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.hlist li dt:first-child:before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child:before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child:after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li:before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child:before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child:before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child:before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Commonly_used_licenses" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Commonly used licenses">Commonly used licenses</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">General public domain</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Country-specific_tags" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Country-specific tags">Country-specific tags</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/GNU_licenses" title="Commons:Copyright tags/GNU licenses">GNU licenses</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Free_Creative_Commons_licenses" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Free Creative Commons licenses">Free Creative Commons licenses</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Various_free_licenses" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Various free licenses">Various free licenses</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Not_free_or_uncertain" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Not free or uncertain">Not free or uncertain</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Descriptive_tags" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Descriptive tags">Descriptive tags</a></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Index_by_source" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Index by source">Index by source</a></span></li></ul> </div></div></div> <p>General public domain tags describe why a work is in the public domain based on criteria that are not specific to the country or the source of the work. Reasons may be that the author or their heirs released the work into the public domain, that a modified copy is not significantly different from a work in the public domain, that a work is too simple to qualify for copyright protection or that the author died long ago. If the work's source country is not the United States it must also have a tag that shows why it is in the public domain in the United States. </p><p>See <a href="/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Various_free_licenses" title="Commons:Copyright tags/Various free licenses">Commons:Copyright tags/Various free licenses</a> for more specific public domain and free license tags. These are often defined by the source of the file, such as a website or organization. See <a href="/wiki/Category:PD_license_tags" title="Category:PD license tags">Category:PD license tags</a> for a full list of PD tags. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Non-U.S._works" data-mw-thread-id="h-Non-U.S._works"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Non-U.S._works"></span>Non-U.S. works<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Non-U.S._works"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Copyright_tags/General_public_domain&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Non-U.S. works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>All works hosted at the Commons must be legal to publish in the United States. For non-U.S. "public domain" works, this means they must be in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Public_domain" class="extiw" title="w:en:Public domain">public domain</a> in both the non-U.S. source country and in the U.S., or there must be an explicit release of the work for the U.S. under a free license. </p><p>For non-U.S. works, please add one of the following tags in addition to an appropriate license tag for the country of origin: </p> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-US-expired" title="Template:PD-US-expired">PD-US-expired</a>}}</span> for non-sound recording works <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Publication" class="extiw" title="w:en:Publication">published</a> (not simply created!) before January 1, 1930. <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-US-record-expired" title="Template:PD-US-record-expired">PD-US-record-expired</a>}}</span> for sound recording works published before January 1, 1925.</li></ul></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-URAA-Simul" title="Template:PD-URAA-Simul">PD-URAA-Simul</a>|<i>country</i>|<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Uruguay_Round_Agreements_Act" class="extiw" title="w:en:Uruguay Round Agreements Act">URAA date</a></i>|<i>reason</i>}}</span> or <span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-1996" title="Template:PD-1996">PD-1996</a>|<i>country</i>|<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Uruguay_Round_Agreements_Act" class="extiw" title="w:en:Uruguay Round Agreements Act">URAA date</a></i>|<i>reason</i>}}</span> if published in 1930 or later, and not copyrighted in the source country on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Uruguay_Round_Agreements_Act" class="extiw" title="w:en:Uruguay Round Agreements Act">URAA</a> date (January 1, 1996 for most countries).</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Not-PD-US-URAA" title="Template:Not-PD-US-URAA">Not-PD-US-URAA</a>}}</span> or <span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Not-PD-US-URAA" title="Template:Not-PD-US-URAA">Not-PD-US-URAA</a>|<i>country</i>|<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Uruguay_Round_Agreements_Act" class="extiw" title="w:en:Uruguay Round Agreements Act">URAA date</a></i>}}</span> for works published in 1930 or later, but copyrighted in the source country on the URAA date, even if that non-U.S. copyright has expired since then. Note that this concerns most works published in 1930 or later by authors who died after 1925, for source countries with a copyright term of "life of author plus 70 years". For works of such authors that were published before 1930, use <a href="/wiki/Template:PD-US-expired" title="Template:PD-US-expired"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-US-expired}}</span></a> <i>in addition</i> to the appropriate copyright tag for the source country.