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I was wondering, can we use images that are copyrighted provided we have the permission of the copyright holder? Thanks. Ingdalevri ( talk) 15:29, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Are official US presidential portrait paintings PD-USGov? These are commissioned works but the painters do not in most cases appear to be "employees" of the federal government, so I don't really see how PD-USGov would apply. File:Official White House Portrait of George W. Bush.jpg was recently uploaded, ostensibly as non-free, but with a clearly false FUR, used in at least two articles where non-free use is clearly inappropriate, and with no FUR at all for the one where it just marginally might be. Earlier portraits, such as File:Ghwbush.jpeg and File:Bclinton.jpeg, are on Commons and claimed as PD. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
I barely don't understand NFCC so I'm asking a dumb question here. Can an image of a defunct sports team (ex:
File:PhiladelphiaStarsCapLogo2.png) be used on the team's page (ex:
Philadelphia Stars (baseball)) and a smaller image on a page of a list of teams in that league (ex:
list of Negro league baseball teams)? Rgrds. (Dynamic IP, will change when I log off.) --
64.85.220.19 (
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14:50, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello-
I am a radiologist and I would like to supply images to the Wiki articles on a number of diseases with CT and MRI images. I have removed any identifying information from the images (all text, any meta information) so that they are anonymized. May I post those images?
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kinchip ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Can anybody check if I did it rightly to upload that picture to the article hikikomori? Thank. Kotjap ( talk) 02:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
This may sound like an obvious question but I've never done this before. I have a photo of an actress friend, she gave me to put on her wikipedia page. I'm not sure what type of license it is when a friend just gives you a photo of themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nmarsh2k ( talk • contribs) 08:18, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
It violated my copyright. Fragment taken from here:
I do not object to use. But, without attribution - it is bad. Please paste the link. // Mammadov JM ( talk) 07:36, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. Do not mind. // Mammadov JM ( talk) 10:21, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
When are you people going to get your act together? I create media for an article, tag it as I'm supposed to and a year later someone else comes along and tells me that my own work will be deleted over copyright.
If you don't want people to contribute to Wikipedia just say so, rather than making us try to infer it from your actions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.22.56 ( talk) 13:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I realise that using it in the way it is being used on this site is considered Fair Use regardless of the answer to my question, but I was wondering whether this logo is an actual trademark (seeing as USB was created by a group of unrelated companies) or is copyrighted, and if so, who owns it? The reason I ask is because on the "licencing" part of the page for it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USB_Icon.svg ), it says that it can't be copyrighted because of genericness of the design (although it looks recognisable and individual enough to me to warrant being copyrightable) and is Public Domain, but it goes on to say it is a Trademark... can anyone explain this to me please?
I can't find reference to it at usb.org except in answer to "can I use the High Speed USB logo on our connectors" they've said "you should use the USB Trident logo". They don't even show a picture of that logo on the site alongside all their other logos.
Sorry if this isn't the place to discuss this. Please don't flame-grill me or whatever it is the younguns say. Musophil ( talk) 14:16, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
My edits to Tales of Moonlight and Rain have come under some fire from an IP user who appears to believe that incorporating text translated from Japanese Wikipedia is a copyright violation. I was under the impression that being open about the translation in edit summaries and/or on the talk page was enough to cover the attribution issue, since Japanese Wikipedia is free-to-use the same as English Wikipedia. However, the IP and I appear to have interpreted WP:COPYWITHIN#Translating from other language Wikimedia Projects differently. I understand that by not specifically citing the version and date of the Japanese text I had translated within my edit summary may have been a technical violation, and I apologize for this gaffe.
The issue is slightly complicated by the fact that at the time I produced the translation I could only finish half of it. I placed the other half of the original Japanese text in the form of a WP:COMMENT with the intention of coming back later or leaving it for someone else to finish. Since this is obviously not claiming the work of another as my own, and the text does not appear on the Wikipedia article itself (it's hidden in the code), I really don't see how that could violate copyright.
