Template:PD-Art
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain". For details, see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag. {{PD-Art}} template without parameter: please specify why the underlying work is public domain in both the source country and the United States
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Documentation
This template is for use by the uploader of a photograph taken by somebody else to assert that the photograph can have no independent copyright as it is simply a faithful reproduction of an old, public domain, two-dimensional work of art. For this purpose, 'faithful reproduction' includes even a photograph taken perhaps from several meters away from the work of art, with carefully-arranged and professional lighting, filters and so on. Use of this template means that according to the position of the WMF Board such 'faithful reproduction' photographs are considered to be in the public domain, regardless of how much skill and effort went into taking the picture.
A 'faithful reproduction' in this sense may differ from a purely mechanical copy such as a photocopy or a scan taken directly from the original. Images that are no more than mere photocopies or scans directly taken from an old original artwork can be labeled {{PD-old}}. This template is only for use when the initial reproduction was by means of a photograph, rather than a scan or a photocopy.
The template takes one parameter to indicate why the original work of art is in the public domain (if no parameter is given, {{PD-old}} is assumed). If you use a parameter, it must correspond to a public domain tag. Do not use as a parameter a copyright license tag such as such as GFDL. See Category:PD Art for existing categories.
For examples of the tag in use, see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag#Usage examples.
The template automatically sets the following categories: Cat:PD-Art (PD-old default) if no parameter specified and default {{PD-old}} is supplied by the PD-Art template.
Usage
{{PD-Art|1=|deathyear=|country=|date=}}
Parameters
| Parameter name | Description | Default value | required or optional?
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| parameter #1 (1) | License to use, like: PD-old-auto, PD-old-auto-1923, PD-old-100, PD-USGov or similar | PD-old | required |
| deathyear | if license was {{PD-old-auto}} or similar then deathyear can be used to pass the year of the author's death to that template | empty | optional |
| country | if license was {{PD-old-auto-1996}} then country is needed to pass the country of publication to that template | empty | optional |
| date | if license was {{PD-old-auto-1996}} then date is needed to pass the relevant URAA date to that template | empty | optional |
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 "Licence" section
See also
PD-Art license tags:
- {{PD-Art}}
- {{PD-art-auto}}
- {{PD-art-auto-1923}}
- {{PD-art-auto-1996}}
- {{PD-art-3d}}
- {{PD-art-70}}
- {{PD-art-70-3d}}
- {{PD-Art-100}}
- {{PD-Art-two}}
- {{Licensed-PD-Art}}
- {{Licensed-PD-Art-two}}
- {{PD-Art-YorckProject}}
Localization
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This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PD-Art/layout.
To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PD-Art/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.
Example
{{PD-Art|PD-old-auto|deathyear=1920}} gives:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain". For details, see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag. Please be aware that depending on local laws, re-use of this content may be prohibited or restricted in your jurisdiction. See Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs.</center> | ||||
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