User talk:Cargill208

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--Túrelio (talk) 08:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

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Cargill208, you have to prove that this is a free magazine and that you (or everybody else) has the permission by the copyright owner to upload the cover under a free license to Commons.Túrelio (talk) 21:18, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: f*INK is a free magazine

You can see in the image the cover of the magazine has the word 'Free' on it, but should this be independently verified? Does Wikipedia need an email from the Dunedin City Council? Or the National Library of New Zealand? I really need assistance with this, a mentor perhaps. f*INK was a free weekly guide for 12 years in Dunedin New Zealand supporting the arts and music, comics, sustainability and more. It does need to be documented so it is not lost in history. :Cargill208 (talk) 22:26, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Could you at least provide some online proof that it is/was free? The current website of the "f*INK Dunedin's Weekly Entertainment Guide" carries a note: "All images and content copyright 2008 f*INK Entertainment Guide." For your understanding: the fact that something is given out free, does not at all mean that it is free of copyright; both are totally unrelated.--Túrelio (talk) 08:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

True. The references at f*INK from Lonely Planet and Rough Guide both note that the guide is free, ie, it doesn't cost to get a copy, it's freely distributed and so on. The content is also free, part from the advertising - this belongs to the advertisers. The Image I am uploading here I wish to make in the public domain, usable by anyone. I have sent an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org requesting that it be in the public domain. Have I gone about this the right way? :Cargill208 (talk) 00:30, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

requesting that it be in the public domain - if you are the rights holder, that's the right way; if you are not, that doesn't help. We'll see.--Túrelio (talk) 06:39, 22 March 2009 (UTC)