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Tip: Categorizing images[edit]

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Hello, Hchc2009!
Tip: Add categories to your files
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Notification[edit]

Added, 10 October 2011


File:Memorial library Los Angeles High School.jpg[edit]

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A file that you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from Flickr, File:Memorial library Los Angeles High School.jpg, was found available on Flickr by an administrator or reviewer under the license Noncommercial (NC), No derivative works (ND), or All Rights Reserved (Copyright), which isn't compatible with Wikimedia Commons, per the licensing policy. The file has been deleted. Commons:Flickr files/Appeal for license change has information about sending the Flickr user an appeal asking for the license to be changed. Only Flickr images tagged as BY (CC BY), BY SA (CC BY-SA), CC0 (CC0) and PDM (PDM) are allowed on Wikimedia Commons. If the Flickr user has changed the license of the Flickr image, feel free to ask an administrator to restore the file, or start an undeletion request.

Lymantria (talk) 18:41, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

W.A. Call[edit]

Hello, I'm just a volunteer so I don't really know a lot about the copyright so my apologies if I did something wrong but I'll definitely ask Andrew, the Curator at the museum if he has permission from his estate when I see him next. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. 188.39.46.34 10:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Moscow City Brotherly Cemetery 1915.jpg[edit]

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Grandiose (talk) 20:54, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers - will take a look, Hchc2009 (talk) 07:39, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Vaux[edit]

Hey. Update: there is no update. I got caught up in schoolwork and have not sent the email. Am doing so now. Best, The Interior (talk) 05:11, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem - education should always come first! Hchc2009 (talk) 07:40, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Aerial archaeology images[edit]

Hi Hchc2009

Thanks for the kind comments. When we posted images on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lothian_Archaeological_Trust one of the editors removed all but one. So your appreciation is welcomed.

We sometimes come down to Gloucestershire: http://www.armadale.org.uk/archeoscan.htm where we lived for 29 years. We have a local website: http://www.paganhill.org.uk/ down there.

john(at)WLATrust.org.uk

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Autopatrol given[edit]

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. INeverCry 22:34, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers - much appreciated! Hchc2009 (talk) 17:05, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there[edit]

I've just responded to your last comment at the del req. Regards, :-) Küñall (talk) 01:17, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers - should be all resolved now I think. Hchc2009 (talk) 20:12, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted file: File:Westgate Towers Museum 1908.jpg[edit]

I would like to review the decision here, please: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Westgate Towers Museum 1908.jpg. Sorry I didn't spot your comment of 29 December 2013, so was not able to respond to it.

I had already searched the internet and various websites for photographs of the Westgate Towers and its (now defunct) museum many times during the past few years. I have also visited Canterbury local history libraries, including the national archive located at Canterbury Cathedral cloister. In those libraries and the archive I have seen plenty of archive collections of postcards and books of postcards, but none even remotely similar to that one. It is a precious historical resource, and now that it is deleted, there is no other way for any of us (not even me) to see it again.

Sorry I didn't realise that I was supposed to post that information about searching for the author. I already knew that the information is not out there. Now it is too late to tell you? As far as I am aware, that photograph is unique and in no other record or reproduction. I donated it to a local museum (I forget which one, now), as I was working with all the museums when they were under threat of closure at the time of uploading that image. The owner of Westgate towers, who was going to revive some sort of numismatic museum in there, has died, and the towers are now closed indefinitely - very sad for the city. Also, I made a calculation error - that 1908 postcard is of course 105 years old, not 95 years old. The identity of the photographer cannot be found. I cannot see how the postcard cannot be out of copyright.

It is important to retain that photograph as it is of historical importance. The museum is lost, never to be seen again. There is no other historical image of the interior of the museum available to us, as far as I know, and now that one is no longer available, as the postcard cannot currently be found.