Finally, if any of the above (not properly formatting my citation of ja.wiki, copy-pasting text in the form of a comment) is in fact a CO violation, I must admit to having previously violated these rules on Nijō family ( [1]), Satō Tadanobu ( [2]), Ochiai Naobumi ( [3]), Izumi Shikibu ( [4]) and probably a few others. I apologize for this, and if what I have done merits some kind of punishment then I humbly ask for leniency in light of my obvious good faith and my prior ignorance of the rules.
elvenscout742 ( talk) 02:38, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
I came across a Japanese government website with a large amount of aerial photography of Japan. They have put copyright notices on the pages/images. Am I correct that, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, those photos taken during and before the war by the Japanese military would be PD under PD-Japan-oldphoto? They also have photos taken by the US military in 1947 and 1948 (during the American occupation). Those would be PD-USGov? Cckerberos ( talk) 11:28, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Can I nominate my own created and at first freely licensed images for deletion? Or is it really that strict, like said HERE: "I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project."? -- Kanakukk ( talk) 13:22, 7 February 2013 (UTC).
Would an expert weigh in here please? -- Senra ( talk) 18:25, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I uploaded File:Journal cover of Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging.gif as the cover of a journal, tried to adhere to the journal writing section, and have uploaded several other journal covers without incident. For some reason this one got picked up by ImageBot, and I was asked to tag it. There are tags for magazines, but not journals. In every other journal I have simply noted the image as the cover of the relevant journal, which this one is too, in the journal template, but have not been asked to tag them. Should I tag it {{ Non-free magazine cover}} as there is no
This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of magazine covers
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tag? Thanking you Ybidzian ( talk) 01:19, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
This image looks like a copyright violation. It clearly says the source is Getty Images. — Oz 11:44, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I would like to use a screen shot taken from an 1889 book in the collection of the Library of Congress that has been scanned by an online *.org for free use.
The broader question is whether there is a distinction between public domain membership and use of a particular image.
Maineshepp ( talk) 15:17, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
As a researcher, I purchased copy photographs from collections at several libraries. I may have signed agreements not to reuse, but this was 20-30 years ago. As these are all before 1923, am I allowed to upload into Wikipedia? If so, what steps do I take? Maineshepp ( talk) 15:24, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I am helping a new editor Jonathan Chaplin ( talk · contribs) create a biography of his father, Roy Chaplin, an aircraft designer. Jonathan is in procession of Hawker photographs, some taken by Sydney Camm (1893–1966)), that are all over 50-years-old. It is unclear to me whether any or all of these photographs have been previously published, but I would guess they have. Neither am I familiar with copyright as it applies to Wikipedia, nor the copyright law of the United Kingdom. What copyright license tags, if any, can be applied to these photographs? I will notify Jonathan of this thread via the discussion on my talk-page-- Senra ( talk) 10:55, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
@George Ho: Thank you -- Senra ( talk) 19:54, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
I have just noticed that a pre-existing Wikimedia commons image, File:Hawker Hurricane before maiden flight 1935.jpg, is licensed under {{ PD-UKGov}}. An owner of images not yet uploaded, Jonathan Chaplin ( talk · contribs), says that his "images [are] of both Roy Chaplin and Hawker aircraft" and "the images are all over 50 years old" ( see this thread). Can Jonathan's images of Hawker military aircraft be licensed under {{ PD-UKGov}}? -- Senra ( talk) 19:54, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm very interested in using the coin images from a website, here are their terms of use. Can I and how if so?-- Wehwalt ( talk) 01:30, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I uploaded this new image I made myself (I'm new to uploading images), it's made by me and I'm trying to add this information or else it'll get deleted.
the file is File:East Asia mosaic.jpg PacificWarrior101 ( talk) 17:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)PacificWarrior101
Jeanne Manford has been awarded the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal. It is a posthumous award as she died earlier this year. In this announcement at the whitehouse.gov site there is a nice face photo of her, which I think would be good for the article. Does the fact that it is on the white house site with no credit mean that it is a work of the US government and thus public domain? I don't want to upload a copyvio (obviously) but I don't see how I tell what is and is not copyrighted on a US government site like whitehouse.gov. Thanks. EdChem ( talk) 04:24, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I want to upload photographs portraying the life of my grandfather. He died in 1967 in India. Many pictures have always been in the family collection, having been passed through 2 generations. These pictures were always private and have never been published. The photographer is in all cases unknown, presumably a family friend or visitor. The first picture is of 1914, the last of 1959. I understand that except for the 1914 picture, all the others are not in the Public Domain. But I don't see that anybody else could or will ever claim copyright on these pictures. I am legally the owner of the photos. So - what is there to be done, if the photographer is unknown and highly unlikely to ever become known? Thanks. Example: File:V. A. Sundaram in the late 1930s.jpg Thanjavoor ( talk) 08:35, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Copyright for news channel with literary work — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.108.83.207 ( talk) 03:31, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am currently creating an entry for a musical group and uploaded an image in which I did not disclose the copyright status or the source. I know both the source and the copyright status but do not know how to edit the image description page. Where do I include this information? Will I have to re-upload the image under a different file name?
