User:JWilz12345/FoP global statuses
- Freedom of Panorama statuses internationally, in 197 countries.
- All 197 countries as per [1]. Non-commercial FoP (e.g. Azerbaijan, Cabo Verde, Morocco, South Korea, and Uzbekistan), incidental FoP (e.g. Cambodia, Luxembourg, and Zambia), and FoP for traditional mass media only (e.g. Greece, Lebanon, and UAE) are considered as not OK as these are not suitable for Wikimedia Commons. "Partial" denotes FoP is for architecture only but not other types of public artistic works.
- "YES" designation also includes countries with full FoP for 3D public space works (e.g. buildings and sculptural monuments) but limited or no FoP for most 2D public space works (e.g. murals and church/mosque/temple frescoes), like India and UK.
A more comprehensive table is available at Wikimedia Commons: c:Commons:Freedom of panorama/table.
- Statistics
Out of 197 countries...
- 109 have no FoP (55.33%), and
- 88 have some-form of Commons-compatible FoP (44.67%).
Out of those 88 countries...
- 80 have adequate FoP*, and
- 8 have partial FoP, for architecture only: Denmark, Finland, Japan, Malawi, Norway, Russia, Taiwan, United States
Note: * - accounts for 40.6% of all 197 countries. Percentage calculated using this online percentage calculator.
- Table
| Country | FoP status | Note/s 1 | Note/s 2 | Note/s 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | no | |||
| Albania | yes | COE | ||
| Algeria | yes | |||
| Andorra | no | COE | ||
| Angola | yes | |||
| Antigua and Barbuda | yes | |||
| Argentina[note 1] | no | |||
| Armenia | yes | COE | ||
| Australia | yes | ESEAP | APEC | |
| Austria | yes | EU | COE | |
| Azerbaijan | no | COE | ||
| Bahamas | yes | |||
| Bahrain | no | |||
| Bangladesh | no | |||
| Barbados | yes | |||
| Belarus | no | |||
| Belgium | yes | EU | COE | |
| Belize | yes | |||
| Benin | no | OAPI | ||
| Bhutan | no | |||
| Bolivia | yes | |||
| Bosnia and Hercegovina | no | COE | ||
| Botswana | no | |||
| Brazil | yes | |||
| Brunei | yes | ASEAN | ESEAP | APEC |
| Bulgaria | no | EU | COE | |
| Burkina Faso | no | OAPI | ||
| Burma / Myanmar | no | ASEAN | ESEAP | |
| Burundi | no | |||
| Cabo Verde | no | |||
| Cambodia | no | ASEAN | ESEAP | |
| Cameroon | no | OAPI | ||
| Canada | yes | APEC | ||
| Central African Republic | no | OAPI | ||
| Chad | no | OAPI | ||
| Chile | yes | APEC | ||
| China | yes | ESEAP | APEC | |
| China: HongKong S.A.R. | yes | ESEAP | APEC | |
| China: Macao S.A.R. | yes | ESEAP | ||
| Colombia | yes | |||
| Comoros | no | OAPI | ||
| Congo-Brazzaville (R.) | no | OAPI | ||
| Congo-Kinshasa (D.R.) | no | |||
| Costa Rica | no | |||
| Côte d'Ivoire | no | OAPI | ||
| Croatia | yes | EU | COE | |
| Cuba | yes | |||
| Cyprus | yes | EU | COE | |
| Czech Republic (native Czechia) | yes | EU | COE | |
| Denmark | partial | EU | COE | |
| Djibouti | no | |||
| Dominica | no | |||
| Dominican Republic | yes | |||
| East Timor / Timor-Leste | yes | ESEAP | ||
| Ecuador | no | |||
| Egypt | yes | |||
| El Salvador | yes | |||
| Equatorial Guinea | no | OAPI | ||
| Eritrea | no | |||
| Estonia | no | EU | COE | |
| Eswatini | no | |||
| Ethiopia | no | |||
| Fiji | yes | ESEAP | ||
| Finland | partial | EU | COE | |
| France | no | EU | COE | |
| Gabon | yes | OAPI | ||
| Gambia | no | |||
| Georgia | no | COE | ||
| Germany | yes | EU | COE | |
| Ghana | no | |||
| Greece | no | EU | COE | |
| Grenada | yes | |||
| Guatemala | no | |||
| Guinea | no | OAPI | ||
| Guinea-Bissau | yes | OAPI | ||
| Guyana | yes | |||
| Haiti | no | |||
| Honduras | no | |||
| Hungary | yes | EU | COE | |
| Iceland | no | COE | ||
| India | yes | |||
| Indonesia | no | ASEAN | ESEAP | APEC |
| Iran | no | |||
| Iraq | no | |||
| Ireland | yes | EU | COE | |
| Israel | yes | |||
| Italy | no | EU | COE | |
| Jamaica | yes | |||
| Japan | partial | ESEAP | APEC | |
| Jordan | no | |||
| Kazakhstan | no | |||
| Kenya | yes | |||
| Kiribati | no | ESEAP | ||
| Korea, North (DPRK) | yes | |||
| Korea, South (ROK) | no | ESEAP | APEC | |
| Kosovo | yes | |||
| Kuwait | no | |||
| Kyrgyzstan | no | |||
| Lao PDR | no | ASEAN | ESEAP | |
| Latvia | no | EU | COE | |
| Lebanon | no | |||
| Lesotho | no | |||
| Liberia | no | |||
| Libya | no | |||
| Liechtenstein | yes | COE | ||
| Lithuania | no | EU | COE | |
| Luxembourg | no | EU | COE | |
| Madagascar | no | |||
| Malawi | partial | |||
| Malaysia | yes | ASEAN | ESEAP | APEC |
| Maldives | no | |||
| Mali | no | OAPI | ||
| Malta | yes | EU | COE | |
| Marshall Islands[note 2] | yes | ESEAP | ||
| Mauritania | yes | OAPI | ||
| Mauritius | no | |||
| Mexico | yes | APEC | ||
| Micronesia (FS) | no | ESEAP | ||
