Commons:Copyright tags/Country-specific tags
Country-specific license tags show the reason why a file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons is in the public domain in its country of origin. If a file was created or first published outside the United States, another tag should show why it is in the public domain in the United States. A file may be in the public domain in its country of origin based on the date of death of the author, date of publication, type of work, organization that commissioned the work and so on.
See Commons:Copyright rules by territory for details of country-specific rules. See Category:License tags by country for a complete list of country-specific license tags including public domain, free use and descriptive license tags.
The list below gives information "transcluded" from page sections that give the copyright tags specific to each country or territory. It may be incomplete. Tags are also given for the United Nations and the European Union.
Click on a link in the box to the right for a complete list of all countries in a region (e.g. Africa), showing country-specific tags where available.
COM:TAG United Nations
United Nations
- {{PD-US-no notice-UN}}: Work is excerpted from an official document of the United Nations published in the United States prior to 17 September 1987.
- {{PD-UN-doc}}: Published by the United Nations without a copyright notice, was left in the public domain in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in the United Nations Publications". It falls into one of the following categories outlined in Administrative Instruction ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.2 (paragraph 2):
- Official records (proceedings of conferences, verbatim and summary records, periodic supplements, compilations of resolutions, etc.)
- United Nations documents issued with a UN document symbol
- Public information material designed primarily to inform the public about United Nations activities (not including material that is offered for sale)
- {{PD-UN-map}}: United Nations maps.
- {{PD-LN}}: Official records of the League of Nations, transferred to the United Nations when the league dissolved in 1946.
COM:TAG European Union
European Union
The following tags apply to works published in any country which has copyright legislation harmonized to the European Union directives.
- {{PD-old-70}} – for works in the public domain because their copyright has expired in countries and areas copyrighting works for life plus 70 years or less.
- {{PD-anon-70-EU}} – anonymous work more than 70 years old (European Union).
- {{PD-EU-no author disclosure}} – anonymous work published more than 70 years ago without a public claim of authorship and no subsequent claim of authorship in the 70 years following its first publication (European Union).
- {{PD-EEA}} – Image in the public domain because it is extracted from the European Environment Agency Website, whose material is in the public domain unless otherwise stated.
- {{Attribution-Eur-Lex}} – for works of law of the European Union, as recorded on Eur-Lex
- {{Attribution-Eurostat}} – for works from the European Union's statistical agency, Eurostat
- {{PD-European-Commission}} – for works produced by the commission without specified restrictions; works on ec.europa.eu or its portal are CC-BY-4.0.
- {{EC-Audiovisual Center}} - for works from the European Commission's Audiovisual Center.
Individual countries of the European Union may also have country-specific tags.
COM:TAG Abkhazia
Abkhazia
- {{PD-AB-exempt}} for works that are not objects of copyright.
COM:TAG Afghanistan
Afghanistan
- {{PD-Afghanistan}} – public domain (no existing copyright law)
COM:TAG Albania
Albania
- {{PD-Albania}} – for works where the copyright has expired
- {{PD-Albania-exempt}} – for work not copyrightable under the copyright law of 2005.
COM:TAG Algeria
Algeria
- {{PD-Algeria-photo-except}} – for photographs published prior to 1987.
- {{PD-Algeria}} – for other works.
COM:TAG Argentina
Argentina
- {{PD-AR-Photo}} – for Argentinian photographs first published more than 25 years ago. A proper source and date of publications has to be provided.
- {{PD-AR-Movie}} – for Argentinian and cinematographic works 50 years after the death of the script writer, the producer and the director.
- {{PD-AR-Music}} – for Argentinian music first published more than 70 years ago, and for free music performances done by musical ensembles belonging to the national, provincial or municipal governments.
- {{PD-AR-Anonymous}} – for anonymous works belonging to an institution, corporation or legal entity, registered in Argentina published 50 years ago or more.
- {{PD-AR-Signs}} – for road signs published in laws or other regulations.
- {{PD-AR-Deputies}} – for contents from the Argentine Deputies Chamber website.
- {{PD-AR-Senate}} - for contents from the Argentine Senate website.
- {{CC-AR-Presidency}} - for contents from the Presidency of Argentina website after 9 December 2015.
- {{CC-AR-Presidency-old}} - for contents from the Presidency of Argentina website before 9 December 2015.
- For all other works 70 years after the death of the author, {{PD-old}} applies.
- Local governments tags:
- {{CC-AR-GCBA}} - for contents from the Government of Buenos Aires City website.
- {{PD-AR-BALegislature}} - for contents from the Buenos Aires's City Legislature website before 14 August 2022.
- {{Cc-by-2.5-ar}} - for contents from the Bahía Blanca Partido website.
- {{CC-AR-GobEntreRíos}} - for contents from the Secretariat of Communication of the Government of Entre Ríos website.
- {{CC-AR-GobRíoNegro}} - for contents from the Government of Río Negro Province website.
- {{CC-AR-GobSantaFe}} - for contents from the Government of Santa Fe Province website.
- {{CC-AR-MunicipalidadCórdoba}} - for contents from the Municipality of Córdoba website before 28 September 2020.
- {{CC-AR-MunicipalidadMendoza}} - for contents from the Municipality of Mendoza website before 28 March 2022.
- {{Municipalidad de Rosario}} - for contents from the Municipality of Rosario website.
- Political parties tags:
- {{Unión Cívica Radical}} - for contents from the Radical Civic Union website.
- {{CC-AR-PartidoObrero}} - for contents from the Workers' Party website.
- News websites tags:
- {{CC-AR-PrensaObrera}} - for contents from the Workers' Press website.
- {{CC-AR-ANRed}} - for contents from the ANRed website.
COM:TAG Armenia
Armenia
- {{PD-Armenia}} – for anonymous works or pseudonymous works 70 years after creation, other works 70 years after the death of the (last-surviving) author, "expressions of traditional folklore and art" or "political speeches, speeches delivered in the court," or "official documents, legal acts, treaties and the official translations thereof, state emblems and signs (flags, coats of arms, medals, monetary signs)."
- {{PD-AM-exempt}} – for works of folklore; communications on daily news or on current events that are press information; official documents (laws, decisions, decrees, etc.) as well as their official translations; state emblems and signs (flags, coats of arm (armorial bearings), medals (decorations), monetary signs, etc.); results obtained by technical means without the intervention of human creative activity.
- {{President.am}} - for works from president.am
COM:TAG Australia
Australia
No information available
COM:TAG Austria
Austria
- {{PD-AustrianGov}} – for parts of laws, ordinances or official decrees issued by an Austrian federal or state authority and for works of those authorities intended predominantly for official use.
- {{PD-StVZVO}} – for road signs published in ordinances or other regulations.
COM:TAG Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
- {{PD-AZ-exempt}} – for official documents (laws, court decisions, other texts of legislative, administrative or judicial character) and official translations thereof; State emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs); works of folklore, which have no signs of Article 5 of this law; communications concerning events and facts that have informational character.
- {{President.az}} – The permission letter from the Press Secretary for the President of Azerbaijan is available here:
- The are no restrictions on the full or partial use of textual, photographic, video and audio material featured on the official website of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the media outlets, internet resources and information carriers. This also applies to television channels, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, scientific publications and encyclopedias (including online encyclopedias).
All materials on the website are available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
COM:TAG Bahrain
Bahrain
- {{PD-Bahrain}} – for films 70 years from publication, for other works 70 years after the author's death.
COM:TAG Bangladesh
Bangladesh
- {{PD-Bangladesh}} - for photographs and films 60 years starting from the end of the year it was produced; for other works 60 years after the death of the author, or last-surviving author.
COM:TAG Belarus
Belarus
- {{PD-BY-exempt}} – for formal documents (laws, judgements, other texts of legal, administrative and judicial nature), and also their official translations; state symbols and signs (flag, coat of arms, anthem, awards, banknotes and other signs); works of folk arts, authors of which are not known.
- {{PD-Belarus}} – for works 50 years after the author's (or last-surviving co-author) death or 50 years after the first legal publication of the work published under pseudonym or anonymously.
COM:TAG Belgium
Belgium
- {{PD-Vlaams-gemeentewapen}} – for municipal coats of arms from the Flemish region.
- {{PD-Vlaamse-gemeentevlag}} – for municipal flags from the Flemish region
- {{PD-Belgium-exempt}} – for the official products of the Belgian government
COM:TAG Bolivia
Bolivia
COM:TAG Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- {{PD-BH-exempt}} – for works exempt from copyright under Bosnia and Herzegovina law (“ideas, plans, …, official texts, …, professional reports, …” – see license template for details)
COM:TAG Brazil
Brazil
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- {{PD-BrazilGov}} – for works published or commissioned by a Brazilian government (federal, state, or municipal) prior to 1983, or the text of a treaty, convention, law, decree, regulation, judicial decision, or other official enactment.
- {{PD-Brazil-Photo}} - Non-artistic photographs produced until 19 June 1998.
- {{PD-Brazil-media}} – for Brazilian photographs and audiovisual works first published more than 70 years ago.
- {{PD-Brazil-URAA}} – for Brazilian photographic works published/created before 1998, whose author died before 1936, or anonymous works published before 1936.
- {{PD-BR-1935}} – for Brazilian audiovisual works created before 1936 that entered the public domain 60 years after creation.