I think I should have the opportunity of putting the PD unknown licence back as per your advice, and giving the information that every effort had been made to find the author of the postcard. I had looked at all available images in the local museums and archives, and searched for images of the Westgate towers exterior and interior for some years. I never found that image or anything resembling it. I should certainly have remembered if I had, because of its importance to me as a researcher. There is no information anywhere to tell us who took that photograph. --Storye book (talk) 15:35, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: fyi I have made an undeletion request here: Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests. --Storye book (talk) 15:43, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • (edit conflict) At the outset, I should say that I'm not an admin or anything like that. My advice though would be reload and add that information into the description in the license to cover off the requirement to describe the research conducted into the authorship (could pretty much be a cut and paste from the text above). I'd be happy to back you up if it was contested. Hchc2009 (talk) 15:45, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your advice - much appreciated. When you say "reload", does that mean I can upload the image again (if I can find it, as I no longer have the original) while the undeletion request is ongoing? Will the system allow me to upload an identical file? If that's how to do it, then I'll have a go. Thanks again. --Storye book (talk) 20:13, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Update: I have re-uploaded the image as per your advice. The system did not prevent me. It is under a different name: File:1908 Westgate Towers Museum Canterbury.jpg. Please let me know on my Wikimedia Commons talkpage if there is any problem. Thank you for your kind help so far. --Storye book (talk) 21:07, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Traction engine photo[edit]

Hi, Hchc2009! You have uploaded a nice photo of a traction engine (Diamond Queen) with a CCSA licence, which means I might use it in a magazine article I'm writing, provided I credit the photographer. Do you wish to use your real name, or just "Photo by Wiki editor Hchc2009" ? Please answer on my en.wiki talk page, thanks! -- Janke [[1]] 07:05, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reply left on your talk page as requested. Hchc2009 (talk) 15:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your message. It may yet be several years before I have finished my 1:4 scale model, and submit the article. (My 1:8 scale Live Steam loco took me 6 years to build... links on my en.wiki user page) -- Janke

File:1stglos1914.jpg[edit]

I refer to your message on my former talk page regarding the above image , which is now deleted. I have been away fro a while so have only just seen this. I understand the problem with copyright on images from 1914; the fact is that the identity of the photographer will probably never be known. Even if it was, the copyright may now been vested in the regiment. I see this image has a very different licence. Could this not apply her? Best wishers. Bikeroo (talk) 07:34, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! The license used on the other file is going along the right lines, but is slightly misapplied in this case; the "small print" requires that for an anonymous claim to be valid under UK law, reasonable steps must have been taken out to determine the original creator of the image (i.e. the user has to demonstrate that the identity of the photographer was never publicly known, as opposed to just not being known by the specific user today). As a result, the Wiki tag requires the uploader to detail the research they've carried out before the tag is valid (e.g. have they searched in books, searched on-line, talked to the regiment etc.?). At the moment, the North Staffs image doesn't have this, invalidating both the UK and the US tags. If someone was to document the research they'd carried out to identify the photographer, then that would validate the claim to anonymous status under UK law (as I understand it - I'm no lawyer!) and would in turn validate the US tag that's been applied to the image as well. Hchc2009 (talk) 09:01, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Copyright Watcher Barnstar
Hi there! I'm so sorry you had to clean up messes from my mass upload of Hack the Bells artwork. I really appreciate it - I have deleted the violating works and closed the deletion discussions. Thanks again for all your contributions to Commons! Sarah (talk) 21:59, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ronald Skirth images[edit]

Hello,

Thanks for your various messages on these pictures. Having seen (and photographed) the originals, there is no way of knowing who took the pictures - no stamp, for example, indicating the photographic studio - and these are private photographs, not official ones where there may be some kind of military record, for example. As far as the journal is concerned, I would have thought that one page out of many hundreds was not a breach of copyright - especially when used for illustrative purposes. With most creative works, you can reproduce a small percentage under fair use, can't you? In any case, although Ronald Skirth, who created the work, is deceased, I have the permission of the copyright holder, his daughter Jean Skirth, to publish it, as well as the various photographs included in it.

