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- How to add a copyright tag to an existing image
- On the description page of the image (the one whose name starts File:), click Edit this page.
- From the page Wikipedia:Image copyright tags, choose the appropriate tag:
- For work you created yourself, use one of the ones listed under the heading "For image creators".
- For a work downloaded from the internet, please understand that the vast majority of images from the internet are not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. Exceptions include images from flickr that have an acceptable license, images that are in the public domain because of their age or because they were created by the United States federal government, or images used under a claim of fair use. If you do not know what you are doing, please post a link to the image here and ask BEFORE uploading it.
- For an image created by someone else who has licensed their image under the GFDL, an acceptable Creative Commons license, or has released their image into the public domain, this permission must be documented. Please see Requesting copyright permission for more information.
- Type the name of the tag (e.g.; {{GFDL-self}}), not forgetting {{ before and }} after, in the edit box on the image's description page.
- Remove any existing tag complaining that the image has no tag (for example, {{untagged}})
- Hit Save page.
- If you still have questions, go on to "How to ask a question" below.
- How to ask a question
- To ask a new question hit the "Click here to ask your question" link above.
- Please sign your question by typing
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at the end. - Check this page for updates, or request to be notified on your talk page.
- Don't include your email address, for your own privacy. We will respond here and cannot respond by email.
- Note for those replying to posted questions
If a question clearly does not belong on this page, reply to it using the template {{mcq-wrong}} and, if possible, leave a note on the poster's talk page. For copyright issues relevant to Commons where questions arising cannot be answered locally, questions may be directed to Commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright.
Contents
- 1 Deletion of Jose Pereira Coutinho in Portugal 2015.jpg image
- 2 Letter of Invitation Copyright
- 3 Permission from email
- 4 Is this image ok to upload? It keeps getting deleted by your Bots
- 5 Images used to promote work
- 6 File:2015-11-05 1558 Joel Root in Connecticut History Illustrated.png
- 7 Clarification of a tag.
- 8 Corporate-authored works in Canada
- 9 How would I correcly upload?
- 10 Image of All Saints Church, Southampton
- 11 How do I state that derivative images are out of copyright?
Deletion of Jose Pereira Coutinho in Portugal 2015.jpg image
Dear Sir or Madam, the uploading of this image has been a problem that is lasting for quite long for me. I've already sent the permission of the owner to Wikipedia email address according to your instructions. I've asked why you still do not let me upload the file and do not reply me saying the reasons so I can follow and improve. As I've already said before, there is absolutely no problem of using this image and the owner doesn't mind to be used on Wikipedia whatever the reasons are! What can I do more! I'm feeling that I will be left talking alone here! Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gicacoca (talk • contribs) 04:09, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
- Your question was answered at Wikipedia:OTRS noticeboard/Archive 4#José Pereira Coutinho image. If you can't get permission of the photographer, then we can't use the image. If you are in personal contact with José Pereira Coutinho, you might consider photographing him yourself. —teb728 t c 05:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Letter of Invitation Copyright
Hey, I'm working on an article about a scholarship program and would like to add an image to the page. I think it would be nice to have on the page to showcase the timeline and support the Korean government gives to foreign students. I'm a part of the program and was sent this document. I merely edited out my personal information, but I'm not sure what its copyright status would be. Could someone take a look at it and let me know? Thanks.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46293382/Korean%20Graduate%20Scholarship%20Program%20-%20Invitation%20Letter.png — Preceding unsigned comment added by Draconicfire (talk • contribs) 11:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- The copyright in the letter would belong to the program for whom it was written. Also: since the letter was a private communication and not published, it does not constitute a WP:Reliable source. Besides, it appears to me that it would not constitute encyclopedic content, adding no meaningful information to the article.
Permission from email
Hi, I just uploaded a pic and uploader added Template:Permission from license selector. If you don't allow pics for use on Wikipedia only, why is there a drop-down box for it at the WP uploader, what a waste of our time. Here's pic in question. Raquel Baranow (talk) 17:27, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- More a waste of your time for not reading and understanding our policies.--Aspro (talk) 18:54, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)::OTRS [Ticket#2015110310020085] it's people like you that make me want to quit editing here and you didn't answer my question about the drop-down box that says: "The copyright holder gave me permission to use this work only in Wikipedia articles" Raquel Baranow (talk) 19:00, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Calm down dear. Believe it or not, we are here to help. You appear to have made the attempt to get it right but something has gone wrong from your end. Suggest you simply go to Commons:Village pump/Copyright an explain your problem there. Whilst I could quote chapter and verse here – I can appreciate you need a solution. They will be better at explain what was wrong with your OTRS and how to resolve it. If I get the time, I will follow your question there to help resolve this issue.--Aspro (talk) 19:24, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- Aspro meant Commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright. —teb728 t c 05:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Raquel Baranow: I asked about the trick option in the File Upload Wizard here at the Help desk. The reply there gave a sort of an answer to your question about the drop-down box and gave also a reference to a forum to discuss the File Upload Wizard. I hope that helps. —teb728 t c 13:52, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- Calm down dear. Believe it or not, we are here to help. You appear to have made the attempt to get it right but something has gone wrong from your end. Suggest you simply go to Commons:Village pump/Copyright an explain your problem there. Whilst I could quote chapter and verse here – I can appreciate you need a solution. They will be better at explain what was wrong with your OTRS and how to resolve it. If I get the time, I will follow your question there to help resolve this issue.--Aspro (talk) 19:24, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Is this image ok to upload? It keeps getting deleted by your Bots
This image is a self-portrait by the author (Albert Folch, the subject of the picture) and he posted it on the website with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License (which can be changed, he doesn't care). I don't understand why it gets deleted by your bots, so any help will be appreciated.
