Template talk:PD-USGov-NSA

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NSA information should be assumed to be classified unless it has been specifically released into the public domain.

Why? — Matt 23:37, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Because who knows where it came from if it was not explicitly released? It's like info from any government intel agency. We're not talking about NOAA here. -Joseph (Talk) 05:51, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)
You ask, "who knows where it came from if it was not explicitly released?"; well the assumption is, if we apply this template, that it is authored by the NSA. If we don't know this with a reasonable degree of confidence, then we shouldn't use the template. So we know where it comes from, and hence its copyright status. But I don't see why we must assume all NSA information is still classified unless we can find some explicit assertion to the contrary? For example, I've used images from a scanned NSA brochure in Wikipedia articles, and there was no statement that it was either declassified or released into the public domain. Do we actually need this sentence? What is its purpose? — Matt 09:00, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
OK, I've altered it to "It is believed that this information is not classified", which is more in the form of telling the user information about his or her ability to reuse the image. I do think this template is a nice idea, by the way; you can find a whole bunch of NSA photos listed on User:Matt Crypto/Scratch. — Matt 09:21, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Looking for the right copyright tag?

See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for a full list of tags available. The following are applicable within the United States.

  • {{money-US}}—for images of the official currency of the United States. These are in the public domain. (See also {{money}}.)
  • {{PD-art-US}}—for images of works of art published in the United States prior to 1923.
  • {{PD-US-flag}}—for images of U.S. state, federal district, or insular area flags
  • {{PD-US}}—for copyright-expired images in the US (mainly those published pre-1923). Also for works not eligible for copyright under US law. (May be preferable in some cases vs. {{PD-old}} for US-originating images.)
  • {{PD-Pre1978}} — for images published in the United States prior to 1978 without explicit notice of "copyright, year, owner" or "©" attached.
  • {{PD-US-patent}}—for images from descriptions of US patents. These are in the public domain, though the actual inventions depicted might be encumbered by patents. [1] This does not prevent us from describing them, since we are not trying to construct or sell the inventions.

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Note. There is an upload form for items "from a U.S. federal government source." It is linked from Wikipedia:Upload. If you use one of these tags there don't forget the {{double curly brackets}} on each end of the tag!

[edit] USA military public domain images