Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Displayed and ranked 

Image copyright tags are required for all uploaded images in Wikipedia. In order to more easily locate the best copyright tag for any given image, currently available copyright tags are displayed below first sorted by popularity, then alphabetically.

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Ranked by popularity, copyright tags

The following is a list of available image copyright tags sorted by popularity of use on Wikipedia:
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{{GFDL}}

A GNU license. Stub recommendation.
GFDL Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
{{non-free fair use in|article name}}

A fair use license. Reasonably well researched facts all indicate that use in Wiki will not result in any monetary loss to copyright holder.
Copyrighted This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "article name" :
  • To illustrate the subject in question
  • Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
  • On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.
{{PD-USGov}}

A public domain notice.
Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.
Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See 206.02(b) of Compendium II: Copyright Office Practices).
{{cc-by-sa}}

A Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
BYSA		 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{Non-free logo}}

A fair use license.
Copyrighted This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos.

To the uploader: This tag is not a sufficient on its own. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa.
{{PD-US}}

A public domain notice.
This image is in the public domain in the United States. In most cases, this means that it was first published prior to January 1, 1923 (see the template documentation for more cases). Other jurisdictions may have other rules, and this image might not be in the public domain outside the United States. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.
{{PD-art}}

A public domain notice.
This image is in the public domain because under United States copyright law, originality of expression is necessary for copyright protection, and a mere photograph of an out-of-copyright work may not be protected under American copyright law. The official position by the Wikimedia Foundation is that all reproductions of public domain works should be considered to be in the public domain regardless of their country of origin (even in countries where mere labor is enough to make a reproduction eligible for protection).
This image is in the public domain in the United States. In most cases, this means that it was first published prior to January 1, 1923 (see the template documentation for more cases). Other jurisdictions may have other rules, and this image might not be in the public domain outside the United States. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.
{{CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}}

A external copyright license.
Copyrighted This image is copyrighted. The copyright holder allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the original image author and image description are credited
NOTE: The following conditions must not include terms which restrict usage to only educational or not-for-profit purposes or prohibit derivatives.
{{PD-release}}

An external copyright license.
Public domain This work has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible:

The copyright holder grants any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}

A Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
BYSA		 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{cc-sa}}

A Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
SA		 This file is licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike 1.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{cc-by-2.0}}

A Creative Commons license.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{GPL}}

A Gnu license.
GPL This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See version 2 and version 3 of the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
{{cc-by}}

A Creative Commons image.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{Non-free Crown copyright}}

An external copyright license.
Copyrighted This work is protected by British Crown copyright. Limitations on its distribution are defined at the original site of publication, and are not altered by its reproduction here. Those terms may include, but may not be limited to, its reproduction being accurate, free of charge in any format or medium, and not used in a misleading context. The source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged. HMSO has explicitly stated in official correspondence that material under Crown Copyright may not be relicensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Thus, this is a non-free license for the purpose of Wikipedia, as modification is not permitted. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

  • To illustrate the object in question
  • Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
  • On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: Please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
{{LGPL}}

A Gnu license.
LGPL This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
{{polishpd}}

A public domain notice.
This image is in the public domain because according to the Art.3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed public domain.
This image was uploaded in good faith using the above tag: however, it may be reassessed under the United States copyright guidelines if it was first published on or after January 1, 1923 (see United States Code: 17 U.S.C. §104A).

Ranked/ sorted alphabetically, copyright tags

The following is a list of available image copyright tags sorted alphabetically:
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{{cc-by}}

A Creative Commons license.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{cc-by-2.0}}

A Creative Commons license.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{cc-by-sa}}

A Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
BYSA		 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}

A Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
BYSA		 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{cc-sa}}

A Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
SA		 This file is licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike 1.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/
This template should only be used on image pages.
{{CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}}

An external copyright license.
Copyrighted This image is copyrighted. The copyright holder allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the original image author and image description are credited
NOTE: The following conditions must not include terms which restrict usage to only educational or not-for-profit purposes or prohibit derivatives.
{{GFDL}}

A Gnu license.
GFDL Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
{{GPL}}

A Gnu license.
GPL This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See version 2 and version 3 of the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
{{iraqcopyright}} Template:Iraqcopyright
{{LGPL}}

A Gnu license.
LGPL This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
{{Non-free Crown copyright}}

An external copyright license.
Copyrighted This work is protected by British Crown copyright. Limitations on its distribution are defined at the original site of publication, and are not altered by its reproduction here. Those terms may include, but may not be limited to, its reproduction being accurate, free of charge in any format or medium, and not used in a misleading context. The source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged. HMSO has explicitly stated in official correspondence that material under Crown Copyright may not be relicensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Thus, this is a non-free license for the purpose of Wikipedia, as modification is not permitted. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

  • To illustrate the object in question
  • Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
  • On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([3]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: Please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
{{Non-free fair use in|article name}}

A fair use license.
Copyrighted This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "article name" :
  • To illustrate the subject in question
  • Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
  • On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([4]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.
{{Non-free logo}}

A fair use license.
Copyrighted This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos.

To the uploader: This tag is not a sufficient on its own. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa.
{{PD-art}}

A public domain notice.
This image is in the public domain because under United States copyright law, originality of expression is necessary for copyright protection, and a mere photograph of an out-of-copyright work may not be protected under American copyright law. The official position by the Wikimedia Foundation is that all reproductions of public domain works should be considered to be in the public domain regardless of their country of origin (even in countries where mere labor is enough to make a reproduction eligible for protection).
This image is in the public domain in the United States. In most cases, this means that it was first published prior to January 1, 1923 (see the template documentation for more cases). Other jurisdictions may have other rules, and this image might not be in the public domain outside the United States. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.
{{PD-Poland}}

A public domain notice.
This image is in the public domain because according to the Art.3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed public domain.
This image was uploaded in good faith using the above tag: however, it may be reassessed under the United States copyright guidelines if it was first published on or after January 1, 1923 (see United States Code: 17 U.S.C. §104A).
{{PD-release}}

An external copyright license.
Public domain This work has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible:

The copyright holder grants any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
{{PD-US}}

A public domain notice.
This image is in the public domain in the United States. In most cases, this means that it was first published prior to January 1, 1923 (see the template documentation for more cases). Other jurisdictions may have other rules, and this image might not be in the public domain outside the United States. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.
{{PD-USGov}}

A public domain notice.
Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.
Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See 206.02(b) of Compendium II: Copyright Office Practices).

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