- {{Arquivo Nacional PD-license}} – for works preservated by the Brazilian National Archives.
See also Category:License tags attribution from Brazil, for example:
- {{Attribution-NavyofBrazil}} – for some works published by the Brazilian Navy.
COM:TAG Brunei
Brunei
COM:TAG Bulgaria
Bulgaria
- {{PD-BG-exempt}} – for works exempt from copyright under Bulgaria law.
- {{PD-BulgarianGov}} – for government works exempt from copyright under Bulgaria law.
- {{PD-BGMFA}} — for works published on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- {{President.bg}} — for works published on the website of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
COM:TAG Cambodia
Cambodia
- {{PD-Cambodia}} - Works where the (last surviving) author has been dead for over 50 years. Collective, anonymous, pseudonymous or collective audio-visual works 75 years after creation or publication.[2003 Article 30–31]
- {{PD-CambodiaGov}} - ineligible for copyright because it is one of: "Constitution, Law, Royal Decree, Sub-Decree, ... other Regulation, ... Proclamation (Prakas), decision, certificate, other instructed circulars issued by state organizations" and "Court decision or other court warrants" including translations thereof or "Idea, formality, method of operation, concept, principle, discovery or mere data, even if expressed, described, explained or embodied in any work."[2003 Article 10]
COM:TAG Canada
Canada
- {{PD-Canada}} – for Government images and other works first published over 50 years ago, photographs created before 1949 and works where the author died before 1972.
- {{PD-Canada-anon}} – for works where the author or authors are unknown, and the work was published before 1970 or created before 1945
- {{PD-Canada-Crown}} - for Crown copyright works over 50 years old
- {{PD-Canada-stamp}} – for stamps over 50 years old
- {{OGL-C}} for Government supplied information released under the Open Government License-Canada. Usually through the Open Data portal, https://open.canada.ca/en/open-data, or the geogratis portal, https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/topographic-information/10785
- {{OGL-Alberta}}, {{OGL-BC}}, or {{OGL-ON}} for material released under open-data licences of provincial governments
- {{OGL-YT}} for material released under open-data licences of territorial governments
- {{StatCanOpen}} for material released under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
COM:TAG Chile
Chile
- {{PD-Chile}} – for works in the public domain according to Chilean law (see: Template talk:PD-Chile).
COM:TAG China
China
- {{PD-China}} – for images in the public domain according to the People's Republic of China (mainland) and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- {{PD-China-film}} – for movies or images from movies published in the China more than 50 years ago according to Mainland China and Taiwan.
- {{PD-Empire of China Government Gazette}} – for the Government Gazette from January to March 1916 (Hongxian Year 1) by the Empire of China.
- {{PD-Manchukuo-stamps}} – for images of Manchukuo stamps that are now in the public domain in China.
- People's Republic of China
- {{PD-PRC-exempt}} – for works in the public domain according to the People's Republic of China for free of copyright.
- {{PD-PRC-GB mandatory standard}} – for images from mandatory Guobiao standards with legal nature.
- {{PD-PRC-Road Traffic Signs}} – for road traffic signs from mandatory National Standard GB 5768.
- {{PD-PRC-Road Traffic Markings}} – for road traffic markings from mandatory National Standard GB 5768.
- {{PD-PRC-CPC}} - for works formulated by central organization of the Communist Party of China
- Republic of China
Works with these tags may be published before or after 1949 within the jurisdiction of the Republic of China:
- {{PD-ROC-exempt}} – for images in the public domain according to the Republic of China for free of copyright
- {{PD-ROC-official}} – for the attachments of the laws of the Republic of China from the website of the Legislative Yuan law system
- {{PD-ROC-Presidential Office Gazette}} – for the Presidential Office Gazette from 20 May 1948 to present by the Presidential Office of the Republic of China [1]
- Older (1912–1949) works published within the jurisdiction of the Republic of China
- {{PD-ROC-Provisional Government Gazette}} – for the Provisional Government Gazette from 29 January to 5 April 1912 by the Nanking Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912) [2]
- {{PD-ROC-Provisional Gazette}} – for the Provisional Gazette from 13 February to 26 April 1912 by the Peking Republican Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912–1913)
- {{PD-ROC-Government Gazette}} – for the Government Gazette from May 1912 to June 1928 by the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China [3]
- {{PD-ROC-Military Government Gazette}} – for the Military Government Gazette from 17 September 1917 to 14 May 1918 by the Southern Government of the Republic of China [4]
- {{PD-ROC-Generalissimo Government Gazette}} – for the Generalissimo Government Gazette from 30 January 1922 to 20 May 1925 by the Southern Generalissimo Government of the Republic of China [5]
- {{PD-ROC-National Government Gazette}} – for the National Government Gazette from July 1925 to 19 May 1948 by the National Government of the Republic of China [6]
COM:TAG Colombia
Colombia
- {{PD-Colombia}} – generally 80 years after the author's death or 80 years after publication of audiovisual works, collective works and anonymous works. In all cases where a work has as its owner a legal entity or an official body or any institution under government public law, the term of protection shall be deemed to be 70 years as from the date of publication.
COM:TAG Costa Rica
Costa Rica
COM:TAG Croatia
Croatia
- {{PD-Croatia-exempt}} – for works exempt from copyright under the Croatian law.
- {{PD-Croatia}} – for works whose author died before 1949 or published before 1949 if anonymous (public domain prior to introduction of the new law in 1999).
COM:TAG Cuba
Cuba
- {{PD-Cuba}} – for works made in Cuba whose copyright has expired.
COM:TAG Czech Republic
Czech Republic
- {{PD-CzechGov}} – for public domain Czech official works, state symbols etc.
- {{Money-CZ}} – Czech currency
- {{PD-anon-70-CZ}} – for Czech public domain works that are 70+ years old and the author is unknown
COM:TAG Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- {{PD-Democratic Republic of the Congo}} – for all anonymous or pseudonymous works published 50 years ago, or 50 years have passed since the death of the author, or it is a photograph and 25 years have passed since publication, or it is an "official act of authority" and ineligible for copyright protection.
COM:TAG Denmark
Denmark
- {{PD-Denmark}} – for "photographic works of art" in the public domain according to Danish law.
- {{PD-Denmark50}} – for "photographic images not considered to display artistic merit or originality" that were created before 1 January 1970.
- {{PD-DenmarkGov}} – for "acts, administrative orders, legal decisions and similar official documents," but not "works appearing as independent contributions in the [aforementioned] documents."
- {{DGA map}} – for media in either full extent or partially based in Danish Geodata Agency open public geographic data. This tag does not preclude use of other copyright tags.
- {{Statistics Denmark}} – for media in either full extent or partially based on information from Statistics Denmark. This tag does not preclude use of other copyright tags.
- {{PD-DK-expired}} – for works where all authors have been dead for 70 years, which is the maximum amount of copyright allowed according to the 2023 law.
COM:TAG Djibouti
Djibouti
- {{PD-Djibouti}} – for works made in Djibouti whose copyright has expired (50 years after author's death, or 25 years after creation for photographic works, see details in the template). The Republic of Djibouti being the successor state of French Somaliland (Côte française des Somalis) and the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas, this applies to works published in those territories as well.
COM:TAG Egypt
Egypt
- {{PD Egypt}} – for all works other than those listed below.
- {{PD-Egypt-folklore}} – for works deemed part of Egypt's national folklore.
- {{PD-Egypt-official}} – for official documents.
- {{PD-Egypt-stamp}} – for Egyptian stamps published prior to 1946.
- {{FoP-Egypt}} — For photographs that benefit from the principle of freedom of panorama
COM:TAG Estonia
Estonia
- {{PD-EE-exempt}} – copyright does not apply to works of folklore, legislation and administrative documents, court decisions and official translations thereof; official symbols of the state and insignia of organizations. Freedom of panorama in Estonia is restricted to non-commercial uses only, or to overview photos.
COM:TAG Ethiopia
Ethiopia
- {{PD-Ethiopia}} – copyright term is generally 50 years after the author's death, or from the making of an audiovisual work or communication of said work to the public, whichever date is the latest. Copyright of a photographic work is 25 years from the making of the work.[410/2004 Article 20/1,7,8]
COM:TAG Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
- {{PD-Faroe stamps}} – for stamps by the Faroe post office in the public domain.
COM:TAG Fiji
Fiji
- {{PD-Fiji}} – for photographs at least 50 years after production.
COM:TAG Finland
Finland
- {{PD-Finland50}} – for photographic simple images in the public domain according to Finnish law.
- {{PD-Finland}} – for works of art (photographic included) in the public domain according to Finnish law. Same as {{PD-old-70}} for Finnish works.
- {{PD-FinlandGov}} – for laws, statements and decisions of Finnish officials.
- {{PD-Coa-Finland}} – for Finnish coats of arms of municipalities, districts or administrative or historical provinces.
- {{PD-FinlandStamp}} – for postage stamps published before January 1, 1990.
- {{PD-Kansallisarkisto}} – for archives material from the digital database of Finnish National Archives Service
- {{PD-Raita}} – for records from the Raita database.[1]
COM:TAG France
France
- {{PD-France}} – Public domain because the author(s) died more than 70 years ago and did not benefit from any copyright extension, or it is an anonymous, pseudonymous or collective work and more than 70 years have passed since its publication, or it is the recording of an audiovisual or musical work already in the public domain, and more than 50 years have passed since the performance or the recording.
