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== GPL issues == |
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Please see [[commons:Template talk:GPL]] for potential issues with GPL tagging on both projects. [[User:Superm401|Superm401]] - [[User_talk:Superm401|Talk]] 07: |
Please see [[commons:Template talk:GPL]] for potential issues with GPL tagging on both projects. [[User:Superm401|Superm401]] - [[User_talk:Superm401|Talk]] 07:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC) |
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CC 3.0
With Commons honoring 3.0, should we do so as well? Ral315 » 05:54, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
- Is this a rhetorical question? I don't see how it would make sense for us to have a stricter copyright policy than commons. nadav (talk) 06:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
On an unrelated note, would it be a good idea to create country-specific Creative Commons tags for Wikipedia? If I use any CC 3.0 licenses, I will not use the unported license, but I will consider using the United States version of the licenses. Jesse Viviano 17:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
- They'll probably be created as needed. However, you can avoid the issue entirely by uploading to the Wikimedia Commons, which already has commons:Template:cc-by-sa-3.0-us. —Remember the dot (talk) 03:08, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Disputing an image's tag
How would one go about disputing an tag used on a image (aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Safri_Duo.jpg ) when its very visible that its wrong? Peachey88 11:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
- If it's blatently wrong, I either strike it out and replace it with {{nld}}, or delete the image outright if it's clear the uploader is trying to do an end-run around the image use policy. --Carnildo 19:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Media vs Image
We need video and audio just as much as images. We should make sure to generalize the word "image" into "media" or something similar wherever possible to make people aware of this. — Omegatron 17:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
What copyright tag should I use for Image:Cornel west lg.jpg? Jelly Beanie
- Hi, Jelly Beanie. A better place for that question would be Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. However, since you've asked here, I'll take a shot at answering. (And by the way, please use heading sections — I've added one for you — please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end, and please link your images by using two square brackets at either side, and a colon before the word image, like this: [[:Image:Cornel west lg.jpg]].)
- To answer your question, I'm afraid it's unlikely that we can use that image, as it seems to be an image of a living person. We don't accept non-free images of living people, except in the most unusual cases, as they are considered to be "replaceable". In other words, it's not unreasonable to think that some Wikipedian could go along to one of his lectures and take a photo and release it under a free license. Alternatively, it might be possible to persuade him to release a photo under a free license, allowing redistribution, modification, and commercial use (we don't recognise "permission for Wikipedia").
- See Resolution:Licensing policy, especially no. 3, where it says that we may not use non-free material "where we can reasonably expect someone to upload a freely licensed file for the same purpose, such as is the case for almost all portraits of living notable individuals". See also Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria, where no. 1 says "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose."
- I think I just dove in the deep end here. :) I just figured out the ~ ~ ~ ~ thing. Maybe I should wait a little before adding images. I mustn't forget my brackets! :) Jelly Beanie
Friendly Hostility
I've gotten permission to use images from K. Sandra Fuhr's comic Friendly Hostility on its wikipedia page - is there any possiblity of creating a tag I could use to tag all these? Roscelese 00:41, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
- Unfortunately you need to ask for a bit more than permission to use the images in Wikipedia. You need to ask to make the images freely licensed so other people can use them too. GFDL is the main free license here, though images often use Creative Commons licences CC-BY and CC-BY-SA. The reason for this is that Wikipedia allows other people to use its content, so other people have to be able to use the images. User:Videmus Omnia/Requesting free content discusses this. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 22:03, 4 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garion96 (talk • contribs)
TfD nomination of Template:PD-art-life-50-aus
Template:PD-art-life-50-aus has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Iamunknown 16:08, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
WMF Image
Images created by the Wikimedia Foundation, such as occur in Jimbo's new video, are not logos, but probably have similar usability as {{Non-free Wikimedia logo}}. Any idea how to tag Wikimedia content that are not logos or screenshots of our projects? Dragons flight 07:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Conflict?
The link for australian government work tag says: "For works published by the Australian government or held under Crown Copyright in Australia more than 50 years ago." (Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/All)
But the tag itself says:
So which is it?
work published by the Australian government AND 50 years old or
work published by the Australian government OR 50 years old???
big difference.
(the reference link at the end of the tag is broken, for the record.) --Viva43 03:11, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
- This is a working copy of the link through the internet archive.Dr.K. 04:13, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
PD or...?
I've found a good image published in a book from 1898, and I would like to use it here. Unfortunately, it has a Google watermark in the corner. What could I do to bring it here? --Merovingian (T, C, E) 03:58, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
- If the book is in the public domain, you can simply remove the watermark (using GIMP, Kexi, Photoshop, whatever you like best) and upload it. Shinobu (talk) 11:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Battlefield 2 screenshot
Can someone add the following copyright tag:
to the image: AIL_raider.pngin the Battlefield 2 talk page before the 23rd of November 2007? would be appreciated. Thanx.
--Hornet94 15:01, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
how can i tell the kind of liscence i need to copy an image. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank polizzi (talk • contribs) 17:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
What is a tag
what is are templates and tags and how do i use them. If someone has copyright how can i use that image on wikipedia and how can i tell if something has copyright. Frank polizzi (talk) 17:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Help needed with ProFantasy license
Apparently none of the existing Wikipedia image copyright tags apply to the Image:Cc etrusca.gif image, even though the ProFantasy Software license clearly allows distribution even for commercial purposes. Do I need to create a new template? If so, could somebody suggest the proper language? (C.f. Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images/2007_November_19#Image:Cc_etrusca.gif.) Thank you.—RJH (talk) 17:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
How about the following?—RJH
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This image of a map created in the CC3 format of ProFantasy, Inc.:
Thus it satisfies the conditions of the ProFantasy software license that allows free distribution for commercial gain. |
GPL issues
Please see commons:Template talk:GPL for potential issues with GPL tagging on both projects. Superm401 - Talk 07:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC)