Template:PD-ineligible

This work 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.

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This documentation is transcluded from Template:PD-ineligible/doc.

Use this template to mark a file which you have identified as being ineligible for copyright protection by virtue of it:

1. consisting only of information that is itself in the public domain; and
2. lacking evidence of original authorship/ creative input of any kind.

This template should not be used if a more-specific suitable public domain copyright tag is available (e.g., the tag PD-chem for images of chemical compounds or PD-textlogo for ineligible logos). However, the sweat-of-the-brow doctrine means that even complicated images/ files may be ineligible for copyright protection so long as they consist solely of information and are utterly lacking in originality and creativity— in that case, this tag may be appropriate.

Usage

The template takes no parameters.

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Placement: In the "Permission" parameter of the {{Information}} template (or the respective parameter of similar templates) or in the "Licensing" section

See also

• For chemistry structures, use {{PD-chem}}.
• For simple charts and graphs, use {{PD-chart}}.
• For simple maps, use {{PD-map}}.
• For logos that only consist of simple geometric shapes and/or text, use {{PD-textlogo}}.
• For simple text, (non-logo) use {{PD-text}}.
• For simple traffic signs, use {{PD-sign}}.
• For simple geometry shapes, use {{PD-shape}}.
• For simple Parliament Diagrams, use {{PD-wpdc}}.
• For raster renderings of a font (or typeface), use {{PD-font}}.
• For simple (non-creative) reproduction of two-dimensional subject, use {{PD-scan}} or {{PD-scan-two}}.
  If the depicted subject is a creative work, it should have also its own permission (license tag)!
• For SVG representations of an ancient script where the vectorization has been released into the public domain, use {{PD-ancient-script}}.
• For technical images created as part of standard medical diagnostic procedures, use {{PD-medical}}.
• For photographs of old works taken by yourself, use the appropriate one of the following …
  • {{PD-old-100}} for works by authors who died more than 100 years ago.
  • {{PD-old-80}} for works by authors who died more than 80 years ago.
  • {{PD-old-75}} for works by authors who died more than 75 years ago.
  • {{PD-old-70}} for works by authors who died more than 70 years ago.
  • {{PD-US}} for U.S. works published before 1 January 1929.
  • {{PD-US-expired}} for non-U.S. works published before 1 January 1929.
  • {{PD-1996}} for works that are in the public domain in their source countries on 1 January 1996.
• For photographs of old works (as above) taken by someone else, use {{PD-Art}}

Localization

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PD-ineligible/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PD-ineligible/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.