- {{PD-Archivesnormandie}} – for pictures from the site Archives Normandie 1939-45. Pictures credited to the National Archives USA or the National Archives Canada and tagged "libres de droits" are in the public domain.
- {{PD-JORF}} – for French official legal texts as published in the Journal officiel de la République Française or reprinted on Légifrance; note: not all texts on Légifrance are out-of-copyright, many others are copyrighted under free licenses, and sometimes under unfree licenses).
- {{PD-JORF-nor-conso}} – with NOR (identification number) and index of the updated text.
- {{PD-ID-France}} – Ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it is a legally valid French identity photograph.
- {{Licence Ouverte}} and {{Licence Ouverte 2}} – For documents issued under the Licence Ouverte (for example from http://data.gouv.fr).
- {{Gouvernement.fr}} – For extracts from a video, text or infographic issued on the French government's website.
COM:TAG Gambia
The Gambia
COM:TAG Georgia
Georgia
- {{PD-GE-exempt}} – for official documents (laws, decisions of courts, other texts of administrative and normative character), as well as their official translations; official symbols of state (flag, emblem, anthem, award, monetary symbols, other official signs and symbols of state); information of events and facts.
- {{PD-Georgia}} – for works first published in Georgia and now in the public domain because a copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law of Georgia on Copyright and Neighboring Rights.
COM:TAG Germany
Germany
- {{PD-GermanGov}} – for public domain images from German statutes or other regulations.
- {{PD-BW}} – for publicly available service regulations ("Zentrale Dienstvorschrift") of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).
- {{PD-Coa-Germany}} – for German coats of arms of corporations governed by public law that are in the public domain according to German law because they are official works (§&5 Abs.1 UrhG).
- {{PD-Flag-Germany}} – for German flags of corporations governed by public law that are in the public domain according to German law because they are official works (§5 Abs.1 UrhG).
- {{PD-Seal-Germany}} – for German seals of corporations governed by public law that are in the public domain according to German law because they are official works (§5 Abs.1 UrhG).
- {{PD-VzKat}} – for road signs published as statutes or other regulations.
- {{PD-German stamps}} – for current German stamps.
- {{PD-Deutsche Bundespost stamps}} – for German stamps released as Deutsche Bundespost.
- {{PD-GDR stamps}} – for German stamps released as Deutsche Post der DDR.
- {{PD-Meyers}} – for images from the 4th edition of Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885–90).
- {{PD-Germany-§134}} – for literary works, works of music and scientific or technical images published by a legal entity under public law more than 70 years ago that do not mention the author.
- {{PD-Germany-§134-KUG}} – for photographs and works of art published by a legal entity under public law more than 70 years ago that do not mention the author.
- {{Data license Germany-attribution-2.0}} – for data from German authorities, very similar to CC BY-SA
- {{Data license Germany-Zero-2.0}} – for data from German authorities, very similar to CC0
COM:TAG Greece
Greece
- {{PD-GreekGov}} – for images which are part of official legislative, administrative or judicial documents issued by the Greek Government.
COM:TAG Haiti
Haiti
- {{PD-Haiti}} – General copyright protection last for 60 years.[2005 Article 20–24] Photographic works are protected for 25 years after the end of the year the work was created.[2005 Article 25]
COM:TAG Hong Kong
Hong Kong
- {{PD-HK}} – for work with copyright expired.
- {{PD-HK-factsheet}} – for work taken from the GovHK Fact Sheets website.[2]
COM:TAG Hungary
Hungary
- {{PD-Hungary}} – for works when a work public domain is in Hungary
- {{PD-HU-exempt}} – for works not eligible for copyright in Hungary.
- {{PD-Coa-Hungary}} – for official coats of arms of Hungarian cities.
- {{PD-HU-unknown}} - for anonymous works published before 1943
- {{PD-redsludge-hu}} – by photos taken by a staff photographer of the Hungarian Government and is part of the Ajka red sludge accident photo series
- {{PD-user-hu|username}} – for works released into the public domain by their creators when the creators are Hungarian Wikipedia users.
COM:TAG Iceland
Iceland
- {{PD-Iceland50}} – for Icelandic photos not considered to be "works of art" 50 years after they were created.
- {{PD-Iceland}} – for Icelandic photos not considered to be "works of art" 50 years after they were created.
- {{PD-IcelandGov}} – for official documents of Iceland or their translations.
- {{PD-IS-exempt}} – for works covered under {{IcelandGov}}, certain debates, and legal proceedings except collections of a single author's works.
- {{PD-Vegagerdin}} – for depictions of Icelandic road signs by Vegagerðin.
- {{PD-old-70}}
- {{PD-anon-70-IS}} – for works of art first published over 70 years ago where the author is unknown.
- {{PD-IS-currency}} – for Icelandic currency designed over 70 years ago.
- {{Icelandic stamp}} – for images of Icelandic stamps more than 70 years old.
COM:TAG India
India
- {{PD-India}} – India public domain images and sounds, 60 years after the end of the year of first publication for anonymous and government works and a few other categories, provided that the subject matter of the photo or recording is also not protected by copyright. Otherwise public domain 60 years after the author's death.
- {{PD-India-photo-1958}} – Photographs created before 1958 are in the public domain 50 years after creation.
- {{PD-India-URAA}} – For work that is public domain in the United States because it was first published in India (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days) and it was first published before 1978 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities or after 1978 without copyright notice and it was in the public domain in its home country India on the URAA date January 1, 1996.
- {{EdictGov-India}} – For edicts of the Government of India whose copyright have not expired. Subject to restrictions, these include laws, judgements, and Reports on the Table of the Legislature.
- {{Indian navy}} – For works from the Indian Navy.
- {{Indian Army}} – For works from the Indian Army.
- Works by the Government of India can be uploaded under {{GODL-India}} (central government only, not state governments). (under discussion, see template talk page).
- {{PD-TamilGov}} – Work in the public domain because it was nationalized by Tamil Nadu Government and released into the Public Domain.
COM:TAG Indonesia
Indonesia
- {{PD-IDGov}} – for works published and/or distributed by the government of Republic of Indonesia and fulfills the conditions of Article 43 of the 2014 Copyright Law on copyrights., see Commons:Licensing
- {{PD-IDOld-Art58}} – for works whose copyright has expired according to Article 58 of the 2014 Copyright Law
- {{PD-IDOld-Art59}} – for works whose copyright has expired according to Article 59 of the 2014 Copyright Law
- {{PD-IDUnknown}} – for works by unknown authors whose copyright has expired according to section (2) and (3) from Articles 60 of the 2014 Copyright Law
- {{PD-IDNoCopyright}} – no copyright according to Article 42 of the 2014 Copyright Law
COM:TAG Iran
Iran
- {{PD-Iran}} – copyright of photographs and movies lasts 30 years from the date of publication or presentation.
COM:TAG Iraq
Iraq
- {{PD-Iraq}} – photos 50 years after publication, starting from the publication date.
COM:TAG Ireland
Ireland
- {{PD-IrishGov}} – Irish government works are generally released to the public domain 50 years after creation.
- {{PD-Ireland-anon}} – For works whose author remains unknown and at least 70 years have passed since it was available to the public.
COM:TAG Israel
Israel
- {{PD-Israel}} – according to Israel's copyright law, works are released to the public domain 70 years after their author's death, starting from January 1st which occurs after the date of death. Photographs taken before May 2008 are released to the public domain 50 years after their creation, starting from January 1st which occurs after the day in which the photograph was taken. Photographs taken by a public authority (i.e. the government and its affiliated bodies) are released to public domain 50 years after their publication, starting from January 1st which occurs after the date of the first publication. According to the new Israeli copyright law, effective since May 2008, photographs are no longer an exception, and are released to the public domain 70 years after their photographer's death, unless taken by a public authority in which case the previous arrangement remains.
- {{PD-IsraelGov}} – specific for the expiration of the State of Israel's copyrights (also included in the last section of {{tl:PD-Israel}})
- {{Money-IL}} – for Israeli banknotes and coins.
- {{Insignia-Israel}} – for flag, emblems, coats of arms or some other official symbol which were declared a protected symbol in Israel.
- {{FoP-Israel}} - "Broadcasting, or copying by way of photography, drawing, sketch or similar visual description, of an architectural work, a work of sculpture or work of applied art, are permitted where the aforesaid work is permanently situated in a public place."
COM:TAG Italy
Italy
- {{PD-Italy}} – for simple (non-artistic) photographs originating in Italy for which the copyright has expired.
- {{PD-Italy-audio}} – for audio recording both created and published in Italy at least fifty years ago, of a work which is itself in the public domain.
- For works where the author died at least seventy years ago, {{PD-old}} applies.
- For anonymous or pseudonymous works published at least 70 years ago, use {{Anonymous-EU}}.
- {{PD-Italy-EdictGov}} – for most edicts of the Italian government.
- {{PD-ItalyGov}} – for works published by the Italian administration or by Italian nonprofit organisations.
- {{Italy-CAD-OBD}} - for works published by any Italian administration without an explicit license.
COM:TAG Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast
- {{PD-Cote d'Ivoire}} The copyright term is generally 70 years after the author's death or 70 years after publication.
