Ireland Information Guide has an image problem. Probably several thousand of them.

Please tag images on the Ireland Information Guide:image description page with one of the tags below.

When marking an image as one of the vaguer categories (such as CopyrightedFreeUse), try to specify somewhere what the actual license or other permission states. If you think a case can be made for Fair use then add to the list at Ireland Information Guide:Fair use.

It's kind of obvious, but if you tag an image as requiring attribution, please specify who needs to be attributed! Note that the GFDL requires attribution. If multiple categories apply to an image, add all that apply. For example, if it is GFDL'd, but would also be public domain in the USA, mark it with both GFDL and PD-US.

For information on where in the image description page to put the tags, see MediaWiki custom messages. The tags should be put on a line of their own.

Tagging options

• {{unknown}} - for an image with author information but no notice about licensing information (view)
• {{fairuse}} - for a copyrighted image which is contended to be fair use: album covers, etc.; see also Ireland Information Guide:Fair use (view)
• {{PermissionAndFairUse}} - where we have permission, and US fair use also applies (view)
• {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} - where anyone is allowed to use an image, but it is not one of the specific licenses listed below. (view)
• {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}} - where anyone is allowed to use an image, subject to certain specified conditions: provided that... (e.g.) the photographer is credited. (view)
• {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat|reason}} - same as above, with a variable for the reason and unprotected. (view)
• {{fairusein|article}} - (view)
• {{freefairusein}} - (view)
• [[Category:album covers]] - for album covers (view)

UK Govt copyrights

• {{CrownCopyright}} - NOTE: this only applies to some content on some web sites. It's not a carte blanche to use anything. See the talk page for a list of web sites that will allow some use - and check the copyright notice first as they are all different. (view)

The options below are all either for Crown copyright or British Government bodies that claim copyrights in their own right with terms sufficiently different from the norm that they need their own message.

• {{LandRegistryCopyright}} - Land Registry material (view)
• {{LearningandSkillsCouncilCopyright}} - Learning and Skills Council material (view)
• {{NationalAuditOfficeCopyright}} - National Audit Office material (view)
• {{NHSCopyright}} - National Health Service material (view)
• {{TeacherTrainingAuthorityCopyright}} - Teacher Training Agency material (view)
• {{QualificationsandCurriculumAuthorityCopyright}} - Qualifications and Curriculum Authority material (view)

Public domain

• {{PD}} - for when author has put into the public domain or the author died over 70 years ago (pre-1934); also for images ineligible for copyright not created by the US Federal Government. (view)
• {{PD-US}} - for copyright-expired images in the US (mainly those published pre-1923). Also for works not eligible for copyright under US law. (view)
• {{PD-USGov}} - for images created by the US Federal Government that are ineligible for copyright such as NASA photos and Image:George-W-Bush.jpeg. (view)
• {{PD-CAGov}} - for images created by the State of California that are ineligible for copyright such as Image:Pleasant_Valley_State_Prison.jpg (view)
• {{Sovietpd}} - for works published by the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics before 27 May 1973. (view)
• {{PD-art}} - for images of works of art where the artist died more than 70 years ago. But if the person or organization who digitized it has released it under another license, list that other license as well as this one. (view)

GNU Licenses

• GNU Free Documentation License {{GFDL}}
• GNU General Public License {{GPL}}
• GNU Lesser General Public License {{LGPL}}

Creative Commons Licenses

• Attribution {{cc-by}}
• Attribution 2.0 {{cc-by-2.0}}
• ShareAlike {{cc-sa}}
• Attribution-Sharealike {{cc-by-sa}}
• Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 {{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
• NoDerivs {{cc-nd}}
• Attribution-NoDerivs {{cc-by-nd}}
• Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 {{cc-by-nd-2.0}}
• NonCommercial {{cc-nc}}
• Attribution-NonCommercial {{cc-by-nc}}
• Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 {{cc-by-nc-2.0}}
• NonCommercial-ShareAlike {{cc-nc-sa}}
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike {{cc-by-nc-sa}}
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 {{cc-by-nc-sa-2.0}}
• NoDerivs-NonCommercial {{cc-nd-nc}}
• Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial {{cc-by-nd-nc}}
• Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 2.0 {{cc-by-nd-nc-2.0}}

Deprecated tags

You may find images with one of the following tags as well. These tags are used to mark images which are deprecated, and will eventually be deleted:

• {{unverified}} - for an image with no source or license information; these will be deleted unless the information can be obtained. (view)
• {{noncommercial}} - where there is general noncommercial permission (view)
• {{noncommercialProvided}} - where there is general noncommercial permission provided that... (e.g.) the photographer is credited. (view)
• {{copyrighted}} - where we have Ireland Information Guide-specific permission (view)

Verified fair use

An approval process for fair use images at has been proposed at Ireland Information Guide:Fair use. Images which have gone through that process carry the tag:

Rationale

But why? ... we hear you cry.

Well, it is a few things:

1. What's "fair use" in one country may not be "fair use" in another country; this allows people creating derivative works in other countries to extract images which aren't legal in their country.
2. It is harder to create decent images than decent text, so the temptation to break copyright is bigger, so we like to be a bit more vigilant. For this very reason, sublicensees of Ireland Information Guide are going to be especially concerned about images, particularly for printed versions.
3. Secondly, it's easy to rewrite text that turns out to be copyrighted, but harder (though possible) to do the same for images.
4. It is good practice to cite our sources, where we've (legally) copied images from elsewhere. If we give due credit, we're more likely to get permission (and some licenses require due credit anyway).
5. Where Ireland Information Guide users have created the images, they should have a bit of fame! Putting some text on the image description page that they took it themselves, and they license it under the GFDL, is a good way to do that.

Members

This is a team of Ireland Information Guide users who have volunteered to help do this vital work.

• Morwen
• Secretlondon
• Anthony DiPierro
• Imran
• Maximus Rex
• Angela
• Flockmeal