Commons:WikiProject Public Domain

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This is WikiProject Public Domain, a WikiProject for focused collaboration among users on the topic of Public Domain.

WikiProject Public Domain aims to support the Commons community's efforts to organise Commons' public domain materials, and to ensure that these materials meet Commons licensing policy.

To do

• /URAA review
• /PD review
• /German stamps review
• /PD-because review
• /PD-VOA review
• /PD-tag deprecation
• {{PD-Afghanistan}} review (once in a while discussed at COM:VP and similar places)
• {{PD-in}}
• /PD-Art review
• /PD-old review
• /PD-US review

Categories

• Category:Public domain - main Commons maintenance category
• Category:PD license tags
• Category:PD files for review (119) / Category:PD reviewed files (33,595)
• Category:PD tag needs updating (23)
• Category:PD other reasons (reasons may be wrong or tagging improvable)
• Category:Items with disputed copyright information (4,446)

Resources

• Commons:Licensing#Material in the public domain
• Commons:PD files
• Help:Public domain
• {{Copyright information}} - where a file has multiple copyright aspects (eg a recent photo of an old public domain sculpture), this template makes it easy to make the copyright status clear.
• Commons:WikiProject Public Domain/Commons public domain review notification

Copyright determination

• Commons:Hirtle chart (when materials enter the public domain in the US)
• s:en:Help:Public domain – a similar chart for books
• Public Domain calculator by Europeana - for EU countries