COM:TAG Japan
Japan
- {{PD-Japan-oldphoto}} – for Japanese photos published before 1 January 1957, or photographed before 1 January 1947.
- {{PD-Japan}} – for Japanese non-photographic works 50 years after the death of the creator (there being multiple creators, the creator who dies last), or 50 years after publication for anonymous or pseudonymous authors. Valid for works whose author died before 1968.
- {{PD-Japan-film}} – for films produced in Japan prior to 1953.
- {{PD-Japan-organization}} – for images of the works in names of organizations/companies/corporations 50 years after the publication. Valid for works by the name of organizations which were published before 1968.
- {{PD-Japan-exempt}} – for works exempt from copyright in Japan.
- {{GJSTU1}} - For contents made available on government websites under the Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use (Version 1.0).
- {{GJSTU-2.0}} - For contents made available on government websites under the Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use (Ver.2.0); compatible with CC BY 4.0.
Non-copyright tags:
- {{FoP-Japan}} may be added to a picture that includes architectural works, which are allowed under the "freedom of panorama" rule, but other tags should be given to show the picture's copyright status in Japan and the United States.
- {{AerialPhotograph-mlitJP}} – The copyright holder, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan, allows anyone to use the image for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed.
COM:TAG Jordan
Jordan
- {{PD-Jordan}} – for photographs created prior to 1975.
- {{PD-Jordan-money}} - for banknotes or coins created prior to 1968.
COM:TAG Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
- {{PD-KZ-exempt}} – for official documents (laws, court decisions and other texts of a legislative, administrative, judicial or diplomatic nature) together with official translations thereof, state emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs), works of folklore, communications concerning events and facts that have an informational character.
COM:TAG Kenya
Kenya
- {{PD-Kenya}} – for works whose author died more than 50 years ago (for photographs 50 years after first publication).
COM:TAG Kosovo
Kosovo
- {{PD-KosovoGov}} – for public domain Kosovar official works, state symbols, stamps, money etc.
COM:TAG Kuwait
Kuwait
- {{PD-Kuwait}} – photographs, films and two dimensional artistic works 50 years after publication, starting from the end of the publication year.
COM:TAG Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
- In general, {{PD-Kyrgyzstan}} applies.
- {{PD-KG-exempt}} – for official documents (laws, resolutions, decisions, etc.) as well as official translations thereof; State emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, orders, monetary signs and etc.); Works of folklore; Information on the news of the day or information on the current events that are of the common press-information character; The results obtained with the help of technical means for the production of a certain type without creative activity of a man directly targeted for creation of an individual work (as amended by Law #120 from November 6, 1999).
COM:TAG Latvia
Latvia
- {{PD-LV-exempt}} – for official Latvian State symbols and insignia (flags, coats of arms, anthems, and awards).
COM:TAG Lebanon
Lebanon
- {{PD-Lebanon}} – photos and two dimensional artistic works 50 years after publication, starting from the end of the publication year after which attribution is still required forever.
- {{PD-Lebanon-Photo}}. Use this tag only for photos first published before 1949.
COM:TAG Libya
Libya
- {{PD-Libya}} – photos 5 years starting from the date of first publication of the work.
COM:TAG Lithuania
Lithuania
- {{PD-LT-exempt}} – for official Lithuanian State symbols and insignia (flags, coats-of-arms, anthems, banknote designs, and other State symbols and insignia).
- {{PD-old-70}} – for works where the author died more than 70 years ago
COM:TAG Macau
Macau
- {{PD-MacaoGov}} – for official works of Macau.
- {{PD-MacaoGov-text}} – text is in the public domain because official texts shall not benefit from protection.
- {{PD-MO}} – for works 50 years after the author's death or 50 years after creation if authorship unknown.
- {{PD-MO-old-art}} – copyright in works of applied art shall lapse 25 years after the completion of the work.
- {{PD-MO-old-audiovisual}} – copyright in an audiovisual work shall lapse 50 years after its disclosure.
- {{PD-MO-old-broadcast}} – rights of broadcasting organizations shall lapse 20 years after the broadcast.
- {{PD-MO-old-media}} – rights of producers of phonograms and videograms shall lapse 50 years after fixation.
- {{PD-MO-old-photo}} – copyright in photographic works shall lapse 25 years after their completion.
COM:TAG Malawi
Malawi
- {{PD-Malawi}} – for following types of works:
- a) photographs after 25 years from the end of the year of first publication;
- b) computer programs 10 years after the end of the year in which they were first sold, leased or licensed;
- c) audio-visual works 50 years from the end of the year of first publication;
- d) other works 50 years from the end of the year of the author's death.
COM:TAG Malaysia
Malaysia
COM:TAG Mauritius
Mauritius
- {{PD-Mauritius}} – photographs 25 years after creation, audio-visual works 50 years after publication, other works 50 years after the author's death.
COM:TAG Mexico
Mexico
- {{PD-Mexico}} – author died before 1952 or government works over 100 years old.
- {{PD-Coa-Mexico}} – coats of arms.
- {{PD-MX-exempt}} – shields, flags or emblems of the Mexican government, or any other organization officially recognized.
- {{PD-Mexico-NIP}} – all information published at http://fuente.presidencia.gob.mx/ before April 2006.
- {{LGACDMX}} – all open information published at "cdmx.gob.mx" websites.
COM:TAG Moldova
Moldova
- {{PD-MD-exempt}} – for official documents (laws, court decisions, etc.) or to the official translations thereof, state emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs, etc.), folklore expressions, daily news and facts of simple informational nature.
- {{PD-Moldova}} – Moldovan or Soviet work first published in USSR or Moldova and in the public domain because its copyright has expired: photographic or cinematographic work and fifty years have passed since the year of its production, or another type of work and fifty years have passed since the year of the creator's death.
COM:TAG Mongolia
Mongolia
- {{PD-Mongolia}} – applies to works first published in Mongolia: applied art 25 years after publication. Other works 50 years after the author's death. Anonymous and pseudonymous works and works created by legal persons 50 years after publication.
- {{PD MN-exempt}} – for exemptions listed in the Not Protected section.[2006 Article 8]
COM:TAG Montenegro
Montenegro
- {{PD-MNEGov}} – for public domain Montenegro official works
- {{PD-SCGGov}} – for public domain Serbian-Montenegro official works, state symbols, stamps, money etc.
COM:TAG Morocco
Morocco
- {{PD-Morocco}} – All works are protected for 70 years after the author's death.
- {{PD-Morocco-exempt}} – Works not subject to copyright under Article 8 of the Law No. 34‐05 on Copyright and Related Rights.
- {{Data.gov.ma}} – Works published on Data.gov.ma, the government's open data portal
COM:TAG Myanmar
Myanmar
COM:TAG Namibia
Namibia
- {{PD-Namibia}} – photos, films and computer programs 50 years after publication, starting from the end of the publication year. Other works 50 years after the author's death.
COM:TAG Nepal
Nepal
- {{PD-Nepal}} – for following types of works:
- a) anonymous work or pseudonymous work – after 50 years from the date of its publication;
- b) work created on payment of remuneration at the initiation or direction of any person or organization – 50 years from the date of its publication;
- c) photographic work or work of applied art – 25 years from the year of its creation;
- d) other work – 50 years from the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
As per the Nepal Copyright Act, 2002, any thought, religion, process, concept, principle, court judgement, administrative decision, methods of operation, folk song, folk tale, proverb and general data is not protected.[8/2002 Section 4]
COM:TAG Netherlands
Netherlands
- {{PD-NL-gemeentewapen}} – for coats of arms of (no longer existing) municipalities, provinces and the country itself
- {{PD-NL-gemeentevlag}} – for flags of (no longer existing) municipalities, provinces and the country itself
- {{PD-NL-Gov}} (deprecated) – for all works communicated to the public by or on behalf of the public authorities (government), unless the copyright has been reserved explicitly, either in a general manner by law, decree or ordinance, or in a specific case by a notice on the work itself or at the communication to the public
COM:TAG New Zealand
New Zealand
- {{PD-New Zealand}} – copyright has expired or it is not subject to copyright
- {{NZTA-Sign-Spec}} – for traffic signs used by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA)
COM:TAG Niger
Niger
- {{PD-Niger}} – for works made in Niger whose copyright has expired
- {{PD-NigerienGov}} – for works created by the Nigerien government that do not fall under copyright protection.
COM:TAG Nigeria
Nigeria
- {{PD-Nigeria}} – for following types of works:
- a) cinematograph films or photographs 50 years after first publication;
- b) sound recordings 50 years after creation;
- c) broadcasts 50 years after first taking place;
- d) other works 70 years after author's death or in case of governmental or corporative authorship – 70 years after first publication.
COM:TAG North Korea
North Korea
- {{PD-North Korea}} – Public domain work whose copyright has expired
- {{PD-KPGov}} – Government or other work in the public domain
- {{PD-Korea-1910-1945}} – Work made while Korea was under Japanese occupation
- {{PD-Korea-1910-1945-photo}} – Photograph made while Korea was under Japanese occupation
- {{PD-Korea-1910-1945-film}} – Film made while Korea was under Japanese occupation
COM:TAG North Macedonia
North Macedonia
- {{PD-North Macedonia}} – for works of the following types:
- a) works of folk literature and folk art
- b) a work of known authorship and the author died before January 1, 1946
- c) an anonymous work and it was published before January 1, 1946
- d) a photograph or a work of applied art published before January 1, 1971
COM:TAG Norway
Norway
- {{PD-Statens vegvesen}} – for Norwegian road signs from the website of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen)[3]
- {{PD-Norway50}} – Norwegian photos not considered to be "works of art" 50 years after they were created, provided that the author died more than 15 years ago or is unknown
- {{PD-Norway70}} – Images considered to be "works of art" become public domain 70 years after the author's death or publication if the author is unknown.
