Template:PDMark-owner
 
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This file is made available by its copyright holder under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0. |
| While the Public Domain Mark is not intended to be used as a license, community consensus has found that when a copyright holder applies the PDM to their own work, they are declaring their work to be in the public domain.
If a file is tagged PDM by someone other than the copyright holder, a more specific copyright tag such as one found at Commons:Copyright tags/General public domain must be applied. If this is your own work, please use {{Cc-zero}} instead. |
- This template will categorize into Category:PDMark-owner.
This template marks all images where an external copyright holder has applied the Public Domain Mark. Do not use this template for your own work! {{Cc-zero}} is preferred if you wish to release your work into the public domain.
The template automatically sets the following categories: PDMark-owner
Usage
{{PDMark-owner}}
While the Public Domain Mark is not the ideal way to release one's own work into the public domain, it is nonetheless accepted if no other license is available, as some websites (most notably Flickr) make it very easy to select with little explanation of the difference between it and the CC0. However, if possible try to get the copyright holder to change the license to CC0, which is a public domain dedication that provides better legal certainty.
Unlike CC0 or the other Creative Commons licenses, the Public Domain Mark is not a legal instrument; there is no accompanying legal code or agreement. Instead, the Public Domain Mark is a tool that allows anyone to mark a work that they believe to be free of known copyright restrictions. However, it does not say why the image is in public domain and this part has to be added by the user.
The tools also differ in terms of their effect when applied to a work. CC0 is legally operative in the sense that when it is applied, it changes the copyright status of the work, effectively relinquishing all copyright and related or neighboring rights worldwide. PDM is not legally operative in any respect – it is intended to function as a label, marking a work that is already free of known copyright restrictions worldwide.
— Creative Commons, https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/PDM_FAQ
With this announcement Flickr users will be able to choose from among our six standard licenses, our public domain dedication, and they will also be able to mark others' works that are in the public domain.
— Creative Commons, https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45355
Notwithstanding, community consensus has decided to accept files which are labeled as Public Domain Mark by their copyright holders.
The template takes no parameters.
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users
Placement: In the "Permission" parameter of the {{Information}} template (or the respective parameter of similar templates) or in the "Licensing" section
Relies on:
{{CC-Layout}}
See also
- {{CC-zero}} for your files you would like to release to Public Domain and for flickr files which are tagged as "public domain" and link to CC-zero license
- {{PD-author}} for other files released by copyright holders to Public Domain
- {{PD-author-FlickrPDM}} for flickr files which use Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 as license
Localization
This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PDMark-owner/layout.
To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PDMark-owner/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.