Wikipedia:File copyright tags/Non-free

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Copyrighted media files may be used in Wikipedia articles on a limited basis, provided they satisfy both the legal test for fair use and Wikipedia's own guidelines for non-free content, found at Wikipedia:Non-free content. Each image or audio file has a file page where any fair-use concerns must be addressed.

Please note: Copyrighted images that can reasonably be replaced by free images may not be used on Wikipedia.

For non-free content, each image page must include:

  • A copyright tag to claim fair use. Wikipedia's file upload function and wizard each help editors choose an appropriate tag. A list is below. Non-free images that meet Wikipedia's policy but do not fit into any of the categories below should use the tag {{Non-free fair use in|Article}}.
  • A statement describing the source of the media.
  • A separate "non-free use rationale" for each use in a Wikipedia article. Instructions, guidelines, samples, and templates are available at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline.

List[edit]

Art[edit]

Audio and music[edit]

Cover art[edit]

Logos[edit]

Promotional material[edit]

Fair use on Wikipedia only applies if it is not possible to replace such promotional image with a free image.

  • {{Non-free promotional}}—for an image freely provided to promote an item, as in a promotional photo in a press packet

Publicity photos[edit]

Fair use on Wikipedia only applies if it is not possible to replace such publicity image with a free image.

  • {{Non-free AUSPIC}}—for official photographs of Australian federal politicians from AUSPIC
  • {{Non-free promotional}}—for publicity photographs of people or events, such as headshots or posed shots, from a press kit.

Screenshots[edit]

Stamps and currency[edit]

UK government[edit]

  • {{Non-free Parliamentary copyright}} - for material under UK Parliamentary copyright. Please note that as commercial distribution is not permitted this license is non-free for the purposes of Wikipedia, hence images uploaded under this template must still specify a rationale.

Other[edit]

Supplemental[edit]

These tags cannot be used on their own. Any files using these tags must have one of the previously mentioned tags.

  • {{Non-free Old-25}}—for media copyrighted in the United States whose author died more than 25 years ago and is in the public domain in a few other countries
  • {{Non-free Old-30}}—for media copyrighted in the United States whose author died more than 30 years ago and is in the public domain in a few other countries
  • {{Non-free Old-50}}—for media copyrighted in the United States whose author died more than 50 years ago and is in the public domain in many other countries
  • {{Non-free Old-60}}—for media copyrighted in the United States whose author died more than 60 years ago and is in the public domain in many other countries
  • {{Non-free Old-70}}—for media copyrighted in the United States whose author died more than 70 years ago and is in the public domain in most other countries
  • {{Non-free Old-75}}—for media copyrighted in the United States whose author died more than 75 years ago and is in the public domain in most other countries
  • {{Non-free Old-80}}—for media copyrighted in the United States whose author died more than 80 years ago and is in the public domain in all other countries except for Mexico and Jamaica
  • {{Non-free with NC}}—for media with a noncommercial reuse license
  • {{Non-free with NC and ND}}—for media with a combined noncommercial reuse and no derivative works license
  • {{Non-free with ND}}—for media with a no derivative works license
  • {{Non-free with permission}}—for fair use media for which we also have permission to use on Wikipedia
  • {{Not-PD-US-URAA}}—for media whose copyright was restored in the United States by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA)
  • {{Non-free no treaty}}—for media from a country without a copyright treaty with the United States, and copyrighted in its home country