User talk:Smiller987

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Your pictures : thank you, but there's a problem ...

Hello! Thank you very much indeed for uploading pictures to Wikipedia. I see that you have released them with the restriction "[o]nly non-commercial or educational use of this file is permitted". Wikipedia cannot accept images with this restriction. If you are willing to release the pictures under a different license - and you shouldn't feel obliged to do so, they are your pictures! - then you can change the license to be {{GFDL-self}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (other Creative Commons attribution licenses are acceptable so long as they allow commercial use and derivatives), or use {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. If this is unclear (and it very probably is, for which I apologise), please leave a message here. I'll check back later. Very best regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:10, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, I want them released for reference purposes constrained to Wikipedia, and, as stated, general educational and non-commercial use. I do not want them used commercially without first getting my explicit permission. How do I specifically achieve that? Do you really need a new license other than the myriad licenses that are out there? Smiller987 (talk) 11:21, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

None of the licenses we can accept here will do what you want. The worst thing you could do to try and meet your requirements would be to release the images into the public domain. Then anyone can do anything with them and you have no control at all. So don't do that.

That really only leaves a choice between the GFDL and Creative Commons licenses. Both require that you be credited for any reuse of your pictures. Neither of them constrain what people can do with them, so that there would be no "general educational and non-commercial" limitation. You can see a list of all of the Creative Commons versions here, but Wikipedia cannot accept images under the versions that say "no derivatives" or "non commercial". In terms of your rights, the remaining two Creative Commons licenses (attribution and attribution-share alike) are fairly similar similar, as is the GFDL. Simplified, they say that you have to be credited as the photographer and that your moral rights as the author cannot be infringed. These moral rights would, in theory, give you some control over how the image is used, but only in places that recognise the concept of moral rights in copyright. The share alike version and the GFDL add the requirement that any image which someone creates by modifying your picture has to be released under the same conditions as the original one. None of these prevent someone from using the image for a non-educational purpose, or for charging for a book or CD that includes your pictures, or require that they ask you before re-using the pictures. I hope this makes sense, Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:53, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Apparently, my only real choice is the CC license. Why isn't this transparently presented up front while uploading the images?

You shouldn't feel under any pressure to agree to a license that you don't want to. As to why this is not made clear, that is a very good question indeed. If I look at the default upload form, it seems fairly clear to me although I am probably a very poor judge of this. The only think that occurs to me is that the label on the "Other" button there may be the problem. Was that what you used? Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:20, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I see that some of your pictures have been deleted. If you do decide that you are happy with the Creative Commons license there is no need to go to the trouble of uploading them again as it is much easier for me to undo the deletion. Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Banat Cemetary 1.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Banat Cemetary 1.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Skier Dude (talk) 08:06, 19 December 2009 (UTC)