User talk:Eddhurt

I'm confused about the copyright status of your recently added picture of Alex Chilton. Did you get permission from Bar/None to repost this under GFDL? Or are you Bar/None? or what? -- Jmabel 22:08, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)

So now I'm even more confused. You deleted it from the article, but on the imag page itself (image:Alex chilton 1990s. jpg, you did nothing to clarify its status... -- Jmabel 01:11, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)

The email address from which you wrote me doesn't seem to accept my response, so I am replying here again.

Generally, there isn't any "fair use" on a posed portrait like this. I have no idea whether Bar/None and the unnamed sales site received appropriate permission to use the photo, but their posting it does not change its status. Wikipedia tries to be scrupulous about copyright. Some things are clearly OK: by longstanding tradition, a small image of a book jacket or album cover is fair use. However, a portrait like this is generally off limits unless we can get explicit rights (or if it's old enough to be out of copyright, which any portrait of Alex Chilton clearly is not).

Bar/None may have legitimate rights to the photo and may be happy we are using it; it would be perfectly appropriate to ask them for permission. And they should understand the nature of GFDL and what they are giving permission for.

If no such permission has been obtained, though, the presence of the GDFL boilerplate to the image page seems totally out of line.

You might want to look into the sort of copyright issues that routinely arise on Wikipedia. At any given time, there are typically hundreds of articles and images that are in the process of being removed as probable copyright violations. See especially Wikipedia:Copyvio. -- Jmabel 05:52, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Marshall crenshaw.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Marshall crenshaw.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Infrogmation (talk) 20:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC) Likewise, Image:Big star 72. jpg, Image:Alex chilton 1990s. jpg, Image:Rice miller 1963.jpeg, Image:Leftbanke.jpg -- Infrogmation (talk) 20:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Chris kenner.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Chris kenner.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 05:40, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]