{{money-US}} - for images of the official currency of the United States. These are in the public domain. (See also {{money}}.)
{{PD-art-US}} - for images of works of art published in the United States prior to 1923. But if the person or organization who digitized it has released it under another license, list that other license as well as this one.
{{PD-CAGov}} - for images created by the California state government that are ineligible for copyright (example).
{{PD-flag-US}} - for images of national, governmental, or historical flags out of copyright in the United States
{{PD-US}} - for copyright-expired images in the US (mainly those published pre-1923). Also for works not eligible for copyright under US law. (May be preferable in some cases vs. {{PD-old}} for US-originating images.)
{{PD-US-patent}} - for images from descriptions of US patents. These are in the public domain, though the actual inventions depicted might be encumbered by patents. [1] (http://www.uspto.gov/main/ccpubguide.htm)

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USA Federal government images

{{HABS}} - Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), Library of Congress images
{{PD-USGov}} - for images created by the US Federal Government that are ineligible for copyright such as Image:George-W-Bush.jpeg.
{{PD-USGov-Atlas}} - National Atlas
{{PD-USGov-CIA}} - Central Intelligence Agency
- {{PD-USGov-CIA-WF}} - CIA World Factbook.
{{PD-USGov-DHS}} - Department of Homeland Security
- {{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}} - Coast Guard
{{PD-USGov-DOC}} - Department of Commerce
- {{PD-USGov-DOC-Census}} - U.S. Census Bureau
- {{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}} - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Department of Defense - use {{PD-USGov-Military}})
{{PD-USGov-DOE}} - Department of Energy
{{PD-USGov-DOJ}} - Department of Justice
{{PD-USGov-DOT}} - Department of Transportation
{{PD-USGov-DOL}} - Department of Labor
{{PD-USGov-Education}} - Department of Education
{{PD-USGov-EPA}} - Environmental Protection Agency
{{PD-USGov-FAA}} - Federal Aviation Administration
{{PD-USGov-FBI}} - Federal Bureau of Investigation
{{PD-USGov-FDA}} - Food and Drug Administration
{{PD-USGov-HHS}} - Department of Health and Human Services
- {{PD-USGov-HHS-CDC}} - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- {{PD-USGov-HHS-NIH}} - National Institutes of Health
{{PD-USGov-Interior}} - Department of the Interior
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-BLM}} - Bureau of Land Management
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}} - Fish and Wildlife Service
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} - US National Park Service
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-USGS}} - US Geological Survey
  - {{PD-USGov-Interior-USGS-Minerals}} - "Minerals in Your World" project of the United States Geological Survey and the Mineral Information Institute.
- {{PD-USGov-Interior-USBR}} - Bureau of Reclamation
{{PD-USGov-NARA}} - National Archives and Records Administration
{{PD-USGov-NASA}} - for public domain images from NASA as described on Category:NASA images.
{{PD-USGov-NRO}} - The National Reconnaissance Office
{{PD-USGov-NSA}} - The National Security Agency
{{PD-USGov-POTUS}} - Executive Office of the President images
{{PD-USGov-State}} - State Department images
{{PD-USGov-Treasury}} - Department of the Treasury
{{PD-USGov-USDA}} - Department of Agriculture
- {{PD-USGov-USDA-ARS}} - USDA Agricultural Research Service.
- {{PD-USGov-USDA-FS}} - USDA Forest Service
- {{PD-USGov-USDA-NRCS}} - USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
{{PD-TVA}} - Tennessee Valley Authority

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USA military public domain images

{{PD-USGov-Military}} - general US military
{{PD-USGov-Military-Air Force}} - US Air Force images
- {{USAF-AUX}} - Civil Air Patrol images
- {{PD-USGov Military Air Force Maxwell}} - Maxwell AFB Website
{{PD-USGov-Military-Army}} - US Army images
- {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACE}} - United States Army Corps of Engineers
{{PD-USGov-Military-Award}} - for military medals
{{PD-USGov-Military-Badge}} - US military badges and insignia
{{PD-USGov-Military-Marines}} - US Marine Corps images
{{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} - US Navy images

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Worldwide?

I was told in the German Biocrawler and its mailing list that the follwing statement is not true:

in the public domain worldwide

According to

http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2004/09/copyright_in_go.html

which cites

http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/publications/04-8copyright.html#317

US government works are not necessarily in the public domain in other countries.

If you understand German, here is the link to the first mail on the German Biocrawler mailing list and the following debate:

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2004-September/019992.html

Thanks to Klaus Graf (de:Benutzer:Historiograf) for giving this hint.

Best regards, --zeno 19:24, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It appears to be rare but possible. It's not an area I have studied so I can't say much more than that. My impression is that it is safe enough to use them and leave it to the choice of the final user to decide, letting them use the image tagging to remove them if they do not want to use them. Jamesday 00:15, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

thank you for changing the text. --zeno 10:28, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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This is stuffing up.

Here's a good example:

This work is in the public domain because it is a work of the United States Federal Government. This applies worldwide. See Copyright.

Yes, it's broken for me too; can we fix it, or revert to the previous version for now if we can't? Thanks. — Matt 11:30, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

After a bit of debugging, I think it justs needs a newline at the top of the article. — Matt 12:44, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Template:PD-US

What's the difference between this template and Template:PD-US ? ✏ Sverdrup 21:11, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The differences are that PD-USGov refers to "work", versus PD-US's "image", and the former stating a worldwide public domain versus the latter saying the possibility of being public domain elsewhere. -- SEWilco 01:13, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- According to the statement at the top of Template talk:PD-US, it seems to be meant for images not produced by the government, but rather things that have expired copyright in the U.S., or were never eligible for copyright under U.S. law in the first place. Therefore, images under PD-USGov could be considered a subset of PD-US. (I suppose it might be good to break it down into PD-US-expired and PD-US-ineligible or something). —Mulad (talk) 15:13, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

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Seal

Any else get a tickle out of a template for public domain images including a fair use image embedded within it?

While not a "fair use image", it is most likely being used illegally. anthony (see warning) 06:04, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It seems Anthony is correct, see 18 USC 713 (http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=Great%20Seal&url=/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000713----000-.html). --Michael Snow 06:15, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Why not use the US flag as an image then? -Lommer 02:00, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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"This applies worldwide."

This may not apply worldwide (see above). Why was this (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:PD-USGov&diff=0&oldid=8818901) edit made? Guan aco 20:33, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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