Thanks!
Benjips ( talk) 06:18, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
I find the tagging of pictures to indicate copyright on Wikipedia quite confusing. Currently I have a private picture which illustrates part of an article. I am happy for anyone to use this free of charge.
What I desperately need is instruction on how to upload and label a picture. I have no idea where the copyright tags go. Help please, with my apology for not undwrstanding what might be obvious to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Purge Watcher ( talk • contribs) 07:59, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Is there any tag for screenshots from television episodes paralell to {{ Non-free film screenshot}}? If not, we should either create one, or change the wording in this template to include episodes; otherwise, files like this one will have a tag which looks inappropriate. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:35, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
assessment in the classroom by Salvia/ Ysseldyke & Bolt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.155.196.123 ( talk) 19:57, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I have explicit permission from the group Lemaitre to use this image for their Wikipedia page I am creating and permission by the author, Johannes Greve Muskat, to use, change, and attribute this to him (Creative Commons License 3.0). I have the message they have sent me for verification if the need to provide it is required. Please let me know what the problem was.
I downloaded it directly from Lemaitre's Facebook page as they themselves linked it to me. I can find it on a different website if that is the problem. Please let me know what I can do to fix this issue and prevent this or any other issue to happen again. Here are the steps I took when uploading the picture:
1. Name 2. Provided Author's name and link to Author's work 3. Provided Source and Source link 4. Provided License Information
Let me know if the above is insufficient to satisfy the copyright criteria.
I'd like to also know how I can get the image from the copyright owner. Suppose the owner has poor knowledge of Wikipedia and cannot upload the picture? How are they to do this? How can I make sure it comes from the copyright owner? I would like to avoid this issue next time I upload a picture.
Thank you so much!
Benjips ( talk) 03:57, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, the photographer Karen Mackenrot has allowed for this file to be used File:darrenentwistle.jpg but it is currently marked for deletion. What are the tags/format needed to indicate its legitimacy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamptonpl ( talk • contribs) 23:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
For the Tampa Bay Tritons logo image, im not to sure what tag to use. Could i please get some help? Thanks. NHCLS ( talk) 07:10, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to replace the en.wiki-uploaded poster at A Stranger Came Home with a high-resolution copy found at this location (large file). (Note that the film was released as The Unholy Four in the US.) There is no copyright on the poster, except for a phrase that stops me in my tracks: "Property of National Screen Service Corp., licensed for display..." on the very bottom right. Is that a form of a copyright notice? According to Creative Clearance, this lobby card is basically free of copyright and I can go ahead and upload it to Commons. I just wanted to double check before doing so. Thanks so much! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 01:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Crisco 1492, thank you for your advice above. If the English poster for this title is still under copyright (is this a URAA thing? I have a difficult time understanding all the rules), then what would be your opinion on these two images of Paulette Godard, #1 and #2? The film was produced by the British Hammer Film Productions, in association with the American company, Lippert Films. So I have no idea what country these photographs were taken in (and I'm only assuming they're even from 1954 because they were labeled as such by the Dr. Macro submitters who scanned them). There's no copyright information on the photographs anywhere... but it sounds like I may be misunderstanding the copyrights for English products here. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 04:22, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm writing a user page about my library for accessing the Wikipedia API. I would like to add screenshots from Microsoft Visual Studio showing how autocompletion works with the library, e.g. [6]. The screenshot is quite simple and I belive most of its elements are not copyrightable. Would it be okay if I uploaded it to Wikipedia or Commons? According to Wikipedia:Software screenshots, it probably wouldn't. Does that also apply to screenshots that are this simple and don't contain pretty much any copyrightable design or text? 20:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello :)
I wanted to let Wikipedia know that the photo of Jeff Buckley is actually a different photo then the source information gives. - Jeff Buckley Current Photo ------ Photo currently in use - Jeff Buckley Source Photo ------ Source Photo
