Help:Image licenses

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All images should be tagged with information concerning their copyright and licensing status. It is illegal for us to use images on OrthodoxWiki for which we do not have permission or which are not usable under the fair use provisions of United States copyright law. Here are some tags that can be included for images, followed by the notice that will be included:

Tags

OCA.org

{{oca}} for images from the OCA website:
Courtesy of the Orthodox Church in America www.oca.org. Copyright © by the Orthodox Church in America. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission on OrthodoxWiki, but not to be copied outside the website or distributed in any other way.

If you placed this tag on an image, be sure that you have received explicit permission for each image from the appropriate OCA authorities.


Holy Land Photos

{{hlp}} for images from Holy Land Photos:
Copyright © by Dr. Carl Rasmussen of Holy Land Photos. All Rights Reserved.
Holy Land Photos has granted a limited license for this image to be used in its unaltered form by OrthodoxWiki's administration and users for inclusion in non-commercial articles on the website, but not to be copied outside the website or distributed in any other way.


Holy Transfiguration Monastery

{{htm}} for images from Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts):
Copyright © by Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts). All Rights Reserved.
Holy Transfiguration Monastery has granted a limited license for this image to be used in its unaltered form by OrthodoxWiki's administration and users for inclusion in non-commercial articles on the website, but not to be copied outside the website or distributed in any other way.


Skete.com

{{skete.com}} for images from Skete.com:
Copyright © by St. Isaac of Syria Skete (Boscobel, Wisconsin). All Rights Reserved.
St. Isaac of Syria Skete has granted a limited license for this image to be used in its unaltered form by OrthodoxWiki's administration and users for inclusion in non-commercial articles on the website, but not to be copied outside the website or distributed in any other way.


Public Domain

{{pd}} for images in the public doman:

This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. This applies worldwide.


GNU FDL

{{gfdl}} for images released under the GNU Free Documentation License:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers.


Creative Commons

{{cc}} for images released under the Creative Commons License:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image or document under the terms of the Attribution/Share-alike Creative Commons License, Version 2.5 or any later version published; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers.


Unverified

{{unverified}} for images of unknown source (this should ideally only be used temporarily!):
This image may not have information on its source. It may be usable under fair use but this has yet to be verified. It might be public domain or under a license compatible with the GNU FDL. To the uploader: Please provide licensing information as soon as possible. Images without this information may be deleted in the future. If you are the copyright holder and this image has been used without your permission, please contact the site administrators immediately.


Limited License

{{limited}} for images with a copyright and limited license (you'll also need to include a copyright notice along with that tag):
All Rights Reserved.
The copyright holder listed above hereby grants a limited license for this image to be used in its unaltered form by OrthodoxWiki's administration and users for inclusion in articles on the website, but not to be copied outside the website or distributed in any other way.


Fair Use

{{fairuse}} for images with a copyright whose usage is believed to constitute fair use under United States copyright law:


This work is copyrighted. The individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, and subsequent persons who place it into articles assert that this qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.


How to include the tag

When you upload the image, there is a "Summary" box in which you can put the tags. Additionally, you can go to the image's description page—either by clicking on an image in an entry or by going to the description link included after you upload the image—then click the "edit" tab at the top of the page, and add in the appropriate information.

See also