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}}Works should be tagged with a template that identifies their license status according to Wikisource's copyright policy. Select the most appropriate license from these categories. The templates on this page are ordered from top to bottom in the order that they are preferred; the first that applies is often the recommended template. Please note that noncommercial, fair use, and most copyright licenses are not acceptable; see the copyright policy.

Note that in some cases, more than one tag applies.


This page is currently outdated and needs to be updated to reflect the English Wikisource's new copyright policy.


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General licenses (recommended)

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Public domain

Tag code Visible template
{{PD-old}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
{{PD-release}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain worldwide because it has been so released by the copyright holder.
{{PD-old-70}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.
{{PD-1923}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in the U.S. and other countries where copyright has expired on works published before 1923.
{{PD-old-50}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 50 years.
{{PD-manifesto}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is a public manifesto or speech which is not known to be licensed, and is assumed to be in the public domain.
If the work is found to be licensed, the work should be blanked and reported at Possible copyright violations. This template should only be used after a reasonable effort has been made to verify that the work is unlicensed.
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GNU free licenses

Tag code Visible template
{{GFDL}}
Image:Heckert GNU white.svg This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
{{GFDL 1.2}} Template:GFDL 1.2
{{GPL}} Template:GPL
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Creative commons licenses

Tag code Visible template
{{CC-by}} Template:CC-by
{{CC-by-2.0}} Template:CC-by-2.0
{{CC-sa}} Template:CC-sa
{{CC-by-sa}} Template:CC-by-sa
{{CC-by-sa-2.0}} Template:CC-by-sa-2.0
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"Any-purpose" copyright

Tag code Visible template
{{CopyrightedFreeUse}} Template:CopyrightedFreeUse
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Particular cases

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Public Domain

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USA public domain

Tag code Visible template
{{PD-US}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in the United States, but it may not be in other jurisdictions.
{{PD-US-no-notice}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published there before 1978 without copyright notice.
{{PD-US-no-renewal}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published there before 1964, and copyright was not renewed. See also copyright renewal records for further information.
{{PD-USGov}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain because it is a work of the United States Government.
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Other countries public domain

Tag code Visible template
{{PD-CN}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This text is in the public domain worldwide because it is exempted by Article 5 of Chinese copyright law. This exempts all Chinese government and judicial documents, and their official translations, from copyright. It also exempts news on current affairs, and calendars, numerical tables, and other forms of general use and formulas.
{{PD-MO}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain worldwide because it is exempted by Article 6 of Macao copyright law. This exempts official governmental works and their translations from copyright, and explicitly allows copyrighted free use on any protected work therein.
{{PD-TW}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain worldwide because it is exempted by article 9 of the Republic of China's Copyright Act (in effect in non-mainland China). This excludes from copyright all government and official documents and official translations, including news releases, speeches, laws, and documents. It also excludes from copyright oral and literary news reports strictly intended to communicate facts, test questions from all kinds examinations held pursuant to laws or regulations, slogans and common symbols, terms, formulas, numerical charts, forms, notebooks, or almanacs.
{{PD-UKGov}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain worldwide because:
  1. It is a photograph created by the United Kingdom Government prior to {{ #expr: 2008 - 50 }}; or
  2. It is an engraving created by the United Kingdom Government and commercially published prior to {{ #expr: 2008 - 50 }}; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving which was created by the United Kingdom Government prior to {{ #expr: 2008 - 50 }}; or
  4. It is a non-artistic work that was commercially published prior to {{ #expr: 2008 - 50 }}.

See Crown copyright artistic works and Crown copyright non-artistic works.

{{Sovietpd}} Template:Sovietpd
{{Polishsymbol}} Template:Polishsymbol
{{Iraqcopyright}} Template:Iraqcopyright
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United Nations public domain

Tag code Visible template
{{PD-UN}}
Image:PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain because it is exempted by Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement for the United Nations, Public Law 80-357. It is published by the United Nations Headquarters:
  1. Through 1977 without a copyright notice (see also {{PD-US-no-notice}}), or
  2. Between 1978 and 1 March 1989 without copyright notice, and without subsequent copyright registration, or
  3. Through 1963 with a copyright notice but copyright was not renewed (see also {{PD-US-no-renewal}}), or
  4. At any time and the United States Government prepared the underlying texts (see also {{PD-USGov}}).
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Compatible copyrights

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Bahá'í reference works copyright

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UK government copyrights

  • {{CrownCopyright}} - This only applies to some content on some web sites. It's not a carte blanche to use anything. See the talk page for a list of web sites that will allow some use - and check the copyright notice first as they are all different.

The options below are all either for Crown copyright or British Government bodies that claim copyrights in their own right with terms sufficiently different from the norm that they need their own message.

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United Nations copyrights

The follwing tags are incompatible with the Copyright policy here, so they are to be discontinued. See also #United Nations public domain.

* {{UNCopyright}} - This is for works from the United Nations subject to its Copyright notice and Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations. The United Nations grants permission to Users to visit the Site and to download and copy the information, documents and materials from the Site for the User’s personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell or redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom.

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Creating new tags or sub-category

If you are uploading a relatively large collection of text, you should consider creating a new tag and sub-category for them.

  1. First create the template, for example, Template:Asdf. This can be a quick draft version of a public domain notice, for example.
  2. Categorize that template to Category:Asdf.
  3. Edit this category to put a description.
  4. Add the template tag {{Template notice|Asdf}} in this category edit.
  5. Categorize this category to, for example, Category:Public domain images.

Done. All you need to do is just tag your copyedited text with {{Asdf}}. All those texts will be in the Category:Asdf images which in turn would be in a sub-category of Category:Public domain.

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Text template notice

Each copyright tag such as {{Fairuse}} should correspond to a Category. Placing such a tag on an text will automatically put it into that category, because that template should already belong to that category. Using {{Fairuse}} as an example, each of such category should have a notice by using the tag {{Template notice|Fairuse}} of the template Template:Template notice that renders as:

Template:Template noticept:Wikisource:Marcações de Copyright zh:Wikisource:版权标记

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