MediaWiki:Registered licensing exceptions
From OpenMedia
In general, all media uploaded to this site are under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license (cc-by-sa).
Exceptions can only be created by project administrators. They should normally be discussed in advance. Valid exceptions are various public domain media and large collections of images that can only be used under a non-commercial license.
There should be no Creative-Commons-Non-commercial template that can then be added to any page!
Public Domain
The first general exception is that some material may be in the Public domain. To mark a media file as being in the public domain, add one of the following templates to the media description page by pasting text like
{{PD-self}}
into the edit window (click on "edit" when viewing the media file in the wiki).
- {{PD-self}} creates:
| I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: |
- {{PD-old}} creates:
|
| This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. |
- {{PD-ineligible}} creates:
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| This file is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship. |
More such templates may be required over time.
In certain situations, large media collections may be uploaded under a cc-by-sa-nc non-commercial license.
We welcome if you want to contribute a large collection of media under a non-commercial license, but for management reasons do not offer it for single uploads. Therefore there is no general cc-by-sa-nc template for individually uploaded files.
- {{Jens Schou cc-by-nc-sa}}, see Template:Jens Schou cc-by-nc-sa
