Help:License templates

The license(s) of each FamilySearch Wiki image should reflect the license(s) in the original source. Select from among the following license templates to display the corresponding permission status of each image after  inserting the template Information, Flickr or Geograph:

Template:Information
Copy and paste the contents of one of the following boxes, and then fill-in each line after the = .

Template:Flickr
Copy and paste the contents of this box, and then fill-in each line after the = .

Template:Non-free use rationale

 * Employ this template to describe a copyrighted image used under the legal doctrine of .

Template:Self

 * Use this template when you are self-publishing your own work for the first time.


 * When tagging another author's self-published work which originally used this template, it is better to use the Self2 template below.

Template:Self2

 * Use this template for second-person authors whose work and licenses were first self-published elsewhere within a Self template.

Public domain license templates

 * See also Template:Cc-zero, a Creative Commons public domain license.

Template:PD

 * Avoid PD, which is too generic. Where possible, always use more specific public domain (PD) templates like PD-author, or for your own work PD-self, or PD-old-auto (with an author-death-year parameter) if the old copyright has expired.

Template:PD-1923

 * This template is premised on the publication date. If you can discover the author's death date, please prefer PD-old-auto.

Template:PD-author

 * Use this template for second-person authors whose work and license were first published elsewhere with a PD-self template.


 * When tagging your own work it is better to use the PD-self template.

Template:PD-old-auto (and related templates)
If you provide the death year of the author (for example, 1941) as a parameter (for example, ), this template automatically calculates and displays the longest-allowable copyright span as the life of the author plus either 70, 75, 80, 90, or 100 years. As years pass, the license span will change, because more years will have elapsed since the life of that author. Once this template is used, there is no need to re-edit the page, because it will automatically adjust for the actual year (currently: 2024), in the future. For example, ' displays as: '


 * Template:PD-old-70.  Where possible, avoid using PD-old-70 directly. Prefer PD-old-auto with an author's-death-year parameter.

'''Template:PD-old-75. ''' Do not use PD-old-75 directly. Prefer PD-old-auto with an author's-death-year parameter.

'''Template:PD-old-80. ''' Do not use PD-old-80 directly. Prefer PD-old-auto with an author's-death-year parameter.

'''Template:PD-old-90. ''' Do not use PD-old-90 directly. Prefer PD-old-auto with an author's-death-year parameter.

'''Template:PD-old-100. ''' Do not use PD-old-100 directly. Prefer PD-old-auto with an author's-death-year parameter.

Template:PD-self

 * Use this template when you are self-publishing a work for the first time.


 * When tagging another author's self-published work which originally used this template, it is better to use the PD-author template.

Template:Attribution

 * This template as demonstrated here may  use an optional customized attribution statement:

Template:Non-free newspaper image

 * ONLY for copyrighted newspaper articles used under the  doctrine.