</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Not-free-US-FOP" title="Template:Not-free-US-FOP">Not-free-US-FOP</a>}}</span> for media published under non-US <a href="/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama" title="Commons:Freedom of panorama">freedom of panorama</a> rules not yet proven to be acceptable in the US.</li></ul> <p>Sometimes you can use the <a href="#Time_based_automated_public_domain_licenses">general time-based automated public domain license tags</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Released_into_the_public_domain" data-mw-thread-id="h-Released_into_the_public_domain"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Released_into_the_public_domain"></span>Released into the public domain<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Released_into_the_public_domain"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Copyright_tags/General_public_domain&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Released into the public domain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A work may be released into the public domain by the author or their heirs. Tags for different types of release are given below. See also <i><a href="/wiki/Category:PD-release_like_license_tags" title="Category:PD-release like license tags">Category:PD-release like license tags</a></i>, which lists specialized tags for files released by a particular organization or author. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Cc-zero" title="Template:Cc-zero"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Cc-zero}}</span></a> – for works released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Like <a href="/wiki/Template:PD-author" title="Template:PD-author"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-author}}</span></a>/etc., plus an explicit fallback to an extremely permissive copyright license in cases where releasing into the actual public domain is impossible.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-self" title="Template:PD-self"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-self}}</span></a> – for works released into the public domain by their creator who is also the uploader.</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-user" title="Template:PD-user">PD-user</a>|<i>username</i>}}</span> – for works released into the public domain by their creators when the creators are Wikimedia Commons users.</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-user-en" title="Template:PD-user-en">PD-user-en</a>|<i>username</i>}}</span> – for works released into the public domain by their creators when the creators are English Wikipedia users.</li> <li>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-user-w" title="Template:PD-user-w">PD-user-w</a>|<i>projectcode</i>|<i>projectname</i>|<i>username</i>}} – for works released into the public domain by their creators when the creators are other Wikipedia users.</li></ul> <dl><dd>The variable <i>projectcode</i> is the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_language_Wikipedias_available" class="extiw" title="meta:Complete list of language Wikipedias available">language name</a> of the creator's local Wikipedia (e.g. "de" for the German Wikipedia, and "ja" for the Japanese);</dd> <dd>The variable <i>projectname</i> is the human readable project name (e.g. "French Wikipedia", "German Wiktionary", etc).</dd> <dd>The variable <i>username</i> is the creator's log-in name at that project.</dd></dl> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-author" title="Template:PD-author">PD-author</a>|<i>author</i>}}</span> – for works released into the public domain by non-Wikimedia users. Some further explanation should be given such as a link to the author's website where they explicitly state that they release the work into the public domain (e.g. <code>{{PD-author|[http://www.sitename.com author]}}</code> ).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-heirs" title="Template:PD-heirs"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-heirs}}</span></a> – for works released into the public domain by the heirs of the creator.</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-because" title="Template:PD-because">PD-because</a>|<i>reason</i>}}</span> – generic template; please supply a valid reason for the file being PD.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-animal" title="Template:PD-animal"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-animal}}</span></a> – for works created by non-human animals.</li></ul> <p><span id="2Dart"></span> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-algorithm" title="Template:PD-algorithm"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-algorithm}}</span></a> – for works created by computer algorithms or artificial intelligences.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Two-dimensional_works_of_art" data-mw-thread-id="h-Two-dimensional_works_of_art"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Two-dimensional_works_of_art"></span>Two-dimensional works of art<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Two-dimensional_works_of_art"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Copyright_tags/General_public_domain&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Two-dimensional works of art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span dir="ltr">See also: <a href="/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag" title="Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag">Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-scan_tag" title="Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag">Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art_photographs" title="Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs">Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:PD-Art_license_tags" title="Category:PD-Art license tags">Category:PD-Art license tags</a></span>. If a two-dimensional work of art is in the public domain in its country of origin and the United States, then a faithful reproduction may be uploaded to Commons. If the reproduction has also been given a free license, this information should be provided. </p> <ul><li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-Art" title="Template:PD-Art">PD-Art</a>|<i>PD tag</i>}}</span> – for faithful photographic reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art. The variable <i>PD tag</i> is the name of the copyright tag that describes why the original is in the public domain in the USA and the country of origin. If empty, <a href="/wiki/Template:PD-old" title="Template:PD-old"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-old}}</span></a> is assumed.