I must tell you that the photo provided with the source is by far a better picture of Jeff Buckley and I highly suggest someone to change the current photo if possible. Some of my friends agreed that he actually looked like he came from prison and that's so horrible for so beautiful man. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fannzi3 ( talk • contribs) 15:32, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I would like to know how to obtain the copyright release and high resolution file for the following image: File: Roch_night.JPG Thank you for your time, Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by Photomike24 ( talk • contribs) 20:24, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Does this image meet the threshold of originality for copyright protection? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 10:40, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Help Me! I want to upload a photo from Taipei EasyCard Corparation website( http://www.easycard.com.tw/english/index.asp) but I saw they have the Copyright@2013 EasyCard Corparation Can I Still Upload It? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anoyomousamerican ( talk • contribs) 12:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
How would you go by copyrighting a picture you got from Google on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pjryb ( talk • contribs) 01:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
If an article on Wikipedia is using an external link as a reference which contains copyrighted images used without authorization from the original copyright holder, can I request Wikipedia to remove the reference from the article? 27.251.75.18 ( talk) 14:47, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
YouTube is listed under WP:ELNEVER as a site that may contain copyright-violating material. However, it also has lectures, debates, etc. from respected academics who meet WP:RS. I am asking this here because on the article John 21 I cited a debate involving respected biblical scholar Bart Ehrman as the source for a piece of information I included in the article. [7] However, does WP:ELNEVER actually ban us from linking to YouTube even as a citation when it meets WP:RS? elvenscout742 ( talk) 05:46, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
In Mark Peel's biography of Anthony Chenevix-Trench (published in the 1990s), one of the illustrations is a photo of Chenevix-Trench taken in India in 1923.
Presumably this 1923 photo was developed, printed, mailed round the world, pasted into someone's scrapbook or whatever in 1923, then, sixty years later, scanned for the book. (What a kerfuffle!)
However, if there's no evidence of it having been published in any other way earlier than the 1990s, do we have to assume for copyright purposes that it's still in copyright? -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 15:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Does signature of a fiction character have copyright?-- Lê talk- contributions 04:45, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm working on fixing a for-profit company's Wikipedia article. I sent the company's PR department an email asking for some photos of their recent products (products that are discussed in the Wikipedia article), and they sent me back some photos I'd like to use. But, searching around the web, I see that a couple of the ones I want to use have already been published elsewhere (obviously, the company sends these photos out to media as part of a press kit). Can I still use the photos? If so, how do I handle copyright? Thank you. MartinMartin226 ( talk) 15:47, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Very helpful. Thank you so much. MartinMartin226 ( talk) 18:57, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I was informed that the photograph on the article I wrote, Justin Jones (American singer-songwriter) has been removed.
Just to clarify, if I get the person who created the file to use the template given on the Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries page and grant us persmission to use the file, will the photograph be put back on the page? Please let me know, thank you. NickV930 ( talk) 17:17, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I was perusing the WayBack Machine archive of the Buffalo Bills website, and I came across some photographs with a disclaimer reading:
"This photograph is the property of the Buffalo Bills. Permission for normal editorial use is here-with granted. Permission for reproduction in quantity or for commercial or advertising use must be obtained in writing from the Buffalo Bills Public Relations Department."
Would a photograph unter that disclaimer be eligible for upload under Wikipedia policies? Buffalutheran ( talk) 20:19, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I processed the first step of a permission statement for File:Mrs. Lyle D. Goodhue testing aerosol spray.jpg, concentrating on the fact that the person filing the request was the legal heir of the photographer.
However after doing do, I realized I wasn't looking at the original photo, but a copy of the photo used in a publication. It seems quite plausible that the publisher of Aerosol Technicomment may have acquired the copyright. I don't think the publication exists and more, but I don't know that that matters. What do others think?-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:38, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I did a search in Google images and found a drawing of a Yankee Doodle Dandy restaurant. I saved it to my computer, but don't know if it's copyrighted and if it can be used on the Yankee Doodle Dandy Restaurant Wikipedia page.
