Hey there WeatherWriter! You're the first person my primitive brain thought of when asking this (funny enough), but are ALL .gov images public domain? I'm trying to find one for Pedro Fire, but don't know if all .gov images are in the public domain or just the NWS ones. Thanks! :) Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 03:56, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Answer gets weird. So if it is made by the federal government (part of List of federal agencies in the United States or a direct subpage like Independent agencies of the United States government), then it is automatically public domain. State governments also use .gov URLS, and every state government has different copyright rules. The Commons has a page regarding this: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United States.

To help out, all of the references for the Pedro Fire seem to be from the California state government (fire.ca.gov), so per Template:PD-CAGov on the Commons, it appears everything from fire.ca.gov is public domain.

Hopefully this helped explain some. Only a few states (like 5 I think) have public domain publications. Every other state is copyright protected. However, the true U.S. federal government is always public domain if they made the image/item in question. NWS is the odd-ball who allows non-U.S. government photos to be on U.S. government websites. If you find some specific question, I can try to help find that info out for you, but that should hopefully be enough to answer the question you had. Cheers! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 04:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, maybe not on that public domain-ness for fire.ca.gov. I just realized the California State Fire Marshall (per that PD-CAGov template) is copyrighted. This is going to take some research to figure out. I typically steer clear of state-government stuff, since copyright is always weird (due to each state having unique guidelines and rules). The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 04:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, copyrights in general are just extremely confusing. Thanks for responding so quickly aswell! Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 04:28, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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