Let me know if there's anything more I can do to help. It seems to me it would be a shame to remove these images from Wikipedia. Most of them have already been published in the book The Reluctant Tommy, and the publishers (Macmillan) were satisfied that there was no issue with the copyright.

Dwab3 (talk) 00:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi! For the Wikimedia Commons to host an image, it needs to be free to use in both the country of origin (in this case the UK) and the US. Wikimedia doesn't accept images under the "fair use" principle. Publishers often publish old images without having the copyright to do so; they take the approach that if the copyright holder appears to challenge it and claim damages - unlikely with old photographs, although it does happen occasionally - then they will simply pay out a small amount of compensation, and that just forms part of the cost of doing business. We can't take that approach on the Commons.
  • For the journal, assuming that Ronald Skirth both took the photograph in the journal (on the left hand side of the image) and wrote the text, then the copyright holder of the underlying material is, as you say, Jean Skirth, and the copyright for the photograph of the journal is Duncan Barrett, credited here as the author. The way to handle this is described at Commons:OTRS, but basically consists of getting an email or similar from both Jean Skirth and Duncan Barrett, explicitly confirming that they have released their work into the Public Domain, and then sending that to the OTRS team, who will make a note on the file confirming that the material was released by them as stated.
  • For the other photographs, the UK takes anonymity to mean that an author was never known, as opposed to being one where we simply don't know who the author is today. As a result, you need to give evidence in the file of the research you undertook to find out who took the photograph before you can use the anonymous licensing tag. That research has to be of a reasonable level to justify the impact on the author's copyright - and typically goes beyond looking on the back of the photograph. But in this case, if you could state that you'd talked to the family members, and they didn't know who'd taken the photographs either, I personally think you'd have done due diligence, and the images would be now be copyright free in the UK. The problem I think you'll have is the US licensing though. US law states that anonymous, unpublished photographs are protected under US law for 120 years after the date of their creation, which will keep them copyrighted in the US until 2037, and so unsuitable for the Wikimedia Commons. Hchc2009 (talk) 10:27, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File:StirlingCastle1900.jpg[edit]

Sorry, where is the license problem of this file? It's the same (a duplicate) of this File:Castle from tower, Stirling, Scotland-LCCN2002695055.jpg ! Photochrome print nr. 13011, from the Library of Congress Photochrom Prints Collection, made in .jpg resolution. And we have thousands of Photochrome pictures of all the world, and they have all the same status! Where is the problem??? Best regards, --DenghiùComm (talk) 21:20, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As it was taken in the UK, it needs a valid UK copyright tag, explaining why it's free for use in the UK, that's all. Hchc2009 (talk) 21:52, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Hchc2009, the copyright was held by the Detroit Publishing Co. and the "home" country of publication was therefore the USA. If you have any questions, as the batch uploader I selected which LoC archives were suitable for Commons with care, so please do leave a note on my talk page. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 22:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Fae, if you check the policy on the Commons, it actually states that the source country is typically where it was first published, not where the company was owned. I can't see any evidence given in the file about where it was first published, which is why I would look to see a valid UK tag, since it was clearly created in the UK. Hchc2009 (talk) 22:53, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I know of no evidence that these cards were published in the UK. The photographs were taken world-wide, the publishing was not. Consequently no UK specific license is needed unless you can demonstrate more than the Library of Congress is telling us. --Fæ (talk) 18:10, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the Library of Congress says where it was first published either Fae, or when they were first published. Hchc2009 (talk) 20:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File:The Queen Pleads for the Men of Calais, 1914.JPG[edit]

Please stop edit warring. This file was kept, please accept that. Multichill (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't edit warring to remove an inappropriate tag; the editor concerned now recognises that there was a problem and has filled in the UK license tag as per the instructions on the template. Hchc2009 (talk) 18:36, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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