Thanks,
Leonard — Preceding unsigned comment added by ItlnGuy99 ( talk • contribs) 03:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
This picture File:Sagar karnataka.jpg appears to be identical (same reflective dots) to the one on Flickr taken by Ravindra H on 27 February 2011, http://www.flickr.com/photos/14071985@N00/5519004975/, © All Rights Reserved. I'm not sure how this should be addressed. -- Bejnar ( talk) 15:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
I received a message for the following files that the copyright licensing tag was correct but that there is no proof of permission. However permission is granted for use in wikipedia and other educational links over the internet at the bottom of the main page here. How can I show permission is granted for the use of these files?-- Blackknight12 ( talk) 04:16, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
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I was wondering, can we use images that are copyrighted provided we have the permission of the copyright holder? Thanks. Ingdalevri ( talk) 15:29, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Are official US presidential portrait paintings PD-USGov? These are commissioned works but the painters do not in most cases appear to be "employees" of the federal government, so I don't really see how PD-USGov would apply. File:Official White House Portrait of George W. Bush.jpg was recently uploaded, ostensibly as non-free, but with a clearly false FUR, used in at least two articles where non-free use is clearly inappropriate, and with no FUR at all for the one where it just marginally might be. Earlier portraits, such as File:Ghwbush.jpeg and File:Bclinton.jpeg, are on Commons and claimed as PD. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
I barely don't understand NFCC so I'm asking a dumb question here. Can an image of a defunct sports team (ex:
File:PhiladelphiaStarsCapLogo2.png) be used on the team's page (ex:
Philadelphia Stars (baseball)) and a smaller image on a page of a list of teams in that league (ex:
list of Negro league baseball teams)? Rgrds. (Dynamic IP, will change when I log off.) --
64.85.220.19 (
talk)
14:50, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello-
I am a radiologist and I would like to supply images to the Wiki articles on a number of diseases with CT and MRI images. I have removed any identifying information from the images (all text, any meta information) so that they are anonymized. May I post those images?
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kinchip ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Can anybody check if I did it rightly to upload that picture to the article hikikomori? Thank. Kotjap ( talk) 02:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
This may sound like an obvious question but I've never done this before. I have a photo of an actress friend, she gave me to put on her wikipedia page. I'm not sure what type of license it is when a friend just gives you a photo of themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nmarsh2k ( talk • contribs) 08:18, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
It violated my copyright. Fragment taken from here:
I do not object to use. But, without attribution - it is bad. Please paste the link. // Mammadov JM ( talk) 07:36, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. Do not mind. // Mammadov JM ( talk) 10:21, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
When are you people going to get your act together? I create media for an article, tag it as I'm supposed to and a year later someone else comes along and tells me that my own work will be deleted over copyright.
If you don't want people to contribute to Wikipedia just say so, rather than making us try to infer it from your actions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.22.56 ( talk) 13:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I realise that using it in the way it is being used on this site is considered Fair Use regardless of the answer to my question, but I was wondering whether this logo is an actual trademark (seeing as USB was created by a group of unrelated companies) or is copyrighted, and if so, who owns it? The reason I ask is because on the "licencing" part of the page for it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USB_Icon.svg ), it says that it can't be copyrighted because of genericness of the design (although it looks recognisable and individual enough to me to warrant being copyrightable) and is Public Domain, but it goes on to say it is a Trademark... can anyone explain this to me please?
I can't find reference to it at usb.org except in answer to "can I use the High Speed USB logo on our connectors" they've said "you should use the USB Trident logo". They don't even show a picture of that logo on the site alongside all their other logos.
Sorry if this isn't the place to discuss this. Please don't flame-grill me or whatever it is the younguns say. Musophil ( talk) 14:16, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
My edits to Tales of Moonlight and Rain have come under some fire from an IP user who appears to believe that incorporating text translated from Japanese Wikipedia is a copyright violation. I was under the impression that being open about the translation in edit summaries and/or on the talk page was enough to cover the attribution issue, since Japanese Wikipedia is free-to-use the same as English Wikipedia. However, the IP and I appear to have interpreted WP:COPYWITHIN#Translating from other language Wikimedia Projects differently. I understand that by not specifically citing the version and date of the Japanese text I had translated within my edit summary may have been a technical violation, and I apologize for this gaffe.
The issue is slightly complicated by the fact that at the time I produced the translation I could only finish half of it. I placed the other half of the original Japanese text in the form of a WP:COMMENT with the intention of coming back later or leaving it for someone else to finish. Since this is obviously not claiming the work of another as my own, and the text does not appear on the Wikipedia article itself (it's hidden in the code), I really don't see how that could violate copyright.
