Category:No local image but image on Wikidata. Just look at one of these articles, then open the "Wikidata item" link in the toolbar and see if there is an appropriate photo in commons.
- Random page with a wikidata image, but none in its infobox
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/License_review_needed
To download a "zoomable" image available in many cells, such as from multiple online catalogues: http://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html
Useful US old work copyright templates:
- {{PD-US-no notice}}
![]() | This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977 inclusive, without a copyright notice. Unless the author has been dead for several years, it is not in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works. This includes Canada, China (not Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan Area), Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and other countries with individual treaties. See also further explanation. | ![]() |
![]() | This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation. | ![]() |
- {{PD-US-1978-89}} - not this one, but the one on Commons, which reads:
![]() | This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1978 and March 1, 1989 without a copyright notice, and its copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years. It is not in the public domain in the following countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works: Canada, China (not Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan Area), Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation. | ![]() |
- According to The Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices: Chapter 2200, § 2207.1(C) at p. 18:
- "A notice of copyright on the dust jacket of a book is not an acceptable notice for the book, because the dust jacket is not permanently attached to the book. Likewise, a notice appearing in a book is not an acceptable notice for the dust jacket or any material appearing on that dust jacket, even if the book refers to the jacket or material appearing on the jacket.".
- For Copyright renewal in the United States: for works (books and films), with US copyright notices from 1925-1963.
- Internet Archive Copyright renewal records: https://archive.org/details/copyrightrecords has through 1978; search in text, not metadata, look up to 28 years after initial publication.
- https://cocatalog.loc.gov/ has 1978-, sort by original dates, renewals will be earlier, and registration numbers will start with RE.
- Recent (2022) Commons deletion case about an EBay image front and back showing lack of copyright notice: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:JimLondos.jpg
- If you ask someone to take a photo of you, who holds copyright? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Authorship_and_Copyright_Ownership#The_Example_of_the_Third_Party_Photographer
- How about Zoom calls? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_in_Zoom_Images
- Images of cars, clothes, machinery, etc...: Copyright law of the United States#Useful articles
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:How_Alamy_is_stealing_your_images
- US government contractors (mostly Department of Energy) https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170943/http://cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html#40
- Unlike works of the U.S. Government, works produced by contractors under government contracts are protected under U.S. Copyright Law. ... The ownership of the copyright depends on the terms of the contract.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ornl.gov) seems all right: https://www.ornl.gov/ornl/contact-us/Security--Privacy-Notice Copyright status Documents provided from the web server were sponsored by the U.S. Government ... Unless otherwise noted, they have been placed in the public domain, although we request the following credit line be used when documents or figures are used elsewhere: “Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
- Los Alamos is also good: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-LosAlamos
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jpl-image-use-policy
- A user who makes an article about a female or minority scientist every day, so an environment rich with opportunity: User:GRuban/Jess Wade Images
Finding images
edit- Google image search, Labeled for reuse with modification
- Openverse - WordPress search, for when Flickr Image Search goes down, which it often does.
- https://www.bram.us/2008/01/12/my-priceless-flickr-tip-how-to-find-the-original-flickr-photo-url-and-user-from-a-static-flickr-image-url/ Got a link like //farm3.static.flickr.com/2085/2177060015_258bcfaff9_m.jpg and want to find out which user posted it, more images by that user, see the full-size version, etc? From the URL you’ve got take extract the image name (2177060015_258bcfaff9_m.jpg) and split it on the underscore. The first part is the photoID, the second part is the hash/salt and (if there) the third part the size (Full format: photoId_hash_size.jpg). Now append that photoId to http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id= and *MAGIC* there you have it, the Original Flickr Photo URL (and the user) 🙂 The example above would be transformed to http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=2177060015
- https://www.voanews.com/s - note that that most photos on site are from AP or Reuters, so not public domain - look for VOA watermark or label. VOA videos are also good.