- {{Norwegian coat of arms}} – Norwegian coats of arms
- {{Kirkeinfo}} – photos from the media database of the Church of Norway.[4]
- {{PD-NorwayGov}} – part of a decision or a statement by an authority or a public body of Norway
- {{Met.no}} – images without a byline from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
- {{NLOD}} - a licensing agreement public authorities can use when making public data available
COM:TAG Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
- {{PD-Ottoman}} – for works published in the Ottoman Empire, all of which are currently in the public domain.
COM:TAG Pakistan
Pakistan
- {{PD-Pakistan}} – for public domain works first published in Pakistan. According to Pakistani copyright laws, all photographs enter the public domain fifty years after they were published, and all non-photographic works enter the public domain fifty years after the death of the creator.
COM:TAG Palestine
Palestine
{{PD-State of Palestine}} - According to the basic law of Palestine and the Palestinian Copyright Act of 1911, the the copyright of anonymous and pseudonymous works shall be protected for 70 years after the date of their publication and according to the 1921 Trademarks Ordinance and 1938 any governmental items including the national flag of the region is unable to be trademarked or copyrighted.
COM:TAG Peru
Peru
- {{PD-old-70}} - For works by authors who died more than 70 years ago if them were died since 1946.
- {{PD-anon-expired}} - For anonymous works made public more than 95 years ago if this one was renewed on the URAA date.
- {{PD-PE-exempt}} - For works exempt from copyright under Peruvian law. Including documents under the TUPA standard.
- {{PD-PE-signs}} - For reproductions from Manual de Dispositivos de Control de Tránsito Automotor en Calles y Carreteras of road signals, a official document also exempt from copyright under Peruvian law.
- {{PD-PE-insignia}} - For reproductions from official texts of official insignias (flags, coat of arms and logos), exempt from copyright under Peruvian law.
- {{PD-PCP-SL}} - For works carried out by the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path. Since it does not have rights to exploit its works outside the territorial legal framework as VRAEM and under an organization that is exempt from obtaining ownership of its works in Peruvian territory, according to the Law of Extinction of Property, the constitution and Art. 30 of DL 822: Indecopi is not legally permitted to protect their "copyright patrimonial rights" them under these criteria. It should be noted that the extinguishment of ownership applies to all "furniture", which in Article 886, paragraph 6 of the Civil Code (as 2018) includes as "furniture" "copyright patrimonial rights".
- {{TOO-Peru}} - For non-original works like simple designs and logotypes.
Peruvian Government
[edit]Some Peruvian government or administrative entities works are published under free licenses:
- According to this guide, except as otherwise indicated, works from Portal Nacional de Datos Abiertos (National Open Data Platform) or another interoperable open data platform are subject to templates: {{ODbL}} or {{PD-because|Per COM:Peru, the file from peruvian administrative acts on their Open Data platform is free of rights.}}.
- Photographic works from Flickr account of the municipality of Miraflores are under CC-BY 2.5 PE. Tagged as {{CC-PE-MunicipalidadMirafloresFlickr}}.
Old works under 1961 law
[edit]For old works whose protection lasted until 1 January 1996 under Manuel Prado Copyright law of 1961 are PD in U.S. and Peru (before the repeal of the law in 23 May 1996 and URAA date):
- {{PD-Peru-1961law}} - For peruvian authors died prior to 1946 (or that the rights were not inherited for those who died before 31 December 1965).
- {{PD-Peru-organization}} - For peruvian government and juridical organizations works released prior to 31 December 1970.
- {{PD-Peru-photo}} - For all non-individual photographs disclosed in Peru prior to 31 December 1975 (or created more than 70 years ago in 1996 law).
- {{PD-Peru-anonymous}} for anonymous works prior to 31 December 1980 and no register the name of the author in Registro Nacional de Derecho de Autor 15 years following publication.
COM:TAG Philippines
Philippines
- {{PD-Philippines}} – for public domain Philippine images whose copyrights expired or released into the public domain.
- {{PD-PhilippinesGov}} – for works of the government of the Philippines exempted from copyright as stated by Republic Act No. 8293.
- {{PD-PhilippinesPubDoc}} – for works that are derived from a public document, as stated at Section 175 of Republic Act. No. 8293.
- {{WorkDepicted-PD-PhilippinesGov}} – for images that depict a work of the government of the Philippines exempted from copyright as stated by Republic Act No. 8293.
COM:TAG Poland
Poland
- {{PD-Poland}} – for public domain Polish photographs published in Poland without a copyright notice prior to May 23, 1994.
- {{PD-Polishsymbol}} – for public domain Polish government documents, materials, signs and symbols.
- See also non-PD Polish copyleft license tags: {{PolishSenateCopyright}}, {{PolishPresidentCopyright}}
COM:TAG Portugal
Portugal
- {{PD-Portugal-URAA}} for compatibility between the Uruguay Round Agreements Act and works in the public domain in Portugal.
- {{PD-Portugal-photo}} for photographs in the public domain.
- {{IPPAR}} – for images courtesy of IGESPAR.
- {{PD-Portugal-exempt}} for copyright exceptions in Portugal
COM:TAG Romania
Romania
- {{PD-RO-exempt}} – for: (a) the ideas, theories, concepts, scientific discoveries, procedures, working methods, or mathematical concepts as such and inventions, contained in a work, whatever the manner of the adoption, writing, explanation or expression thereof; (b) official texts of a political, legislative, administrative or judicial nature, and official translations thereof; (c) official symbols of the State, public authorities and organizations, such as armorial bearings, seals, flags, emblems, shields, badges and medals; (d) means of payment; (e) news and press information; (f) simple facts and data; (g) the photographs of letters, deeds, documents of any kind, technical drawings and other similar papers.
- {{PD-RO-photo}} – for: (a) photographs series taken before 1986; (b) photographs taken before 1991.
- {{PD-RO-1956}} – for: (a) encyclopedias, dictionaries, corpora issued before 1976; (b) artistic photographs series taken before 1986; (c) artistic photographs taken before 1991.
- {{PD-Romania}} – for: works which have expired in Romania prior to 1996 (usually prior to 1946) under the terms specified in the 1956 law
- {{PD-user-ro|username}} – for works released into the public domain by their creators when the creators are Romanian Wikipedia users.
COM:TAG Russia
Russia
==== PD tags ====
See also: PD Russia license tags
Since January 1, 2008, intellectual property rights are regulated by Russian law 230-FL of 2006: Part IV of the Civil Code, together with the Russian law 231-FL of 2006: Implementation act for Part IV of the Civil Code. This new law replaced all previous IP laws in Russia.
- In general, {{PD-Russia}} applies.
- {{PD-RusEmpire}} for works that was published on territory of the Russian Empire (Russian Republic) except for territories of the Grand Duchy of Finland and Congress Poland before 7 November 1917 and wasn't re-published for 30 days following initial publications on the territory of the Soviet Russia or any other states.
- {{PD-Russia-1996}} - This work is in the public domain both in Russia and USA because:
- The author died before January 1, 1942.
- The author died between January 1, 1942 and January 1, 1946, did not work during the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II) and did not participate in it.
- The work was originally published anonymously or under a pseudonym before January 1, 1943 and the name of the author did not become known during 50 years after publication.
- The work was originally published anonymously or under a pseudonym between January 1, 1943 and January 1, 1946, and the name of the author did not become known during 70 years after publication.
- The work is non-amateur cinema or television film (or shot, or fragment from it), which was first shown between January 1, 1929 and January 1, 1946.
- {{PD-RU-exempt}} for state symbols and signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs) of Russian Federation.
- {{PD-Brockhaus&Efron}} – for images from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890–1907).
For works first published not only in the RSFSR but in one of the other SSRs too, or simultaneously in various republics of Soviet Union, see the corresponding successor state of the Soviet Union. For instance, for a Soviet work first published in the Ukrainian SSR, see the entry Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Ukraine:Copyright tags. ({{PD-Ukraine}}, in this case.)
Creative Commons tags
[edit]COM:TAG San Marino
San Marino
- {{PD-San MarinoGov}} for the reproduction, even in their entirety, of the acts of State or government or judicial acts.
- {{PD-San Marino}} for works in the public domain in San Marino
COM:TAG Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
- {{PD-Saudi Arabia}} – photos, films, sound and artistic works 25 years after publication, starting from the publication date.
- {{PD-Saudi Arabia Gov}} - laws and judicial judgments, decisions of administrative bodies, international agreements and all official documents, as well as the official translations thereof
COM:TAG Serbia
Serbia
- {{PD-SerbiaGov}} – for public domain Serbian official works, state symbols, money etc.
- {{PD-Serbia}} – for works whose author died before 1954 or published before 1954 if anonymous (public domain prior to introduction of the new law in 2004)
- {{PD-SCGGov}} – for public domain Serbian-Montenegro official works, state symbols, money etc.
