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Contents
- 1 File:Regina-belle-baby-come-to-me-columbia.jpg
- 2 Not a media copyright question, but wanting to get knowledgeable folks to comment....
- 3 Why
- 4 British university logos
- 5 Accidentally uploaded an image I was trying to use in my teahouse profile!
- 6 Uploaded one of my own photos
- 7 i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..?
- 8 Icons for the Disinfectant antivirus software
File:Regina-belle-baby-come-to-me-columbia.jpg
Is the image copyrightable? --George Ho (talk) 18:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
- That's a good question. The label itself seems to be too simple for copyright and since the photograph itself is basically just a scan I wouldn't think that there is much original work in it either. I'd be interested in other editors' opinions though. De728631 (talk) 17:33, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
Not a media copyright question, but wanting to get knowledgeable folks to comment....
Please have a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Works_that_are_PD_in_US_but_not_in_country_of_origin. Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:22, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Why
Hello everyone, Yesterday i have write an article about my group of volunteers in Albania with name Bring life to the city and someone of you have deleted my article for copyright of this page in facebook which is mine https://www.facebook.com/Bring-Life-to-the-City-BLC-1626951060893237/info/?tab=page_info. Please i want an answer.This is my group and dosn't have any illegal thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enea23 (talk • contribs) 9:20, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- We have a policy here that whenever you add text or images that you have published before, you need to confirm your authorship and copyright by sending an email to the local volunteer team of Wikipedians. This is because anyone could make such claims, and on the other hand we need to know the licence that you would like to grant for this text at Wikipedia.
- That said, this is the English language Wikipedia where all content shall be written in English. Please note that there is also an Albanian Wikipedia where you can write articles in Albanian like you did here. At the Albanian version of Wikipedia you should first look for a page that explains where to send your email of consent for donating your text to Wikipedia. And please note also that all subjects need to be notable enough to have an encyclopedic article. Since it is your own group you also have a conflict of interest which is also problematic. All in all, it would be best if you waited for someone else to write an article about your group. De728631 (talk) 17:29, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
British university logos
I recently checked some logos of British universities, and we're rather inconsistent there regarding copyright. For example,
- File:University of Cambridge coat of arms official.svg is claimed to be in the public domain whereas
- File:University of Cambridge logo.svg is claimed to be non-free.
Since the latter is the former plus some text, both cannot be true. Since the coat of arms likely is centuries old, I would guess the public domain claim is the correct one. Similarly:
- File:University of Oxford.svg is claimed to be non-free, File:Oxford University Coat Of Arms.svg is claimed to be PD. These differ more than for Cambridge, but I still doubt the modern logo is copyrightable.
- File:University of St Andrews coat of arms.svg is claimed to be non-free but should also be centuries old, unless they designed an entirely new coat of arms in the 20th or 21st century.
- File:Uni shield for wikipedia.png and File:New Glasgow Crest.png both are claimed to be non-free,
- File:University of Edinburgh logo.png and File:University of Edinburgh logo.svg (which differs from the first one and likely should be renamed) are both claimed to be non-free.
Could someone more familiar with British copyright law and its application to heraldry please take a look and check what's correct here? Huon (talk) 21:00, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- Going by originality I suspect all of them are copyrightable in the US. Medieval coats of arm are PD by virtue of age so if any of these is a medieval heraldric it would be public domain - I don't think that even the UK has copyrights on medieval works. Also, given commons:COM:COA one has to wonder whether these are user-made interpretations of a coat of arms, which is subtly different from a regular logo.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- Most examples above are clearly renderings / interpretations created recently. As such, they would be under copyright of the graphic artists or their employers. There may be a few exceptions, such as File:New Glasgow Crest.png, which looks like it could be a reproduction of an old rendering from an old document, but the file has no contextual source or information, so precaution requires to consider it non-free, unless evidence is provided that it is free. By contrast, File:Uni shield for wikipedia.png is clearly a recent drawing, not a mere scan of an old one. -- Asclepias (talk) 22:36, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- So what's the opinion on Cambridge? Does the Coat of Arms on the Commons need to be tagged for deletion, or is the one on Wikipedia itself PD? I don't think "neither" is a valid option. Huon (talk) 22:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- The Commons file should be deleted. Actually, it was nominated for deletion there. The reason for deletion is well explained in the comments by users Stefan4 and Kathisma. The problem is that the closing admin closed it as kept. This particular decision is contrary to the policy and to the usual decisions in similar cases, but when that happens users may hesitate to renominate the file and the copyvio remains. You can see also Commons:Coats of arms for details. -- Asclepias (talk) 00:05, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
- So what's the opinion on Cambridge? Does the Coat of Arms on the Commons need to be tagged for deletion, or is the one on Wikipedia itself PD? I don't think "neither" is a valid option. Huon (talk) 22:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
Accidentally uploaded an image I was trying to use in my teahouse profile!
Please delete the image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:File-Acapulco_sunset_summer.jpg
I was trying to select an image for my teahouse profile on Wikipedia commons and somehow I uploaded the image! Please delete it- I'm perfectly OK with it! I guess it's a newbie mistake! I love Wikipedia and editing articles! I will stay away from media, for now :) Thanks, Zara (CRFZara) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CRFZara (talk • contribs) 08:08, 5 April 2016 (UTC+9)
- Hi CRFZara. I've tagged the file with {{db-f8}} per WP:F8 since the same file exists on Wikimedia Commons. For furture reference, you do not need to re-upload any files you find on Wikimedia Commons locally to English Wikipedia. All you need to do is add the file's markup to the article, etc. where you want to use it. You can find out more about this at Help:Files. In addition, if you mistakenly upload something similar in the future, you can tag it for speedy deletion yourself if it meets the conditions listed in WP:F8. Finally, please try to remember to always sign any posts you make to talk pages or noticeboards such as this. There are a number of ways to do this, but the most common is 4 tilde. Signing not only lets other editors know who made the post, but also when it was made. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:04, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Uploaded one of my own photos
How do I upload one of my own photos? It does not have a copyright.
Thanks! Beezing (talk) 00:15, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
- Any image you take has a copyright and you own it. You can decide to licence the image under a number of different restrictive or non-restrictive licences but we only accept non-restrictives ones such as {{cc-by-2.0}} or {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} or higher, i.e., 3.0 or 4.0 or {{attribution}}. The Creative Commons tags are most commonly used and are recommended but you can see most of the free licences at WP:TAGS/FL and the ones on the commons are at c:COM:TAGS and some are slightly different and theirs is a very long list. It is best you upload such images to the commons where others can use them for other language projects not just the enwiki. ww2censor (talk) 10:08, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..?
i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Organist00 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- Can you link to it? Also I assume "free" as in free - some people think it means "freely available".Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:13, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Icons for the Disinfectant antivirus software
For the Disinfectant software, there is a color icon and a B&W icon. Would either of these two icons be below the threshold of originality for the US? --Elegie (talk) 04:34, 9 April 2016 (UTC)