- Project Gutenberg (Google Search, because the onsite search is terrible) find a book, either go to the More files... section, look in the Images folder to see whether there are any, or at the HTML version (to see the images in context)
- YouTube (The Google image search failed in summer 2017, soon after I left, and hasn't been fixed since, despite my writing my old team)
- To get the default YouTube thumbnail screenshot from a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGtps--wNc4 go to https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KGtps--wNc4/maxresdefault.jpg
- Bookmarklet to convert YouTube page to Wikimedia Commons form info:
javascript:function q(s){return document.querySelector(s)}q("#expand").click();function t(s){return q(s).innerText.trim().replace(/\|/g,"{{!}}")}setTimeout(function(){document.documentElement.innerText="{{Information\n|description={{en|1="+t(".ytp-title-text")+"\n\n"+t("#description-inline-expander yt-attributed-string")+"}}\n|date="+q('[itemprop=uploadDate]').content+"\n|source=["+document.URL+" "+t(".ytp-title-text") +"]\n|author=["+q("ytd-channel-name a").href+" "+t("ytd-channel-name")+"]\n|permission=\n|other versions=\n}}\n"+(q("a[href=\"https://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons\"]")?"=={{int:license-header}}==\n{{YouTube}}\n{{YouTubeReview}}":"Standard YouTube License (no good for Wikimedia Commons)")+"\n\n";var a=document.createElement("a");a.href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uploadformstyle=basic";a.target="_blank";a.innerText="Basic Upload Form";document.documentElement.appendChild(a);},100);
- Vimeo
- Similar bookmarklet for Vimeo:
javascript:function q(s){return document.querySelector(s);}function t(s){return q(s)?q(s).innerText.trim().replace(/\|/g,"{{!}}"):""}var l=q("[rel=license]");l=l?"{{Cc"+(l.href.includes("/cc0")?"-zero":l.href.substr(36).replace(/\/\b/g,"-").replace(/\//,""))+"}}{{LicenseReview}}":"All rights reserved (no good for Wikimedia Commons)";document.documentElement.innerText="{{Information\n|description={{en|1="+t("title")+"\n\n"+t("div[data-description-content=true]")+"}}\n|date="+q("time[datetime]").dateTime.substring(0, 10)+"\n|source=["+document.URL+" "+t("title") +"]\n|author=["+q(".js-user_link").href+" "+t(".js-user_link")+"]\n|permission=[[COM:WHERE#Vimeo]]\n|other versions=\n}}\n"+l+"\n\n";var a=document.createElement("a");a.href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uploadformstyle=basic";a.target="_blank";a.innerText="Basic Upload Form";document.documentElement.appendChild(a);
- https://www.dvidshub.net/ - similarly, the Google Image search finds us government images on .mil and .gov sites, but not here
- If you register an account - free - you can download an entire gallery of images at once.
- http://www.deutschefotothek.de - historical German images, low resolution online versions are cc by-sa 3.0
- https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en - not all free
Old Books
editSpecific images for articles to download
edit- https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress/videos (PD-USGov) Library of Congress videos
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOJAC5fQcjc2dQ2dUPCnh4Q Arisa White, Jewelle Gomez, others at the San Francisco Public Library
- https://vimeo.com/32019914 Jonathan Teplitzky
- Many others on https://vimeo.com/collidervideo
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/simonsayz315/3262047480/in/album-72157613487696148/ Angelin Chang (see https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/angelin-chang-2009-musicares-person-year-106401353?src=X-ZG1yv3InsahLyC9OQ5wQ-1-8)
- Others at https://www.youtube.com/user/wizardradiomedia/videos
- Playwrights from HowlRound https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-8ID1fxMapLBg5hpfnOs8Q
- https://vimeo.com/55995360 Karin Anna Cheung
- [6,12,14,100,106,0,9}] Arjuna award: Lots of Indian athletes, images already on commons!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7FTJnZTQ2w Megan Griffiths
- More from https://www.youtube.com/user/macguffinpodcast/videos
- https://www.youtube.com/user/networx21/videos Others from Hollywood Social Lounge
- https://vimeo.com/290419100 Alex Seton
- https://vimeo.com/sullivanandstrumpf others from Sullivan & Strumpf
- https://www.fulltable.com/vts/g/gym/stack/a.htm Prunella Stack
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TJYhtqwcM Virginia DeMarce
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eILksASDf9w Doc Martin
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erl9a_PiA24 Juliane Wetzel
- https://vimeo.com/221236982 Simone Cipriani, maybe others
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK7ah7u2L7s Don La Greca
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW8zyhEUt6s Marina Shafir
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgTN3wr2KZU Raquel González (wrestler); more from https://www.youtube.com/c/DivaInsider/videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE4X0-BWt4A Marilyn Lightstone
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2aNwh_XMc Larry Gostin
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpiqvQCOVvk Adrienne-Joi Johnson
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEm6DMMr4W JoJo Fletcher, more from https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeLoveandPopCulture/videos