Help:Image licensing

All images on Portal Wiki must be accompanied by a license template that shows the copyright status of the image. This article lists the types of licensing templates available for use.

Guidelines

Images and media on the Portal Wiki must follow these licensing guidelines.

• All images must have a license template appear on their file page;
• The license template used must be correct; examples of incorrect licensing:
  • claiming fair use justification ({{FairUse}}) on an screenshot image;
  • using a public domain ({{PD}}) license on a copyrighted image;
• If the image contains trademark(s), the tag {{Trademark}} must be used in addition to the appropriate license tag for the image.
  • e.g. if a {{PD}} image contains a trademark, its page should display {{PD}} and {{Trademark}}

For guidelines on image quality and resolution, please see Help:Image guidelines.

Portal 2 Game content

Any Portal 2 images, screenshots, audio clips, other content extracted from game files or artwork or concept images created by Valve should use the following templates. Do not mark any of this content using other licenses or claiming it under fair use.

The majority of files uploaded will use these licenses.

Copyright

Artwork

• {{ArtworkP2}}
  • for all artwork, concept images, or other drawings by Valve for the game, including content from the official blog.
• {{ArtworkP2-Pre}}
  • for all artwork, concept images or screenshots of betas from pre-release or early versions of the game.

Screenshots

• {{ScreenshotP2}}
  • for all Portal 2 screenshots, regardless of who took them.

Audio

• {{AudioP2}}
  • for audio clips, music, sound effects or other audio-related files extracted from the game files.

Other game media

• {{ExtractP2}}
  • for media or other graphics extracted directly from the GCF cache files, such as materials, icons, or any other content that does not fit above.

Portal Game content

Any Portal images, screenshots, audio clips, other content extracted from game files or artwork or concept images created by Valve should use the following templates. Do not mark any of this content using other licenses or claiming it under fair use.

The majority of files uploaded will use these licenses.

Copyright

Artwork

• {{ArtworkP}}
  • for all artwork, concept images, or other drawings by Valve for the game, including content from the official blog.
• {{ArtworkP-Pre}}
  • for all artwork, concept images or screenshots of betas from pre-release or early versions of the game.

Screenshots

• {{ScreenshotP}}
  • for all Portal screenshots, regardless of who took them.

Audio

• {{AudioP}}
  • for audio clips, music, sound effects or other audio-related files extracted from the game files.

Other game media

• {{ExtractP}}
  • for media or other graphics extracted directly from the GCF cache files, such as materials, icons, or any other content that does not fit above.

Valve content

• {{Valve content}}
  • for any content owned by Valve that does not pertain to a particular game.
• {{Valve game content}}
  • for any content extracted from any other Valve title.

Free content

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

For images or media that use a Creative Commons license, the master template {{CC}} can be used. It supports 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 versions of BY, BY-SA and BY-NC-SA (noncommercial).

You can turn any of these licenses into "own release" licenses by adding self to {{CC}} like this: {{CC|by-3.0|self}}. This simply changes the wording of the license to indicate that you created the work yourself.

Public domain

Public Domain

Images or media that have been released into the public domain.

• {{PD}}
  • for images which have been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, whose copyright has expired or are ineligible for copyright.
    • Use this license for item name images. As they consist of purely text, they are ineligible for copyright.
• {{PD-self}}
  • for images that you yourself have created and release into the public domain.

GNU licenses

Copyleft

• {{GFDL}}
  • for images or media released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
• {{GPL}}
  • for images or media released under the GNU General Public License.
• {{LGPL}}
  • for images or media released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Fair Art License

• {{FAL}}
  • for images or media distributed under the terms of the Free Art License.

Non-free content

Fair use

• {{FairUse}}
  • for copyrighted images or media which are used under fair use terms.
  • Do not use this for any Valve images or content.
  • If applicable, you can use the first parameter to specify who owns the copyright: e.g. {{FairUse|Apple Inc}}

Trademarks

• {{Trademark}}
  • use this in addition to another license tag to show that the image contains trademark(s).