Finally, if any of the above (not properly formatting my citation of ja.wiki, copy-pasting text in the form of a comment) is in fact a CO violation, I must admit to having previously violated these rules on Nijō family ( [1]), Satō Tadanobu ( [2]), Ochiai Naobumi ( [3]), Izumi Shikibu ( [4]) and probably a few others. I apologize for this, and if what I have done merits some kind of punishment then I humbly ask for leniency in light of my obvious good faith and my prior ignorance of the rules.
elvenscout742 ( talk) 02:38, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
I came across a Japanese government website with a large amount of aerial photography of Japan. They have put copyright notices on the pages/images. Am I correct that, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, those photos taken during and before the war by the Japanese military would be PD under PD-Japan-oldphoto? They also have photos taken by the US military in 1947 and 1948 (during the American occupation). Those would be PD-USGov? Cckerberos ( talk) 11:28, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Can I nominate my own created and at first freely licensed images for deletion? Or is it really that strict, like said HERE: "I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project."? -- Kanakukk ( talk) 13:22, 7 February 2013 (UTC).
Would an expert weigh in here please? -- Senra ( talk) 18:25, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I uploaded File:Journal cover of Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging.gif as the cover of a journal, tried to adhere to the journal writing section, and have uploaded several other journal covers without incident. For some reason this one got picked up by ImageBot, and I was asked to tag it. There are tags for magazines, but not journals. In every other journal I have simply noted the image as the cover of the relevant journal, which this one is too, in the journal template, but have not been asked to tag them. Should I tag it {{ Non-free magazine cover}} as there is no
This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of magazine covers
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tag? Thanking you Ybidzian ( talk) 01:19, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
This image looks like a copyright violation. It clearly says the source is Getty Images. — Oz 11:44, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I would like to use a screen shot taken from an 1889 book in the collection of the Library of Congress that has been scanned by an online *.org for free use.
The broader question is whether there is a distinction between public domain membership and use of a particular image.
Maineshepp ( talk) 15:17, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
As a researcher, I purchased copy photographs from collections at several libraries. I may have signed agreements not to reuse, but this was 20-30 years ago. As these are all before 1923, am I allowed to upload into Wikipedia? If so, what steps do I take? Maineshepp ( talk) 15:24, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I am helping a new editor Jonathan Chaplin ( talk · contribs) create a biography of his father, Roy Chaplin, an aircraft designer. Jonathan is in procession of Hawker photographs, some taken by Sydney Camm (1893–1966)), that are all over 50-years-old. It is unclear to me whether any or all of these photographs have been previously published, but I would guess they have. Neither am I familiar with copyright as it applies to Wikipedia, nor the copyright law of the United Kingdom. What copyright license tags, if any, can be applied to these photographs? I will notify Jonathan of this thread via the discussion on my talk-page-- Senra ( talk) 10:55, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
@George Ho: Thank you -- Senra ( talk) 19:54, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
I have just noticed that a pre-existing Wikimedia commons image, File:Hawker Hurricane before maiden flight 1935.jpg, is licensed under {{ PD-UKGov}}. An owner of images not yet uploaded, Jonathan Chaplin ( talk · contribs), says that his "images [are] of both Roy Chaplin and Hawker aircraft" and "the images are all over 50 years old" ( see this thread). Can Jonathan's images of Hawker military aircraft be licensed under {{ PD-UKGov}}? -- Senra ( talk) 19:54, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm very interested in using the coin images from a website, here are their terms of use. Can I and how if so?-- Wehwalt ( talk) 01:30, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I uploaded this new image I made myself (I'm new to uploading images), it's made by me and I'm trying to add this information or else it'll get deleted.
the file is File:East Asia mosaic.jpg PacificWarrior101 ( talk) 17:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)PacificWarrior101
Jeanne Manford has been awarded the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal. It is a posthumous award as she died earlier this year. In this announcement at the whitehouse.gov site there is a nice face photo of her, which I think would be good for the article. Does the fact that it is on the white house site with no credit mean that it is a work of the US government and thus public domain? I don't want to upload a copyvio (obviously) but I don't see how I tell what is and is not copyrighted on a US government site like whitehouse.gov. Thanks. EdChem ( talk) 04:24, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I want to upload photographs portraying the life of my grandfather. He died in 1967 in India. Many pictures have always been in the family collection, having been passed through 2 generations. These pictures were always private and have never been published. The photographer is in all cases unknown, presumably a family friend or visitor. The first picture is of 1914, the last of 1959. I understand that except for the 1914 picture, all the others are not in the Public Domain. But I don't see that anybody else could or will ever claim copyright on these pictures. I am legally the owner of the photos. So - what is there to be done, if the photographer is unknown and highly unlikely to ever become known? Thanks. Example: File:V. A. Sundaram in the late 1930s.jpg Thanjavoor ( talk) 08:35, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Copyright for news channel with literary work — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.108.83.207 ( talk) 03:31, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am currently creating an entry for a musical group and uploaded an image in which I did not disclose the copyright status or the source. I know both the source and the copyright status but do not know how to edit the image description page. Where do I include this information? Will I have to re-upload the image under a different file name?