| Moldova | yes | COE | ||
| Monaco | no | COE | ||
| Mongolia | yes | ESEAP | ||
| Montenegro | no | COE | ||
| Morocco | no | |||
| Mozambique | no | |||
| Namibia | no | |||
| Nauru | no | ESEAP | ||
| Nepal | no | |||
| Netherlands | yes | EU | COE | |
| New Zealand | yes | ESEAP | APEC | |
| Nicaragua | no | |||
| Niger | no | OAPI | ||
| Nigeria | no | |||
| North Macedonia | yes | COE | ||
| Norway | partial | COE | ||
| Oman | no | |||
| Pakistan | yes | |||
| Palau | no | ESEAP | ||
| Palestine | yes | |||
| Panama | yes | |||
| Papua New Guinea | no | ESEAP | APEC | |
| Paraguay | yes | |||
| Peru | yes | APEC | ||
| Philippines | no | ASEAN | ESEAP | APEC |
| Poland | yes | EU | COE | |
| Portugal | yes | EU | COE | |
| Qatar | no | |||
| Romania | no | EU | COE | |
| Russian Federation | partial | APEC | ||
| Rwanda | no | |||
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | yes | |||
| Saint Lucia | yes | |||
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | yes | |||
| Samoa (Western) | no | ESEAP | ||
| San Marino | no | COE | ||
| São Tomé e Príncipe | yes | |||
| Saudi Arabia | no | |||
| Senegal | no | OAPI | ||
| Serbia | yes | COE | ||
| Seychelles | no | |||
| Sierra Leone | no | |||
| Singapore | yes | ASEAN | ESEAP | APEC |
| Slovakia | yes | EU | COE | |
| Slovenia | no | EU | COE | |
| Solomon Islands | yes | ESEAP | ||
| Somalia | no | |||
| South Africa | no | |||
| South Sudan | no | |||
| Spain | yes | EU | COE | |
| Sri Lanka | no | |||
| Sudan | no | |||
| Suriname | yes | |||
| Sweden | yes | EU | COE | |
| Switzerland | yes | COE | ||
| Syria | no | |||
| Taiwan / Chinese Taipei | partial | ESEAP | APEC | |
| Tajikistan | no | |||
| Tanzania | no | |||
| Thailand | yes | ASEAN | ESEAP | APEC |
| Togo | no | OAPI | ||
| Tonga | no | ESEAP | ||
| Trinidad and Tobago | yes | |||
| Tunisia | yes | |||
| Türkiye | yes | COE | ||
| Turkmenistan | no | |||
| Tuvalu | yes | ESEAP | ||
| Uganda | yes | |||
| Ukraine | no | COE | ||
| United Arab Emirates (UAE) | no | |||
| United Kingdom (UK) | yes | COE | ||
| United States of America (USA) | partial | APEC | ||
| Uruguay | yes | |||
| Uzbekistan | no | |||
| Vanuatu | no | ESEAP | ||
| Vatican City[note 3] | no | |||
| Venezuela | yes | |||
| Vietnam | no | ASEAN | ESEAP | APEC |
| Yemen | no | |||
| Zambia | no | |||
| Zimbabwe | yes |
- Note/s 1 remarks
- ASEAN – country is a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations
- EU – country is a member of the European Union organization.
- OAPI – country is a member of Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle. The Bangui Agreement[2] that governs it provides a non-commercial FoP at Annex VII, Part I, Article 16; it is unsure if there is an effect in that provision's conflict with unrestricted FoP legal rights of 3 of the 17 member states: Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, and Mauritania.
- Note/s 2 remarks
- ESEAP – country is in a Wikimedia region known as ESEAP (ESEAP Hub)
- Note/s 3 remarks
- APEC - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
- COE - Council of Europe
- Footnotes
- ↑ On Wikimedia Commons, Argentina is considered to have a de facto FoP for architecture, based on a perspective of an Argentine lawyer about permissible photographic reproductions of buildings (brought in a July 2010 discussion). However, it was put into question in two discussions (from December 2022, from September 2023), especially regarding the actual context of the Argentine lawyer's perspective, if that extends to commercial distributions of images or not. Also, contrary to a claim in the 2010 discussion that Argentina follows customary law in copyright, a Harvard article states that the country follows civil law system following the European system. See also c:Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Argentina#Freedom of panorama. On top of that, Infojustice.org tells of a proposal in 2017 to add more limitations/exceptions for the Argentine copyright law (Law No. 11.723), one of which would have been a freedom of panorama provision. Instead, most of the suggested exceptions were abolished, and the only surviving exception to be passed concerns free uses of works for persons with disabilities (PWDs), as proven by the resulting amendment law, Law No. 27.588 of November 11, 2020, on Amendments to Law No. 11.723 (WIPO copy).
- ↑ They have no copyright law.
- ↑ Church decrees govern papal works, but works of art and architecture are governed by Italian copyright law. Italy has no FoP so Vatican City has no FoP too. Refer to c:Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Vatican City#Freedom of panorama.