Editing Help:Image copyright tags

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:''This page is based on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Image copyright tags|Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]]. Please see that page for additional image copyright tags should you believe them necessary for SmashWiki.''

All images on SmashWiki must be free to use under an appropriate license or used under Fair Use. This page will help you figure out which tag to use, and how to tag your images. Most images you find on the web or in a Google image search are '''not''' free to use, even if you don't see any copyright information with them! If you do not know who created an image and what license it is under, you cannot use it. 

Please tag images on their image description page (for example [[:File:Example.jpg|this]] is the description page for Example.jpg) with one of the tags below so we can keep track of its status.

Try to provide as much detail as possible:

* When marking an image as one of the less specific categories (such as CopyrightedFreeUse), try to specify somewhere what the actual license or other permission states.
* If you tag an image as requiring attribution, please specify who needs to be attributed! Note that the GFDL requires attribution. 
* If multiple categories apply to an image, add all that apply.

Each tag should be put on a line of its own.

== Tagging options ==

=== Public domain ===

When adding a PD tag, also specify ''why'' the image is PD. Has the author released it into the PD? Is the image old enough to be PD? Is it PD because it was created by a particular government? Is it PD because a user of SmashWiki created it and has uploaded it as PD? If you will be using a lot of PD images on your wiki, you may want to expand these tags and have more specific information included within them.

* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:PD|PD]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>. Public domain. For example, when the author has put the work into the public domain or the author died over 70 years ago (pre-1935).

===Free licenses===
Be specific about which version of the license the image is used under.

* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Attribution|Attribution]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - For images that require attribution.
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:CopyrightedFreeUse|CopyrightedFreeUse]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - The image is copyrighted, but is free to use for any purpose. (This includes commercial use and derivative works: please be careful that the copyright holder didn't mean "personal use" only!)
*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat|CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat]]<nowiki>|...}}</nowiki> - Eg. provided that credit is given and copyright is attributed.  Note that non-commercial or educational use restrictions are not allowed as provisions in this tag.
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:GFDL|GFDL]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License]
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:GPL|GPL]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - GNU General Public License
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:cc-by|cc-by]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - Creative Commons Attribution
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:cc-sa|cc-sa]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - Creative Commons ShareAlike
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:cc-by-sa|cc-by-sa]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike

===Fair use===
See [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Image copyright tags|Wikipedia]] for a wider selection of fair use tags, especially if you will be uploading many logos or album covers. Review [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Image description page#Fair use rationale]].

* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Fairuse|Fairuse]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - for a copyrighted image which is contended to be [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]].

===Unsuitable===
If you do not know the copyright status, do not upload the image! Non-free Creative Commons licenses are also not permitted. This includes images which do not allow non-commercial use or derivative works (NC and ND licenses), since these are non-[[wikipedia:free content|free]]. The Sampling+ license is also not free.

Wikipedia has a range of tags explaining why an image is unsuitable. If an image is unsuitable for SmashWiki, tag it with the <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> template.

== Rationale ==

# What's "fair use" in one country may not be "fair use" in another country; this allows people creating derivative works in other countries to extract images which aren't legal in their country.
# It is harder to create decent images than decent text, so the temptation to break copyright is bigger, so we like to be a bit more vigilant.
# Secondly, it's easy to rewrite text that turns out to be copyrighted, but harder (though possible) to do the same for images.
# It is good practice to cite our sources, where we've (legally) copied images from elsewhere. If we give due credit, we're more likely to get permission (and some licenses require due credit anyway).
# Where artists have created the images, they should have a bit of fame! Putting some text on the image description page that they created it themselves gives appropriate recognition.

==Creating new tags or sub-categories==

Try to use the tags already available at Wikipedia. This makes it easier for people who want to re-use content from both sites.

# First create the template, for example, '''Template:Asdf'''. This can be a quick draft version of a public domain notice, for example.
# Categorize that template to '''Category:Asdf images'''.
# Edit this category to put a description.
# Add the template tag '''<nowiki>{{Image template notice|Asdf}}</nowiki>''' in this category edit.
# Categorize this category to, for example, '''Category:Public domain images'''.
Done.
All you need to do is just tag your uploaded images with '''<nowiki>{{Asdf}}</nowiki>'''.
All those images will be in the '''Category:Asdf images''' which in turn would be a sub-category of '''Category:Public domain images'''.

== Categories ==

Each copyright tag such as '''<nowiki>{{Fairuse}}</nowiki>''' should correspond to a category. Placing such a tag on an image will automatically put it into that category, because that template should already belong to that category.

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