430 1 -total"," 76.48% 37.041 1 Template:Header"," 72.58% 35.150 1 Template:Header/layout"," 50.29% 24.353 1 Template:Header/i18n"," 41.94% 20.311 1 Template:LangSwitch"," 23.36% 11.315 1 Template:Upload_Help_notice"," 17.51% 8.480 1 Template:Lang-Upload-UnknownAuthor"," 4.83% 2.340 1 Template:Namespace"," 4.02% 1.948 1 Template:Edit"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.005","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":650459,"limit":52428800}},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-web.eqiad.main-7c55db6c78-cz8v7","timestamp":"20241026131516","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> </body> </html>