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Picture of an author from his relative's own collection
Hi, I am working on adding a photo of Harold Berson, a children's author who died in 1986, to the infobox on his Wikipedia page. The photo was sent to me for the purposes of adding to the page by the author's nephew. It is from the nephew's own family photo collection and was taken in the 1950s.
I assume I need to provide evidence of permission. Is a copy of my email thread with the nephew sufficient? Any guidance otherwise?
Wiltonj (talk) 14:22, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- This is problematic. Phyaical possession of a copy of the photograph does not create any right to license it. Since the article subject died more than thirty years ago, and no free images are likely to be available, there is no problem with including a nonfree image -- in principle. However, WP:NFCC#4 (and in many cases fair use principles) requires that an nonfree image must have already been published under the authority of the copyright holder, which wouldn't be true of the image you want to upload. Your best bet is probably going to be to scan and upload a jacket/publicity photo from one of the author's books, or dig one out at archive.org, which has limited-access copies of many of those books. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 23:12, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
address to send my email
I want to send a form requesting permission to use with a free license CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Is the correct place to send the filled out form still at permissions@commonswikimedia.org ?
--Toploftical (talk) 13:06, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Toploftical. If you mean that you want to give your permission for a file that you hold the copyright on to be released under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, then I believe you can send your email to either permissions-commons@wikimedia.org or permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Please see WP:CONSENT or c:COM:OTRS#Declaration of consent for all enquiries for some example emails you can use for reference. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- thanks --Toploftical (talk) 13:51, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
License agreement / License statement template
Hello, Wikipedia community!
I am new here and would much appreciate help regarding the uploading of images. I with a couple of friends am running a campaign to protect the river Vydrica [1] in our country, Slovakia. In the process, we created some nice photos of nature which we would like to upload to Wikimedia Commons. I am uploading them for the team.
That means, in the file upload wizard (https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard&withJS=MediaWiki:FileUploadWizard.js)
they fall under the category This is a free work. / This file was given to me by its owner.
To do it all correctly, I should provide a license statement / license agreement and send it to Wikimedia. It will be no problem to obtain these, but I did not find a template. Where can I find one? Should they be printed out and signed manually?
Many thanks, I am looking forward to enriching Wikipedia by our work!
Dalibor
--Larch150 (talk) 07:09, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Larch150 the procedure is found on the OTRS Team's page on the commons. Please upload them on the commons and not here. That way other language wikis can use the images too. It is not quite as easy as stating This is a free work. / This file was given to me by its owner, because that does not state a specific free license. We need copyright holder's verified permission as well the name of the photographer. It would be easier for each photographer to get their own wiki account and then upload their own images, then they don't need to submit their permissions for images you would upload. Besides which the OTRS team are backlogged about 60 days so permission verification is taking a long time. ww2censor (talk) 08:20, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
I wonder if someone better versed could evaluate the possibility of the fourth image here [2] qualifying as fair use in British_Airways_Flight_5390 -- unique historic image or whatnot. I think probably not but it's too good to not get a second opinion. Thanks! EEng 21:12, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 April 30#File:CS Banana.jpg. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)Template:Z48