Thanks!
Benjips ( talk) 06:18, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
I find the tagging of pictures to indicate copyright on Wikipedia quite confusing. Currently I have a private picture which illustrates part of an article. I am happy for anyone to use this free of charge.
What I desperately need is instruction on how to upload and label a picture. I have no idea where the copyright tags go. Help please, with my apology for not undwrstanding what might be obvious to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Purge Watcher ( talk • contribs) 07:59, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Is there any tag for screenshots from television episodes paralell to {{ Non-free film screenshot}}? If not, we should either create one, or change the wording in this template to include episodes; otherwise, files like this one will have a tag which looks inappropriate. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:35, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
assessment in the classroom by Salvia/ Ysseldyke & Bolt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.155.196.123 ( talk) 19:57, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I have explicit permission from the group Lemaitre to use this image for their Wikipedia page I am creating and permission by the author, Johannes Greve Muskat, to use, change, and attribute this to him (Creative Commons License 3.0). I have the message they have sent me for verification if the need to provide it is required. Please let me know what the problem was.
I downloaded it directly from Lemaitre's Facebook page as they themselves linked it to me. I can find it on a different website if that is the problem. Please let me know what I can do to fix this issue and prevent this or any other issue to happen again. Here are the steps I took when uploading the picture:
1. Name 2. Provided Author's name and link to Author's work 3. Provided Source and Source link 4. Provided License Information
Let me know if the above is insufficient to satisfy the copyright criteria.
I'd like to also know how I can get the image from the copyright owner. Suppose the owner has poor knowledge of Wikipedia and cannot upload the picture? How are they to do this? How can I make sure it comes from the copyright owner? I would like to avoid this issue next time I upload a picture.
Thank you so much!
Benjips ( talk) 03:57, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, the photographer Karen Mackenrot has allowed for this file to be used File:darrenentwistle.jpg but it is currently marked for deletion. What are the tags/format needed to indicate its legitimacy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamptonpl ( talk • contribs) 23:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
For the Tampa Bay Tritons logo image, im not to sure what tag to use. Could i please get some help? Thanks. NHCLS ( talk) 07:10, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to replace the en.wiki-uploaded poster at A Stranger Came Home with a high-resolution copy found at this location (large file). (Note that the film was released as The Unholy Four in the US.) There is no copyright on the poster, except for a phrase that stops me in my tracks: "Property of National Screen Service Corp., licensed for display..." on the very bottom right. Is that a form of a copyright notice? According to Creative Clearance, this lobby card is basically free of copyright and I can go ahead and upload it to Commons. I just wanted to double check before doing so. Thanks so much! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 01:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Crisco 1492, thank you for your advice above. If the English poster for this title is still under copyright (is this a URAA thing? I have a difficult time understanding all the rules), then what would be your opinion on these two images of Paulette Godard, #1 and #2? The film was produced by the British Hammer Film Productions, in association with the American company, Lippert Films. So I have no idea what country these photographs were taken in (and I'm only assuming they're even from 1954 because they were labeled as such by the Dr. Macro submitters who scanned them). There's no copyright information on the photographs anywhere... but it sounds like I may be misunderstanding the copyrights for English products here. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 04:22, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm writing a user page about my library for accessing the Wikipedia API. I would like to add screenshots from Microsoft Visual Studio showing how autocompletion works with the library, e.g. [6]. The screenshot is quite simple and I belive most of its elements are not copyrightable. Would it be okay if I uploaded it to Wikipedia or Commons? According to Wikipedia:Software screenshots, it probably wouldn't. Does that also apply to screenshots that are this simple and don't contain pretty much any copyrightable design or text? 20:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello :)
I wanted to let Wikipedia know that the photo of Jeff Buckley is actually a different photo then the source information gives. - Jeff Buckley Current Photo ------ Photo currently in use - Jeff Buckley Source Photo ------ Source Photo