</li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:PD-Art-two" title="Template:PD-Art-two">PD-Art-two</a>|<i>Source tag</i>|<i>US tag</i>}}</span> - same as <a href="/wiki/Template:PD-Art" title="Template:PD-Art"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-Art}}</span></a>, but allows country of origin and US licenses to be added separately. Additional parameters are <code>|deathyear= |publication= </code></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Licensed-PD-Art" title="Template:Licensed-PD-Art"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Licensed-PD-Art}}</span></a> - template explaining why a photograph of a public domain object is public domain in the United States, while outside the US a separate license can be used. Used when the photograph has been released under a free license such as <a href="/wiki/Template:PD-self" title="Template:PD-self"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-self}}</span></a> or <a href="/wiki/Template:Cc-zero" title="Template:Cc-zero"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Cc-zero}}</span></a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Licensed-PD-Art-two" title="Template:Licensed-PD-Art-two"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Licensed-PD-Art-two}}</span></a> - same as <a href="/wiki/Template:Licensed-PD-Art" title="Template:Licensed-PD-Art"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Licensed-PD-Art}}</span></a>, but allows country of origin and US licenses to be added separately</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Art_Photo" title="Template:Art Photo"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Art Photo}}</span></a> - Combination template of <a href="/wiki/Template:Artwork" title="Template:Artwork"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Artwork}}</span></a> for the object and <a href="/wiki/Template:Information" title="Template:Information"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Information}}</span></a> for the photograph metadata, which allows user to provide separate artwork and photograph licenses</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-scan" title="Template:PD-scan"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-scan}}</span></a> – for scans of public domain originals which may have been enhanced, but only to the extent that no independent copyright protection can be expected to arise out of the enhancements. See also <a href="/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-scan_tag" title="Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag">Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-retouched-user" title="Template:PD-retouched-user"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-retouched-user}}</span></a> – for public domain works that have been significantly retouched or modified by a Commons user. This explicitly releases all rights to those modifications.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Threshold_of_Originality" data-mw-thread-id="h-Threshold_of_Originality"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Threshold_of_Originality"></span>Threshold of Originality<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Threshold_of_Originality"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Copyright_tags/General_public_domain&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Threshold of Originality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Full_pentagon_turquoise.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Full_pentagon_turquoise.svg/100px-Full_pentagon_turquoise.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Full_pentagon_turquoise.svg/150px-Full_pentagon_turquoise.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Full_pentagon_turquoise.svg/200px-Full_pentagon_turquoise.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="143" data-file-height="137" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Some works are too simple to be eligible for copyright protection. See <a href="/wiki/Commons:Threshold_of_originality" title="Commons:Threshold of originality">Commons:Threshold of originality</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-chart" title="Template:PD-chart"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-chart}}</span></a> – for simple charts and graphs.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-map" title="Template:PD-map"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-map}}</span></a> – for simple maps.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-chem" title="Template:PD-chem"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-chem}}</span></a> – chemistry structures.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-textlogo" title="Template:PD-textlogo"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-textlogo}}</span></a> – logos that only consist of simple geometric shapes and/or text.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-text" title="Template:PD-text"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-text}}</span></a> – simple text, other than a logo.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-shape" title="Template:PD-shape"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-shape}}</span></a> – simple geometry shapes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-font" title="Template:PD-font"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-font}}</span></a> – raster renderings of a font or typeface. See <a href="/wiki/Commons:Licensing" title="Commons:Licensing">Commons:Licensing</a> section on Fonts.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:PD-scan" title="Template:PD-scan"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-scan}}</span></a> or <a href="/wiki/Template:PD-scan-two" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:PD-scan-two"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{PD-scan-two}}</span></a> – simple, non-creative reproductions of two-dimensional subjects. 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