PD-US is for photographs that are definitely public domain under US copyright law but may not be under others. Ignoring a few possible (but unproven) legal wrinkles, everything published pre-1923 is public domain in the US. Some of this material may not be public domain elsewhere, because of differing law (70 years from author death, for example, would place some pre-1923 works still in copyright elsewhere).
This also applies to things that are PD in the US because the requirements of former US copyright law were not met; copyright lapsed through lack of renewal, or work published without a copyright notice. These works may still be copyrighted elsewhere.
PD-USGov is for photos that are PD because they are US Government photos.
-Matt
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:13:08 +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
From Wikipedia:Copyrights:
"Government photographs
Works produced by employees of the United States federal government in the scope of their employment are public domain by statute. However, note that, despite popular misconception, the US Federal Government can own copyrights that are assigned to it by others. As a general rule photographs on .mil and .gov sites are public domain. However there are some notable exceptions. Check the privacy and security notice of the website. It should also be noted that governments outside the US often do claim copyright over works produced by their employees (for example, Crown Copyright in the United Kingdom). Also, most state governments in the United States do not place their work into the public domain and do in fact own the copyright to their work. Please be careful to check ownership information before copying."
From Template:PD-US
"This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. See Copyright."
I think it's a bit vague but don't dare "fix" it because i might be "un-fixing" something, what it reads like to me is that things marked as {{PD-US}} are in the public domain in the United States but might not be in the public domain in other countries. Is this the desired message or does it mean to say that things marked as {{PD-US}} are things put into the public domain by the US Government? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l