I must tell you that the photo provided with the source is by far a better picture of Jeff Buckley and I highly suggest someone to change the current photo if possible. Some of my friends agreed that he actually looked like he came from prison and that's so horrible for so beautiful man. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fannzi3 ( talk • contribs) 15:32, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I would like to know how to obtain the copyright release and high resolution file for the following image: File: Roch_night.JPG Thank you for your time, Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by Photomike24 ( talk • contribs) 20:24, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Does this image meet the threshold of originality for copyright protection? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 10:40, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Help Me! I want to upload a photo from Taipei EasyCard Corparation website( http://www.easycard.com.tw/english/index.asp) but I saw they have the Copyright@2013 EasyCard Corparation Can I Still Upload It? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anoyomousamerican ( talk • contribs) 12:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
How would you go by copyrighting a picture you got from Google on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pjryb ( talk • contribs) 01:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
If an article on Wikipedia is using an external link as a reference which contains copyrighted images used without authorization from the original copyright holder, can I request Wikipedia to remove the reference from the article? 27.251.75.18 ( talk) 14:47, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
YouTube is listed under WP:ELNEVER as a site that may contain copyright-violating material. However, it also has lectures, debates, etc. from respected academics who meet WP:RS. I am asking this here because on the article John 21 I cited a debate involving respected biblical scholar Bart Ehrman as the source for a piece of information I included in the article. [7] However, does WP:ELNEVER actually ban us from linking to YouTube even as a citation when it meets WP:RS? elvenscout742 ( talk) 05:46, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
In Mark Peel's biography of Anthony Chenevix-Trench (published in the 1990s), one of the illustrations is a photo of Chenevix-Trench taken in India in 1923.
Presumably this 1923 photo was developed, printed, mailed round the world, pasted into someone's scrapbook or whatever in 1923, then, sixty years later, scanned for the book. (What a kerfuffle!)
However, if there's no evidence of it having been published in any other way earlier than the 1990s, do we have to assume for copyright purposes that it's still in copyright? -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 15:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Does signature of a fiction character have copyright?-- Lê talk- contributions 04:45, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm working on fixing a for-profit company's Wikipedia article. I sent the company's PR department an email asking for some photos of their recent products (products that are discussed in the Wikipedia article), and they sent me back some photos I'd like to use. But, searching around the web, I see that a couple of the ones I want to use have already been published elsewhere (obviously, the company sends these photos out to media as part of a press kit). Can I still use the photos? If so, how do I handle copyright? Thank you. MartinMartin226 ( talk) 15:47, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Very helpful. Thank you so much. MartinMartin226 ( talk) 18:57, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I was informed that the photograph on the article I wrote, Justin Jones (American singer-songwriter) has been removed.
Just to clarify, if I get the person who created the file to use the template given on the Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries page and grant us persmission to use the file, will the photograph be put back on the page? Please let me know, thank you. NickV930 ( talk) 17:17, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I was perusing the WayBack Machine archive of the Buffalo Bills website, and I came across some photographs with a disclaimer reading:
"This photograph is the property of the Buffalo Bills. Permission for normal editorial use is here-with granted. Permission for reproduction in quantity or for commercial or advertising use must be obtained in writing from the Buffalo Bills Public Relations Department."
Would a photograph unter that disclaimer be eligible for upload under Wikipedia policies? Buffalutheran ( talk) 20:19, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I processed the first step of a permission statement for File:Mrs. Lyle D. Goodhue testing aerosol spray.jpg, concentrating on the fact that the person filing the request was the legal heir of the photographer.
However after doing do, I realized I wasn't looking at the original photo, but a copy of the photo used in a publication. It seems quite plausible that the publisher of Aerosol Technicomment may have acquired the copyright. I don't think the publication exists and more, but I don't know that that matters. What do others think?-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:38, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I did a search in Google images and found a drawing of a Yankee Doodle Dandy restaurant. I saved it to my computer, but don't know if it's copyrighted and if it can be used on the Yankee Doodle Dandy Restaurant Wikipedia page.
Thanks,
Leonard — Preceding unsigned comment added by ItlnGuy99 ( talk • contribs) 03:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
This picture File:Sagar karnataka.jpg appears to be identical (same reflective dots) to the one on Flickr taken by Ravindra H on 27 February 2011, http://www.flickr.com/photos/14071985@N00/5519004975/, © All Rights Reserved. I'm not sure how this should be addressed. -- Bejnar ( talk) 15:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
I received a message for the following files that the copyright licensing tag was correct but that there is no proof of permission. However permission is granted for use in wikipedia and other educational links over the internet at the bottom of the main page here. How can I show permission is granted for the use of these files?-- Blackknight12 ( talk) 04:16, 28 February 2013 (UTC)