COM:TAG Seychelles
Seychelles
- {{PD-Seychelles}} – for the following types of works:
- a) photographs and films 25 years after first publication;
- b) sound recordings 25 years after creation;
- c) literary, musical or artistic works other than photographs 25 years after the author's death.
COM:TAG Singapore
Singapore
- {{PD-SG-artisticwork}} – for published and unpublished artistic works other than photographs.
- {{PD-SG-broadcast}} – for television and sound broadcasts, and cable programmes included in cable programme services.
- {{PD-SG-edition}} – for published editions of a work or works.
- {{PD-SG-film}} – for cinematograph films.
- {{PD-SG-lifetimepub}} – for literary, dramatic and musical works published in the author's lifetime.
- {{PD-SG-photo}} or {{PD-Singapore}} – for photographs.
- {{PD-SG-posthumouspub}} – for posthumously published literary, dramatic and musical works, and engravings.
- {{PD-SG-soundrec}} – for sound recordings.
- {{PD-SG-unknownauthor}} – for anonymous and pseudonymous literary, dramatic and musical works.
- {{FoP-Singapore}} – for a work that may be free under Singapore's freedom of panorama rules. A free license or public domain tag is also needed.
COM:TAG Slovakia
Slovakia
- {{PD-SlovakGov}} – for public domain Slovak official works, public documents, etc.
COM:TAG Slovenia
Slovenia
- {{PD-Slovenia}} – for works whose author died before 1954 or published before 1954 if anonymous (public domain prior to introduction of the new law in 1995).
- {{PD-Slovenia-exempt}} – for non-protected creations in Slovenia (ideas, principles, discoveries; official legislative, administrative and judicial texts; folk literary and artistic creations.)
COM:TAG Somalia
Somalia
COM:TAG South Africa
South Africa
- {{PD-SAGov}} – Work of the South African Government that was published more than 50 years ago.
- {{PD-South-Africa}} – for photographs from South Africa 50 years after publication.
- {{PD-South-Africa-exempt}} – for (images of or from) South African official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature.
COM:TAG South Korea
South Korea
- {{PD-South Korea}} – for works whose author died more than 70 years ago or published in the name of an organization more than 70 years ago.
- {{PD-KoreaGov}} – for government works not protected by copyright laws
- {{PD-Korea-1910-1945}} – Work made while Korea was under Japanese occupation
- {{PD-Korea-1910-1945-photo}} – Photograph made while Korea was under Japanese occupation
- {{PD-Korea-1910-1945-film}} – Film made while Korea was under Japanese occupation
- {{KOAL}} - Permissive type of Korean Open Access License
- {{KOGL}} - Type 1 of Korea Open Government License
COM:TAG Spain
Spain
- {{PD-Spain-photo}} – for simple photographs taken at least 25 years ago
- {{PD-SpanishGov}} – for some works by the Spanish government, like laws
- {{PD-SpanishGov-money}} - for images of the former Spanish pesetas currency
- {{PD-La Moncloa}} – for content from www.lamoncloa.gob.es which was selected or coordinated by the Secretary of State for Communications (only valid for images uploaded before 26 November 2012)
- {{Attribution-Catalonia}} – for content from the Parliament of Catalonia (Parlament de Catalunya)
- {{Attribution-IGN}} - for CC-BY 4.0 licensed maps or other content from Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain's National Geographic Institute)
COM:TAG Sudan
Sudan
- {{PD-Sudan}} – photos and films 25 years after publication, starting from the publication date.
- {{PD-Sudan-Photo}}
COM:TAG Sweden
Sweden
- {{PD-Sweden-photo}} – for images taken by unknown Swedish photographers before 1954 and for public domain photographic images, not photographic work, of Swedish origin taken before 1974
- {{PD-Transportstyrelsen}} – for Swedish road signs from the website of the Swedish Transport Agency.[5]
- {{PD-Ugglan}} – for images from the 2nd edition of Nordisk familjebok (Sweden, 1904–1926)
- {{PD-Nordens Flora}} – for images from Nordens Flora (Sweden, Author: C. A. M. Lindman, 1917–1926).
- {{PD-SFJ}} – for images from Svenska Familj-Journalen (1864–1887)
- {{PD-Sjöfartsverket}} – for Swedish maritime fairway sign produced by the Swedish Maritime Administration.[6]
- {{PD-Sweden-URL9}} – for reproductions of law, decision, or report issued by a Swedish public authority (svensk myndighet) or an official translation of such a text.
COM:TAG Switzerland
Switzerland
- {{PD-Switzerland-official}} – for Swiss official documents, currency or patents. See template for details.
- {{PD-Coa-Switzerland}} – for coat of arms of a Swiss Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (corporation governed by public law).
- {{Attribution-Swisstopo}} — for files from the website of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, including map.geo.admin.ch.
- {{PD-Switzerland-old-70}} public domain because the author(s) died more than 70 years ago.
- {{PD-Switzerland-old-unknown}} for works published anonymously at least 70 years ago.
- {{PD-Switzerland-photo-non-individual-50-years}} for photographs created in Switzerland more than 50 years ago that do not have the individual character that is required by law for copyright protection; see template for details. The template should only be used if no other license is possible.
- {{PD-Switzerland-photo}} – Legacy template for photographs first published in Switzerland that do not have the individual character that is required by law for copyright protection. Only applicable for existing use on Commons and for Wikimedia projects that started before April 1, 2020; see template for details. Do not use this template for new uploads.
In Switzerland copyright protection expires 70 years after the death of the author with the exception of computer programs, the protection of which ends 50 years after the death of the author.
COM:TAG Syria
Syria
- {{PD-Syria}} – Under the 2001 law, photographic work was protected for 10 years starting from the production date. As Syria Joined Berne Convention on November 2004, photographic works produced starting from 1994 should be protected for 25 years starting from the production date (minimum protection period set by Berne Convention). Under the 2013 law, protection is for the author's life + 50 years. Photographic work produced before 1994 is public domain.
COM:TAG Taiwan
Taiwan
- {{PD-Taiwan}} – for images in the public domain according to the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- {{PD-China}} – for images in the public domain according to the People's Republic of China (mainland) and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- {{PD-China-film}} – for movies or images from movies published in China more than 50 years ago according to Mainland China and Taiwan.
- {{PD-ROC-oldphoto}} – for old photographs in the public domain.
- {{PD-ROC-exempt}} – for files in the public domain according to the Republic of China for free of copyright.
- {{PD-ROC-official}} – for the attachments of the laws of the Republic of China from the website of the Legislative Yuan law system.
- {{PD-ROC-Presidential Office Gazette}} – for the Presidential Office Gazette from 20 May 1948 to present by the Presidential Office of the Republic of China.[7]
- {{PD-ROC-Traffic Signs}} – for Taiwanese traffic signs from the website of the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.[8]
- {{PD-ROC-Traffic Markings}} – for Taiwanese traffic markings from the website of the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.[8]
- {{OGDL}} – for data released by government agency, government-owned business, public school and administrative legal entity and offered for use and re-use under the Open Government Data License, version 1.0.
- {{GWOIA}} – for information obtained from the websites of government agency, government-owned business, public school and administrative legal entity in Taiwan that includes the Government Website Open Information Announcement.
See also Commons:Copyright rules by territory/China:Copyright tags for works before and after 1949.
COM:TAG Tajikistan
Tajikistan
- {{PD-TJ-exempt}} – for formal documents (laws, judgements, other texts of legal, administrative and judicial nature), and also their official translations; state symbols and signs (flags, coats of arms, awards, banknotes and so on); communications concerning events and facts that have informational character; works of folk arts
COM:TAG Thailand
Thailand
- {{PD-Thailand}} – for works from Thailand, which have different copyright terms depending on type, usually 50 years after the creator's death or 50 years after publication.
- {{PD-TH-exempt}} – for works ineligible for copyright in Thailand, including laws and official government documents.
COM:TAG Tunisia
Tunisia
The Tunisian law n°94-36 of February 24, 1994 on literary and artistic property stipulates that:
- Copyright shall subsist for the lifetime of the author and for 50 Gregorian years counted from January 1 of the year following the author's death…
- In the case of works of joint authorship, the date of the death of the last surviving author…
- In the case of anonymous or pseudonymous works, copyright shall subsist for 50 years as from the date on which the work has been lawfully made available to the public…
- In the case of photographic works, copyright shall only subsist for 25 Gregorian years as from the year during which the work was made.
COM:TAG Turkey
Turkey
- {{PD-Turkey}} for works whose author died more than 70 years ago, and anonymous works published more than 70 years ago.
- {{PD-TR-currency}} for images of Turkish currency.
- {{Legislation-TR}} for Turkish legislation
COM:TAG Uganda
Uganda
- {{PD-Uganda}} – for works meeting one of the following criteria:
- a) photographic works 50 years after creation;
- b) computer programs, audio-visual works or sound recordings 50 years after publication
- c) literary, musical or artistic works published before January 1st, 1954, whose author died before Jan 1st, 2004;
- d) other works 50 years after the author's death.