Why is Wikipedia so difficult on the user? Uploading an image should be very simple. More generally, why do we have to communicate through this awkward interface, in the era of email and messaging systems? I don't even know where and when I will get the response ... Weird ... Thanks anyways! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rogerfpurcell (talk • contribs) 21:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- According to the metadata on that picture, the artist of that picture is one Scott Manthey of a company called Image Photoarts in Kent, Washington. Albert Folch can't license Scott Manthey's work; only Manthey can do so (assuming he was the original photographer). If the photo was taken by Folch, then modified by Manthey, then they would both have to license it. That's the way copyright works.
- Copyright law is not only complex, but varies from country to country and sometimes (in the U.S.A.) even from state to state. It is also one of the most litigious fields known to law. All of us involved in the various Wikipedia Foundation projects must therefore exercise a great deal of care to avoid violating copyright, or facilitating such violations, not least because in the eyes of some would-be litigants we present a big fat target. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:23, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- You have not set up your Wikipedia account so that people can send you an e-mail; so it seems a bit disingenous to complain that we can't communicate by e-mail. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:55, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi again Rogerfpurcell. Please try and understand that we are all volunteers and it sometimes takes a little time for an editor to respond to questions posted on a noticeboard such as this. It makes things easier to follow if you stick to one noticeboard and simply wait until someone responds instead of posting basically the same stuff almost simultaneously on another noticeboards like you did at WP:OTRSN#File: AlbertFolch2.jpg should not be deleted! Please stop tagging it. Also, please try and understand that discussing things on Wikipedia is typically done on noticeboards, talk pages, etc. where all members of the community are free to comment if desired. This is mainly how the community achieves agreement on things related to Wikipedia. Private email conversations may be appropriate for certain things, but generally things related to Wikipedia are best discussed on Wikipedia itself.
- Regarding the "self-portrait" of Albert Folch Folch, what Orange Mike pointed out above is pretty much what I previously tried to explain to you on your user talk page. Unfortunately, it's likely that this image and File:JordiFolchPi.jpg will continue to be deleted as long as OTRS is unable to verify that each has been freely licensed by the respective original copyright holders or that the images are not protected by copyright.
- Finally, there is a free image on Wikimedia Commons File:AlbertFolch.jpg which was also uploaded by you that you can use in Albert Folch Folch if you took the photo yourself and it is really your "own work", but it looks like it comes from here so it may also require permission as well. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:50, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Images used to promote work
If the FU criteria lenient on such images? Why is File:GSLV1.jpg, File:SARAL.jpg, File:Gslv-mkiii-x-14.jpg and File:ISRO-sre02.jpg used in more than a single article, not low res etc? Is this justified? ‑Ugog Nizdast (talk) 16:28, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
- Non-free content policy requires that each use have a rational for that use, and from what I can see, each of these images only have one rational to justify one use. The other uses are failing WP:NFCC#10c, and so should be removed from pages they lack rationals for. That is not to say that rationales could not be created to be used in more than one article, though first glance at the usage, they aren't going to be easily justified (random pictures of rockets taking off to decorate articles about space agencies doesn't cut it here). The image sizes are a tad large but not overly a problem from first glance. --MASEM (t) 16:59, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
- For a start, as non-free image, I've tagged them {{non-free reduce}}. FU is not lenient so to comply each use must have a fully completed WP:FURG and as Masem notes some rationales might be written where they can justify the use but purely as decorative images, when prose can state such equipment exists or there is no mention at all, those uses should be removed. ww2censor (talk) 17:31, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
File:2015-11-05 1558 Joel Root in Connecticut History Illustrated.png
I am quite certain that the image File:2015-11-05 1558 Joel Root in Connecticut History Illustrated.png of Joel Root I used in the article on him should be in the public domain but am having difficulty finding the appropriate tag for it. I tried several different tags, descriptions, and explanations but none seemed to work. Can you guide me to a correct tag? I have temporarily removed the image from the article. Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 16:29, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
- You did not provide an image source which appears to be http://connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/islandora/object/70002%3A5100 where the image is dated 1844, a relatively early daguerreotype. There is no information whether this image was ever published so its copyright would have been 120 years from creation. Obviously this is now in the public domain in the US. Persoanally I would prefer to see the complete daguerreotype image, frame and all, for such a portrait if that is possible, so maybe you should upload the complete image instead of the cropped one. BTW, jpg would be better than png for this image. I've fixed it for you and the proper copyright tag is {{PD-US-unpublished}} but you should really upload it to the commons so other language wikis could use it. ww2censor (talk) 18:27, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Clarification of a tag.
