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Say RP, I wanted to upload this pic here http://www2.netdoor.com/~campbab/kong/kkfrank.jpg for an article. The pic was published in the Steve Archer book Willis O'Brien Special Effects Genius. The sketches were supplied by Darlyne O'Brien (Willis O'Brien's widow) who has long since passed away. In the book the pic contains no copyright. Is it possible that it can be uploaded?Giantdevilfish (talk) 01:43, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Ha, sorry I missed your question from a year ago. I hope you eventually found an answer to your question elsewhere. —RP88 ^(talk) 06:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

RE: Wrong photo on ASTRA National Museum Complex's page -

Good day,

Thank you for your prompt answer. I've arranged with our photograph, Alexandru Olanescu, to write an e-mail of confirmation for the photo we like to appear at ASTRA National Museum Complex's page. Tomorrow morning he'll write it. I hope everything will be fine,

Eliza Penciu, curator ASTRA Museum, Sibiu, Romania — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elizapenciu (talk • contribs) 13:25, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Are you referring to commons:File:ASTRA_National_Museum_Complex_,_main_entrance_of_the_Open_air_museum,_Sibiu.jpg? I'll assume so, and stick an {{OTRS pending}} tag in that image's licensing description. Make sure Alexandru Olanescu confirms his choice of copyright license, one that is acceptable on Commons. —RP88 ^(talk) 13:33, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Release of Copyright for Thorne Webb Dreyer article

Thank you for your kind response <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#What_do_you_need_me_to_do.3F> and offer to help with sorting out the copyright issues for the article Thorne Webb Dreyer.

I emailed Cindy, the copyright holder and received the following approval by return email. I used your email link to send this message but am copying it here. There are several more images which I would like to use and have received the releases for but I thought, because I am not yet familiar with the Wikipedia protocol, I would start with this as a model. Will this work?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Release of Rights to Photo of Thorne Dreyer
Date: 	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:38:02 -0500
From: 	Cynthia Bloom <cindybloom@mac.com>
To: 	W. M. Hanks <wmhanks@gmail.com>


Hello Mike,

Yes, it is fine for you to use the photo.

Best regards,
Cindy

Cynthia Bloom Collectible Jewelry
P.O. Box 160403
Austin, TX 78716
phone 512-779-7737
fax 512-440-0907
www.cynthiabloom.com

On Oct 24, 2011, at 1:32 PM, W. M. Hanks wrote:

> Dear Cindy,
> 
> I am preparing an article on Wikipedia for Thorne Webb Dreyer
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_Webb_Dreyer> and would like to use the photo you took
> at the "Ragapalooza". I have cropped and retouched the image but the basic photograph is
> one you took. It is attached for reference.
> 
> If this is OK with you, please fill in, sign and return the release form to me at this
> email address: wmhanks@gmail.com.
> 
> Thanks, Mike
> 
> ******************************
> 
> Release Form:
> 
> Dear Ms. Bloom: I am one of the many volunteer editors of Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), a
> Web-based collaboration.
> 
> I respectfully request your permission to use your photograph, attached, as Wikipedia
> content. Wikipedia is a multilingual open-content encyclopedia that strives for complete
> and reliable content. Volunteers from around the world collaboratively create content, but
> Wikipedia depends upon photography, such as yours, to clearly illustrate that content.
> 
> However, for Wikipedia to use your material, you must agree to the Creative Commons
> Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (often referred to as CC-BY-SA). In essence,
> CC-BY-SA allows you to retain the copyright and authorship of your work, but grants
> permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially
> use them commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or
> try to prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., "share-alike"). You can
> read the complete license at
> "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.
> 0_Unported_License".
> 
> If you grant permission for use, we will credit you for your work, and state that it is
> used with your permission.
> 
> I sincerely appreciate your consideration of this matter. Please advise me of your
> decision by email, and I will forward it to the Wikimedia Foundation.
> 
> Thank you, and I hope you will consider accepting this request. If so, please aknowledge
> by signing here:
> 
> I agree to the above terms and conditions, my typed name along with this returned message 
> from my email account constitutes acceptance. Signed: Cindy Bloom
> 
> Sincerely, William Michael Hanks
> 
> *******************************
> 
> -- William Michael Hanks Communications Consultant
> 
> <thorne_dreyer.jpg>  <small><span class="autosigned">

