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Free files can be moved to the Wikimedia Commons. This category is not shown on its member pages unless the appropriate user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set. Media in category "Public domain images ineligible for copyright (shape)"
Many of these images will get deleted on Commons as they are still copyrighted in their country of origin or have insufficient source information to satisfy the Commons:Project scope. This category is intended to hold images that are in the public domain in the United States.
Needpix - library of more than 1.5 million free, or so-called Public Domain Photos and Illustrations licensed with CC0. PDPics.com – Public domain photo collection with about 7400 high resolution pictures up to 6000x4000. All images licensed under CC0 license. Smithsonian Institution – Open Access – 2.8 million Free Public Domain images ...
Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country. Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.
Whenever an image is tagged using one of these tags, the image description page should also contain some rationale as to whether and why the image is presumed to be in the public domain in the U.S. and other countries. See also {}, which can be used to state that the copyright on the image was not restored by the URAA.
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
The images in this category were published in the United States without copyright notice prior to 1978, which causes the work to be irrevocably in the Public Domain. To place a file in this category , add the tag {{ PD-Pre1978 }} to the bottom of the file's description page.
Images only qualify as being in the public domain if they fall under certain specific categories described below – images ineligible for copyright protection, very old works, works by certain government employees, and works where an explicit disclaimer of copyright has been made in writing by the author.