Regarding this tag...I live in the 9th Circuit, so does that mean I can't do uploads covered by this ruling?...or is the location of Wikipedia's computer the deciding factor? (and, PS, is that why Wikipedia moved from California to Virginia?) WQUlrich (talk) 19:41, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Corporate-authored works in Canada
How does Canadian law handle works of corporate authors? {{PD-Canada}} doesn't address the subject directly. File:AlbertaHomesteadMap1918 t11-12 r1-3 map31.png was published by a map-making company, not a single individual; it's not a photo or a work subject to Crown Copyright, so it can't qualify for points #1-4 on the template. I don't know whether we have to assume that it's eligible for point #5 (but perhaps not there yet, so perhaps still under copyright), because it's quite possible that the head of the company, or someone else responsible, could have died after 1965, or whether we consider it point #6 (and therefore PD-Canada) because we don't know which of the company's employees was responsible for producing it. Nyttend (talk) 16:15, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
- It depends if the employee is identifiable or not. It would seem reasonable to apply point 6 of the Wikipedia template (section 6.1 of the Copyright Act). (Corporate authorship of former section 10(2), before its abolition, existed for photographs, but not for maps. Corporate ownership of copyright of section 13(3) can exist for any type of work and its duration follows the general rules.) -- Asclepias (talk) 21:06, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
How would I correcly upload?
How would I correctly upload this image of James Barret found here? Catmando999 Check out his talk page! 00:33, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
And just how do I reach the edit so I can add copyright? Its my work... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guguwich (talk • contribs) 21:23, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
- Can you upload the file? Catmando999 Check out his talk page! 21:44, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Image of All Saints Church, Southampton
This image is taken from the work "England Under Victoria" by William Frederick Rock who died in 1890. Since this is more than 70 years ago, the copyright on his work has now expired according to UK law. Yet the image is tagged with a copyright notice dated 2002 (which I would edit out before uploading to the Commons). Please advise whether that latter copyright claim is legitimate or whether it is safe to proceed with uploading the image. WaggersTALK 09:02, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
- No response within (almost) 24 hours so I'll go ahead. The image became public domain in 1960 (70 years after the author's death) so it makes no sense for someone to be able to claim copyright in 2002 for it. WaggersTALK 08:38, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Please remember replies are made by volunteers whose real life may interfere with quick responses. Claiming copyright over images that are in the public domain is called copyfraud. Many organizations and people do so for several reasons, such as thinking that making a slavish copy gives them a new copyright or they want to discourage people from copying the images, etc. Clearly an 1852 published image, whose author died in 1890, is in the public domain both in the source country, the UK, and the US where the Wikipedia servers are located. However, you should upload it to the commons. ww2censor (talk) 10:32, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
How do I state that derivative images are out of copyright?
I got two messages from user:Kelly on my talk page saying there is an image copyright problem. File:Childrensfriendjuly1903cover.JPG File:Childrensfriendmay1858.JPG
They're my own photos. But the objection is on the grounds that the photos show images and I have not explained the copyright status of these images.
I am advised: It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the original image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
I don't want to have any claim to the copyright, and the images in the magazines cannot seriously be assumed to be still in copyright.
But I have no idea how to sort this out. I'm really sorry as this feels like a stupid question but I just can't work out how to do this; I have tried WP:TAG but it doesn't help unless there's something I'm not seeing. I'm not even sure what the "image description page" is. I'd like to add a tag that says 'these derivative images are out of copyright' but I can't find any tag that expresses that nor can I see where I'd add the tag anyway. But if I don't do anything they will be deleted.
Can someone please guide me in what to do so that these images are not deleted. Thank you. asnac (talk) 19:29, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
- You'll want to add two tags to each. One tag will be {{PD-UK}}, applying to the work you photographed, as it does appear out of copyright for the UK. The second tag to add, if as you say you don't want any copyright, is {{PD-self}}, to release the photograph you took into the PD. What I would do is to have two different section heads to put these separately into, one "Original work" for the PD-UK, and "Photograph of original work" for your PD-self. And then just make sure on the file page to explain what the photographs are of, publication date and country, and why you believe them are out of copyright as to support the PD-UK tag. --MASEM (t) 19:55, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
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- You should add a fully completed {{information}} template for each image adding all the appropriate details. (Click on the link to see how to use the template. ww2censor (talk) 22:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)