Wikipedia:Media copyright questions/Archive/Archive 2

Pete Sorenson

I'm having a problem with an image I loaded. It's been tagged as a copyright violation. The first link I had was to the candidates site, but the same picture is on a state website. After changing it, the person who put the tag on there changed it from an image problem to a copyright problem.

Now, I'm just not even sure what to do. I've wasted some time trying to fix it, but can't figure out what the hell I need to do. Anyway, if someone could take a look and give me a non-cryptic answer I'd appreciate it. Davidpdx 12:15, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Sure, sorry about any frustration you might have had. The problem is the image isn't obviously free to use on wikipedia. While it is now sourced, the source page says "Copyright © Lane County, Oregon. All rights reserved." which implies that they are retaining full copyright. I have tagged the image with a fair use tag, please read the text of the tag, it's a pretty good explanation of what we can do with fair use images. Ideally we would have only freely licensed images, and if one is available you should replace this image with the free one. Fair use images can't be used in some other language wikipedia's for example, and can only be used in English articles according to the fair use criteria. If you have any other questions let us know. - cohesion^t 18:49, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Designers portrait... and work

I have uploaded an image of bruno munari and other designers portraits and their work as industrial designers... i mean objects designed by them... I am not sure about the legality of the images showed in the Compasso d'Oro article... except the logo of the Compasso d'oro prize wich i asume of fair use.... logo.Juan Scott 17:01, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

You can take a look at the image copyright tag page and see if any of those apply, they seem to be copyrighted images though, so I'm not completely sure we will be able to use them. - cohesion^t 08:29, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

The objects belong to the Art work tag ? ... or the promotional? How can I be sure if are copyrighted or not ?Juan Scott 02:26, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

{{art}} is probably not appropriate, if you think the {{promotional}} tag describes the images that one might be ok. Copyright attaches to creative works when they are created, there is no action required to "copyright" something, so the images are copyrighted. Still, the promotional tag is a fair use tag, and may be ok. It would be better if some wikipedian could take a picture of these objects, but I don't know much about them so that might be impossible. If it is impossible then the fair use claim would be stronger. - cohesion^t 18:56, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Magazine Page Scan Used to Depict Article's Subject: Image:EGM_SushiX.jpg

Hi, I recently created an article on a prominent character in the video game magazine field, Sushi-X, and added a scan of his picture to the article. I wasn't sure how to tag the image since I'm new, and I didn't know of this page (otherwise I would've inquired about this earlier -- sorry), so I left it untagged. Orphanbot came through, noticed its lack ambiguous licensing and notified me. I'm wondering if this image can be used on wikipedia under Fair Use (I just gave it the newspaper tag since that seemed appropriate -- 100x100px scan from one page of a magazine from 1998) and how it should be tagged. Thank you :).--Mystical Ninja 14:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

The current tag looks good, and it seems to fall under fair use so everything looks great :) Thanks for helping out. - cohesion^t 17:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Unknown author of a 90 years old Portuguese photo

What should be the a appropriate tag for such a photo? The question concerns this image: File:Pessoa-Orpheu.jpg Velho 16:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I would say {{HistoricPhoto}} <font color="green">A</font>dmrb♉ltz <small>(T | C | k)</small> 03:47, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Velho 18:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Images :Img_2585.jpg, blkwmtignon.jpg, and Headdress.gif

I don't know what the copyright could be on all of these. I really don't. I would hate for you to delete all of them from my Wiki discussions on the tignon and placage.

They are mostly paintings from state museums and collections; there is one real life photograph from a lecture at the New Orleans Public Library. I don't know how to get in touch with Madame Trevigne, who gave the lecture, because she may be one of the Katrina diaspora.

What would satisfy these questions of legality? Knowing the webpage? On a couple of them, I have shown where I got them from.

gab 14:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

The two photographs of paintings are almost certainly OK. Look at the descriptions in Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#Public_domain_art and see if any of them apply. The photograph from the lecture is almost certainly copyrighted by the library. Unless you can get a statement from the library that they are willing to allow anyone to use the image (it's not enough just to get permission for Wikipedia), then the image will have to come down. If you want to try and get permission from the library, see Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission for a form letter to use. Hope that helps. SteinbDJ 15:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Images

Where can I make the images copyrighted so I won't keep on getting messages that say it will be deleted? —This unsigned comment was added by Oth is luv (talk • contribs) .

Go to Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags and pick the template that best described the copyright status of the image. Then add that template to the image page. That should take care of it. If you have questions about what template to use, just ask here. SteinbDJ 22:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)