Thread:Ironwestie/@comment-32901910-20170820054737/@comment-5754239-20170820191944

Good question! These are image copyright tags that denote what licenses and Copyright an image is under.

"This will be used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US law" should be the default tag. As far as I know, SiIvaGunner projects are designated as "parody" content and fair use, so derivative works (like art work of Grand Dad, since he's a rip off of Mario) need to use this.

"Public domain" means that the work essentially has no copyright and can be used anywhere, whether commercially or non-commercially. I hesitate to say that any of SiIvaGunner works are public domain, since they are copyright by the people SiIvaGunner parodies. However, certain images (like the mugshot images in the Haltmann album) are public domain because the authors have released them to the public domain.

"This is copyrighted, but use is permitted by the copyright holder" should be the least used, since the team has not stated (in any capacity) what the copyright status of their original artworks is. Basically, if the team were to give explicit permission to use original works in a specific way (like only allowing parts of the image to appear on articles, or only on wikis), then we would use this.

TL;DR: When in doubt, use the first one. The wiki is supposed to be educational, so it should be considered fair use regardless.