COM:TAG Ukraine
Ukraine
- {{PD-Ukraine}} is in effect towards works first published before January 1, 1951, and the creator (if known) died before that date). This is the effect of the retroactive Ukrainian copyright law of 1993 and the copyright from 50 to 70 years in 2001.). The final conclusion is #.4 in Chapter VI Ukrainian Copyright Law:
#.4. It shall be established that as from the day on which this Law enters into force, the terms of copyright protection, stipulated in Article 28 of this Law and parts 1 and 2 of Article 44 of this Law, shall apply in all cases where the 50-year period of copyright validity after the author's death or the period of validity of related rights has not expired prior to the date of entry into force of this Law.
A Ukrainian or Soviet work that is in the public domain in Ukraine according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in Ukraine in 1995, e.g. if it was published before 1945 and the creator died before that year, and no copyright was registered in the U.S. This is the combined effect of the retroactive Ukrainian copyright law, Ukraine's joining the Berne Convention in 1995, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.[9]
- {{PD-UA-exempt}} for daily news or details of current events that constitute regular press information; works of folk art (folklore); official documents of a political, legislative or administrative nature (laws, decrees, resolutions, court awards, State standards, etc.) issued by government authorities within their powers, and official translations thereof; State symbols of Ukraine, government awards; symbols and signs of government authorities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations; symbols of territorial communities; symbols and signs of enterprises, institutions and organizations; bank notes; transport schedules, TV and radio broadcast schedules, telephone directories and other similar databases that do not meet the originality criteria and to which the sui generis right (a particular or special right) is applicable. Also for representation of an civil award or decoration of the government of Ukraine.
- {{PD-UAGovDoc}} for official documents of a political, legislative or administrative nature (laws, decrees, resolutions, court awards, State standards, etc.) issued by government authorities within their powers, and official translations thereof.
- {{PD-UAGov-Money}} for unit of currencies issued by Ukraine.
- {{PD-UAexMilitary}} for works of a Ukrainian military or Ministry of Defense if it is symbol or sign of government authorities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations.
COM:TAG United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
- {{PD-United Arab Emirates}} – photographic works 25 years after creation or published before 1992.
- {{PD-United Arab Emirates stamp}} – postage stamps 50 years after publication year or issued before 1977.
COM:TAG United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The following are copyright tags/ templates for UK works. If you are uploading a UK-based work to Commons, please find the corresponding tag and add it to the licensing information for the item you are uploading (copy and paste, if you like). When you then save the file, these tags will expand to produce and appropriate text for that kind of license.
- {{PD-UK-unknown}} – old UK images of unknown authorship where copyright has expired
- {{PD-Britannica}} – images from the 12th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica or earlier.
- {{PD-UKGov}} – UK Crown copyright images where copyright has expired (typically works created prior to 1974)
- {{OldOS}} – Ordnance Survey maps published in the UK over 50 years ago.
- {{OS OpenData}} – Ordnance Survey maps published in the UK.
The UK's Open Government Licence (OGL) is a simple set of terms and conditions that facilitates the re-use of a wide range of public sector information free of charge. Since 2010, almost all information owned by the UK Crown is offered for use and re-use under the Open Government Licence. The licence is also used by other bodies, including local government.
The Open Parliament License (OPL) facilitates the free use of material made available by the House of Commons or the House of Lords in which copyright or database right subsists. Almost all material produced by Parliament and its committees is governed by the Open Parliament License.
COM:TAG United States
United States of America
- {{PD-US}} – US work that is in the public domain in the US for an unspecified reason, but presumably because it was published in the US before 1929.
- {{PD-US-expired}} – published anywhere (or registered with the US Copyright Office) before 1929 and public domain in the US (preferred over {{PD-US}}).
- {{PD-1996}} – public domain in its source country on January 1, 1996 and in the United States.
- {{PD-US-not renewed}} – US work published and copyrighted in the United States between 1929 and 1963, with its copyright not renewed.
- {{PD-US-no notice}} – US work published in the US between 1929 and 1978 but without a copyright notice.
- {{PD-US-no notice advertisement}} – advertisement published in the US between 1929 and 1978 in a collective work without a copyright notice specific to the advertisement.
- {{PD-US-1978-89}} – published in the United States between 1978 and March 1, 1989 but with neither copyright notice nor registration within 5 years.
- {{PD-US-unpublished}} – for works that were never published anywhere before 2003 and whose author died before 1954 or, if the author's year of death is unknown or inapplicable, were created before 1904.
- {{PD-US-record-expired}} – for sound recordings that were first published before January 1, 1924.
- {{PD-Edison Records}} – for public domain sound recordings from Edison Records.
- {{PD-EdictGov}} – for all edicts of government, which are in the public domain in the United States.
- {{PD-US-Codes-and-Standards-as-Statutory-Law}} – for US standards and codes that have become edicts of government when adopted, thereby losing copyright protection.
- {{PD-US-Medical imaging}} - medical imaging created in the United States without any particular originality or creativity to make it copyrightable.
See also #US States and Territories
US Government agencies
[edit]- {{PD-USGov}} – for images created by the US Federal Government that are ineligible for copyright.
Judicial Branch
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-Judiciary}} – for federal Court case documents.
Legislative Branch
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-Congress}} – for public domain images from the United States Congress.
- {{PD-USGov-Congress-AOC}} – for public domain images from the Architect of the Capitol.
- {{PD-USGov-Congress-Speaker}} – for public domain images from the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- {{PD-USGov-GAO}} – for public domain media from the General Accounting Office.
- See also #US Library of Congress public domain collections
Department of Agriculture
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-USDA}} – for public domain images from the United States Department of Agriculture.
- {{PD-USGov-USDA-ARS}} – for public domain images from the Agricultural Research Service.
- {{PD-USGov-USDA-FS}} – for public domain images from the Forest Service.
- {{PD-USGov-USDA-NAL}} – for public domain images from the National Agricultural Library.
- {{PD-USGov-USDA-NRCS}} – for public domain images from the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
- {{PD-USGov-FSA}} – for images from the defunct Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information.
Department of Commerce
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DOC}} – for public domain images from the Department of Commerce.
- {{PD-USGov-DOC-Census}} – public domain files from the US Census Bureau.
- {{PD-USGov-NIST}} – for public domain images from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- {{PD-USGov-NOAA}} – for public domain images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- {{PD-NWS}} – for public domain media from the National Weather Service.
- {{PD-US-patent}} – for public domain images released under US patent regulations.
Department of Defense
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-Military}} – for public domain images from the US military or Department of Defense.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Air Force}} – for public domain images from the US Air Force.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Air National Guard}} – for works of the Air National Guard.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Army}} – for public domain images from the US Army.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACE}} – for public domain images from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACMH}} – for public domain images from the US Army Center for Military History.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USAIOH}} – for public domain images from the US Army Institute of Heraldry.
- {{PD-USGov-Military award}} – for public domain images of military medals.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Badge}} – for public domain images of military badges.
- {{PD-USCG}} – for public domain images from the US Coast Guard.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-DVIC}} – for media from the Defense Visual Information Center.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Marines}} – for public domain images from the US Marine Corps.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-MDA}} – for public domain images from the Missile Defense Agency.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} – for public domain images from the US Navy.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-National Guard}} – for public domain images from the US National Guard.
- {{PD-USGov-Military-NGA}} – for public domain data and images from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
- {{PD-USGov-NRO}} – for public domain images from the National Reconnaissance Office.
- {{PD-USGov-NSA}} – for public domain images from the National Security Agency.
- {{PD-WSMRM}} – for images from the White Sands Missile Range Museum website.
Department of Education
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-ED}} – for public domain images from the Department of Education.
Department of Energy
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DOE}} – for public domain images from the Department of Energy.
- {{PD-LosAlamos}} – for DOE public domain images from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- {{PD-USGov-ARM}} – for public domain images from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program.
Department of Health and Human Services
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-HHS}} – for public domain images from the Department of Health and Human Services.
- {{PD-USGov-HHS-CDC}} – for public domain images from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- {{PD-USGov-HHS-NIOSH}} – for public domain images from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
- {{PD-USGov-FDA}} – for public domain images from the Food and Drug Administration.
- {{PD-USGov-HHS-NIH}} or {{PD-USGov-NIH}} – for public domain media from the National Institutes of Health.
- {{PD-USGov-NIH-NIAID}} – for public domain images from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
- {{PD-USGov-NIH-NIAID-Videos}} – for public domain images from a list of public domain videos of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
- {{PD-USGov-NCBI-scienceprimer}} – for public domain images from the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Science Primer.
- {{PD-USGov-NIH-NIAID}} – for public domain images from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
- {{PD-USGov-PHS}} – for public domain images from the United States Public Health Service.
- {{PD-USGov-HHS-CDC}} – for public domain images from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Department of Homeland Security
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DHS}} – for public domain images from the Department of Homeland Security.
- {{PD-USCG}} – for public domain images from the US Coast Guard.
- {{PD-USGov-FEMA}} – for public domain images from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-HUD}} – for public domain images from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Department of the Interior
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-Interior}} – for public domain images from the Department of the Interior.
- {{PD-USGov-BLM}} – for public domain images from the Bureau of Land Management.
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-BOEMRE}} – for public domain images from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
- {{PD-USGov-FWS}} – for public domain images from the Fish and Wildlife Service.
- {{PD-USGov-USGS}} – for public domain images from the United States Geological Survey.
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-USGS-Minerals}} – for public domain images from the USGS Minerals in Your World project.
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-USGS-NBII}} – for public domain images from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Digital Image Library.