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmhanks (talk • contribs) 20:20, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

That e-mail exchange is probably OK, although I when I've done this in the past I made sure that I got an explicit note from the third party agreeing to license their photo under a particular free license. If you think what you have got is sufficient, you should forward the permission e-mails for your uploads to English Wikipedia to to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" (it is a volunteer response team address). Make sure to include in your e-mail forward both the original request and confirmation answer and the Wikipedia link for the image as the OTRS team will need to be able to find your uploaded image to verify the materials. It is also important that add {{OTRS pending}} to the image description page. This will let an editors know that you've sent in permission for the image (hopefully preventing deletion!) and will let editors with access to OTRS find the permission e-mail and update the image description appropriately. —RP88 ^(talk) 23:51, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

RE: Wrong photo on ASTRA National Museum Complex's page -

Dear Sir,

I've finally managed to solve the problem we had with our photo. Mr. Olanescu, our photographer, has just sent an e-mail with his agreement on permissions-commons@wikimedia.org for the File:ASTRA National Museum Complex, main entrance of the Open air museum, Sibiu.jpg under the link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASTRA_National_Museum_Complex_,_main_entrance_of_the_Open_air_museum,_Sibiu.jpg

I hope everything is well.

Have a good week,

Eliza Penciu Curator - ASTRA Museum, Sibiu, Romania www.muzeulastra.ro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elizapenciu (talk • contribs) 08:22, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm glad to hear that you've straightened out your issues with commons:File:ASTRA_National_Museum_Complex_,_main_entrance_of_the_Open_air_museum,_Sibiu.jpg. A few days ago I had already put a {{OTRS pending}} tag in that image's licensing description, indicating that permission would be forthcoming. Assuming Alexandru Olanescu's e-mail referenced the URL of that image and confirmed that he agreed with the license that you attached to that image (i.e. the Free Art License), everything should be OK. I've taken the liberty of editing the ASTRA National Museum Complex page to show the main entrance of ASTRA open air museum as the primary thumbnail and moved the photo of the ASTRA palace to the history section. I also slightly edited the description of commons:File:ASTRA_National_Museum_Complex_,_main_entrance_of_the_Open_air_museum,_Sibiu.jpg on Commons. —RP88 ^(talk) 09:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and by all means, please feel free to make any of your own edits to the ASTRA National Museum Complex page or the description of the photo you uploaded. I'm sure you're in a better position to make accurate edits than I am. —RP88 ^(talk) 09:10, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much...

...for your help with the photo of ASTRA Museum (as we can find it under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTRA_National_Museum_Complex) I promise that I'll be back...I'm not really joking right now. :) I'll try to improve and complete the official page of ASTRA National Museum Complex for all our museums. But this takes a little time.

Until than, have a pleasant & fulfilled week. Greetings from Sibiu,

Eliza Penciu, Curator, ASTRA Museum www.muzeulastra.ro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elizapenciu (talk • contribs) 10:00, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm glad to have been of assistance. By the way, it's a minor issue, but it is Wikipedia convention to include a Wikipedia signature/timestamp on posts to user talk pages, article talk pages, and other discussion pages. The easiest way to do this is to simply type four tildes (~) at the end of your comments, like this: ~~~~. Up to now one of WP's automated "robots" has been following you around signing your comments for you (that is the source of the "Preceding unsigned comment added by" stuff at the end of your comments). —RP88 ^(talk) 10:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

File:Podcast icon1.jpg

Thanks for your response re: my copyright question the other day! Will add that notation to the file I uploaded. Regards, Nessalkr (talk) 19:01, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome, happy to have been of assistance. Since you'll be using the pre-existing copy File:Podcastlogo.jpg already on Commons, and you've tagged your own copy for deletion, I suspect your image will be deleted shortly (in fact, on preview, I see that it already has been). Best of luck with your editing. —RP88 ^(talk) 09:31, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Great job

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		Awarded for great work at WP:IMAGEHELP and in particular researching the (C) status of an important cartoon for Timeline of modern American conservatism – Lionel (talk) 10:44, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Lionel, I appreciate the attaboy! —RP88 ^(talk) 11:03, 4 November 2011 (UTC)