Template talk:PD-USGov

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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.

[edit] USA federal government images

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

[edit] Worldwide?

I was told in the German Wikipedia and its mailing list that the follwing statement is not true:

in the public domain worldwide

According to

http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2004/09/copyright_in_go.html

which cites

http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/publications/04-8copyright.html#317

US government works are not necessarily in the public domain in other countries.

If you understand German, here is the link to the first mail on the German Wikipedia mailing list and the following debate:

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2004-September/019992.html

Thanks to Klaus Graf (de:Benutzer:Historiograf) for giving this hint.

Best regards, --zeno 19:24, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It appears to be rare but possible. It's not an area I have studied so I can't say much more than that. My impression is that it is safe enough to use them and leave it to the choice of the final user to decide, letting them use the image tagging to remove them if they do not want to use them. Jamesday 00:15, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

thank you for changing the text. --zeno 10:28, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] This is stuffing up.

Here's a good example:

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.
Yes, it's broken for me too; can we fix it, or revert to the previous version for now if we can't? Thanks. — Matt 11:30, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
After a bit of debugging, I think it justs needs a newline at the top of the article. — Matt 12:44, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Template:PD-US

What's the difference between this template and Template:PD-US ? ✏ Sverdrup 21:11, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • The differences are that PD-USGov refers to "work", versus PD-US's "image", and the former stating a worldwide public domain versus the latter saying the possibility of being public domain elsewhere. -- SEWilco 01:13, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • According to the statement at the top of Template talk:PD-US, it seems to be meant for images not produced by the government, but rather things that have expired copyright in the U.S., or were never eligible for copyright under U.S. law in the first place. Therefore, images under PD-USGov could be considered a subset of PD-US. (I suppose it might be good to break it down into PD-US-expired and PD-US-ineligible or something). —Mulad (talk) 15:13, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Seal

Any else get a tickle out of a template for public domain images including a fair use image embedded within it?

While not a "fair use image", it is most likely being used illegally. anthony (see warning) 06:04, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It seems Anthony is correct, see 18 USC 713. --Michael Snow 06:15, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Why not use the US flag as an image then? -Lommer 02:00, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "This applies worldwide."

This may not apply worldwide (see above). Why was this edit made? Guanaco 20:33, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Federal government?

I believe the template message should be changed to

This work is in the public domain because it is a work of the United States federal Government. This applies worldwide. See Copyright.

Or is there any other template for this purpose? --DuKot 01:51, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Government seal instead of the C?

How about using the image to the right [image of the Great Seal of the US, since removed] instead of the C with a cross through it for this template? Seems more appropriate for this template. [unsigned comment by User:Tomf688]

You seem to have missed the reference above, indicating that it may be illegal to use the seal in this manner. --Michael Snow 23:54, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki link to vi:

Please add an interwiki link to the Vietnamese version of this template:

<noinclude>[[vi:Tiêu bản:PD-USGov]]</noinclude>

Thanks.

 – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 00:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki link to he

Why is this template protected for such a prolonged period of time?
Please add [[he:תבנית:זכויות יוצרים-ממשלת ארצות הברית]]. --Asbl 17:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ...excluding such as

The license doesn't cover [2] works by:

  1. U.S. Postal Service
  2. District of Columbia
  3. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
  4. Territorial areas under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Government
  5. State, local, or foreign governments

feydey 21:16, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Are there tags appropriate for state works then? I cannot find any for tagging a map prepared by the Pennsylvania State Government. Skabat169 15:15, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
The works of many (most?) states are copyrighted by the state and are not free content by default. I believe we do have some state templates for the ones that are okay. --Gmaxwell 16:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] protected edit request

Requesting a note be added that this does NOT cover state governments. I made this change on commons (See Commons:Template:PD-USGov) as large numbers of people there were adding state pics as PD-USGov. Thanx. 68.39.174.238 19:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering this myself. I added a notice which I hope is adequate. --tomf688 (talk - email) 02:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. 68.39.174.238 21:30, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki

Please add interwiki link to Serbian Language Wikipedia:

[[sr:Шаблон:ЈВ-САДВлада]]

Thank you. --Branislav Jovanovic 22:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. —freak(talk) 17:14, Aug. 21, 2006 (UTC)

Thank you again. --Branislav Jovanovic 06:50, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Please add ru-wiki

[[sr:Шаблон:PD-USGov]]

--Alex Spade 14:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please replace text with link to {{USC}}

{{Editprotected}}

Please replace

Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code

with

17 U.S.C. § 105

—Markles 13:04, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. Why not just link directly to the specific statute mentioned? --zenohockey 18:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Y Done. Sandstein 19:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wrong interwiki to he

the is a wrong interwiki to he the right one is:

[[he:תבנית:תמונה פדרלית]]

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.138.210.138 (talk) 11:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] SVG Version

What such to substitute the image of the Great Seal of United States for version SVG? (201.27.112.228 16:36, 28 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] mk interwiki

{{editprotected}} Please add mk:Шаблон:Јд-САДВлада interwiki. Thanks. --iNkubusse? 18:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Doc created, interwikis moved there. --CapitalR (talk) 18:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)