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}} – for public domain images from the Historic American Buildings Survey.
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-MMS}} – for public domain images from the Minerals Management Service.
- {{PD-USGov-NPS}} - for public domain images from the National Park Service.
- {{PD-USGov-NPS-HAER}} - National Park Service - Historic American Engineering Record.
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-USBR}} – for public domain images from the Bureau of Reclamation.
- {{PD-USGov-Atlas}} – for public domain images from the National Atlas of the United States.
- {{PD-USGov-AVO}} – for images from web cameras operated by the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Department of Justice
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DOJ}} – for public domain images from the Department of Justice.
- {{PD-USGov-DEA}} – for public domain images from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
- {{PD-USGov-FBI}} – for public domain images from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Department of Labor
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DOL}} – for public domain images from the Department of Labor.
Department of State
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DOS}} – for public domain images from the Department of State.
- {{PD-USGov-USIA}} – for public domain images from the now-defunct United States Information Agency.
Department of Transportation
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DOT}} – for public domain images from the Department of Transportation.
- {{PD-USGov-MUTCD}} – for images taken from the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
- {{PD-USGov-FAA}} – for public domain images from Federal Aviation Administration.
- {{PD-USGov-NTSB}} – for public domain images from the National Transportation Safety Board.
Department of the Treasury
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-Treasury}} – for public domain images from the Department of the Treasury.
- {{PD-USGov-money}} – for images of the official currency of the United States that are ineligible for copyright.
Department of Veterans Affairs
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-DVA}} – for public domain images from the Department of Veteran Affairs.
Independent agencies
[edit]- {{PD-USGov-BBG}} – for public domain images created by Broadcasting Board of Governors.
- {{PD-USGov-VOA}} – for public domain images from the Voice of America [7].
- {{PD-USGov-CIA}} – for public domain media from the Central Intelligence Agency.
- {{PD-USGov-CIA-WF}} – for public domain images from the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.
- {{PD-USGov-EPA}} – for public domain images from the Environmental Protection Agency.
- {{PD-USGov-Federal Reserve}} – for public domain images from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
- {{PD-USGov-NASA}} – for public domain images from NASA.
- {{PD-WorldWind}} – for public domain images taken with NASA's World Wind
- {{PD-USGov-NASA-SRTM}} – data from http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/. Note, this is not a copyright tag, but simply a source information tag
- {{PD-USGov-NASA-AP|mission=mission|roll=roll|frame=frame}} – data from http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/. Parameters are photography code. Note: unlike the following tag, this is not a copyright tag, but simply a source information tag.
- {{PD-USGov-NASA-AP}} – for US Astronauts' Photographs.
- {{PD-USGov-NSF}} – for public domain images from the National Science Foundation.
- {{PD-USGov-ODNI}} - for public domain images from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
- {{PD-USGov-PC}} – for public domain images from the Peace Corps.
- {{PD-USGov-POTUS}} – for public domain images from the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
- {{PD-USGov-SI}} – for public domain images from the Smithsonian Institution
- {{PD-USGov-USAID}} – for public domain images from USAID.
- {{PD-USGov-USTR}} – for public domain images from the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
- {{PD-USGov-WPA}} – for public domain images from the defunct Works Progress Administration.
- {{PD-USGov-TVA}} – for public domain images from the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- {{PD-USGov-Award}} – for an image of an award or decoration of an agency of the federal government of the United States.
US Library of Congress public domain collections
[edit]See also: Commons:Library of Congress
- {{PD-LOC-911}} – for the 250 images from the Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City.
- {{PD-Abdul Hamid}} – for images from the Abdul-Hamid II Collection.
- {{PD-Bain}} – for images from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
- {{PD-Brady-Handy}} – for images from the Brady-Handy Collection.
- {{PD-Carpenter}} – for images from the Carpenter Collection.
- {{PD-CQ Roll Call}} – for public domain photos from the CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection.
- {{PD-Curtis}} – for images from the Edward S. Curtis Collection.
- {{PD-Detroit}} – for images from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection.
- {{PD-Frissell}} – for images from the Toni Frissell Collection.
- {{PD-Gotfryd}} – for images from the Bernard Gotfryd Collection.
- {{PD-Gottlieb}} – for images from the William P. Gottlieb Collection.
- {{PD-Gottscho}} – for images from the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection.
- {{PD-Harris-Ewing}} – for images from the Harris & Ewing Collection.
- {{PD-Highsmith}} – for images from the Carol Highsmith Collection.
- {{PD-Johnston}} – for images from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
- {{PD-Korab}} – for images from the Balthazar Korab Collection.
- {{PD-Look}} for images from the LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection
- {{PD-Matson}} – for images from the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.
- {{PD-National Photo Company}} – for public domain images from the National Photo Company Collection.
- {{PD-NCLC}} for works from the National Child Labor Committee collection
- {{PD-NYWT&S}} – for public domain images from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
- {{PD-USNWR}} – for public domain images from the US News & World Report Collection.
- {{PD-Underwood}} – for public domain images by Underwood & Underwood in the general Library of Congress catalog
- {{PD-Van Vechten}} – for images from the Carl Van Vechten Collection.
- {{PD-VAR}} – for images from the Theatrical Poster Collection
US States
[edit]
- See also public domain status of official US government works and Copyright status of works by US subnational governments
- {{PD-CAGov}} – for images created by the State of California.
- {{PD-FLGov}} – for images created by the Government of the US State of Florida that are ineligible for copyright.
- {{PD-MAGov}} – for works created by the State of Massachusetts.
- {{PD-MGS}} – for maps and reports created by the Minnesota Geological Survey and released to the public domain; attribution is requested.
- {{Iowa General Assembly official portrait permission}} – for official portraits of Iowa state legislators.
- {{PD-WSRC}} – for images created by the Washington State Redistricting Commission and released to the public domain; attribution is requested.
- {{PD-OK-LSBPD}} – for images created by the State of Oklahoma’s Legislative Service Bureau, Photo Division
- {{PD-MEGov}} - for information developed by the network manager for InforME and public information made available through InforME
US Territories
[edit]- {{PD-PRGov}} – for images created by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- {{PD-USGov-Unincorporated}} – used for work created by governments of "W:Unorganized territories" (excluding American Samoa), because they are considered part of the US Federal Government) and hence their works are ineligible for copyright.[10][11]
Work of Organized Territories has less clear status; the first link in this section shows strong evidence that Puerto Rico's works are in the public domain, while the second link prevaricates. Flags and coats of arms seem to follow the same laws as the US[12]
American Samoa
[edit]- {{PD-American Samoa}} — used for works made in American Samoa so long as the work has not been copyrighted elsewhere in the United States. Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/American Samoa
COM:TAG Uruguay
Uruguay
- {{PD-Uruguay}} – for works in the public domain because their copyright has expired (70 years after the author's death).
- {{PD-Uruguay-anon}} – for anonymous works published more than 70 years ago.
COM:TAG Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
- {{PD-UZ-exempt}} – for official documents (law, resolutions, decisions, etc.) as well as their official translations; official symbols and signs (flags, arms, orders, banknotes, etc.); national creative works; reports about the news of the day or current events having the nature of usual press conference; results received with help of equipment designed for some kind of production without the person's implementation of creative activity directly associated with the creation of individual work.[LRU-476/2018 Article 8]
- {{PD-Uzbekistan}} – for works in the public domain according to Uzbekistanian law (70 years after the author's death).[LRU-476/2021 Article 35]
COM:TAG Venezuela
Venezuela
- {{PD-Venezuela}} – generally 60 years after the author's death with the exception of audiovisual works, broadcast works and computer programs, in which case the protection lasts for 60 years after publication.
- {{PD-VenezuelaGov}} – for the "texts of laws, decrees, official regulations, public treaties, judicial decisions and other official acts", and the "intellectual products generated under an employment relationship in the public sector — or financed through public funds".
COM:TAG Vietnam
Vietnam
- {{PD-Vietnam}} – all photographs enter the public domain fifty years after they were first published, and all non-photographic works enter the public domain fifty years after the death of the creator.
- {{PD-VietnamGov}} – for legal text documents, administrative text documents by the government and official translations, as well as other documents mentioned in the Not protected section. Do not use this for images and logos.
- {{PD-South VietnamGov}} — The government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam maintains that between 2 September 1945 and 2 July 1976 only the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of South Vietnam were legitimate governments and sees works issued by rival governments as illegal.
COM:TAG Yemen
Yemen
- {{PD-Yemen}} – details are provided by the template. This also applies to old works published in the former states of Aden Settlement, Aden Province, Aden Colony, Aden Protectorate, the Federation of South Arabia and the People's Republic of Yemen, as Yemen is the successor state of these states.
COM:TAG Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
- {{PD-Yugoslavia}} – Generally 50 years after the author's death, with the exception of photographs or a works of applied art, respectively 25 years since published. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, there are different regulations for the successor states:
- {{PD-YugoslaviaGov}} – The copyright was owned by the federal authorities of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, whose assets are now held jointly by its successor states:
For more information about Yugoslav copyright laws, see sh:Wikipedia:Autorska prava na području bivše Jugoslavije on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.
COM:TAG Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
- {{PD-Zimbabwe}} – photographs 50 years starting from the end of publication year, other works 50 years starting from the end of the year, in which the author died.
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