User talk:Newsguyla

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Newsguyla!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 18:41, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

File tagging File:93.7NRG LOGO.png

This media was probably deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:93.7NRG LOGO.png. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). The file probably has been deleted. If you sent a permission, try to send it again after 14 days. Do not re-upload. When the VRT-member processes your mail, the file can be undeleted. Additionally you can request undeletion here, providing a link to the File-page on Commons where it was uploaded ([[:File:93.7NRG LOGO.png]]) and the above demanded information in your request.

 

-- Marchjuly (talk) 21:23, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Newsguyla. You're going to need to verify your copyright ownership of this logo in order for it to be kept by Commons. Just follow the instructions given in the above template or provided to you by LPfi in their response to your question at Commons:Help desk#Uploading Logo. If you're copyright ownership of this logo is unable to be verified, the file is going to need to be deleted because it's almost certainly too complex to be otherwise ineligible for copyright protection as a simple logo. Just for reference, a logo file like this uploaded under a non-verifiable license is typically deleted as a copyright violation; however, since you're claiming that you're the station's owner, you're being given the chance to verify your copyright ownership over the logo. Before you do this, though, you may want to carefully read Commons:Licensing, Commons:License revocation and even Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia for reference just to make sure you fully understand what giving your Commons:Consent means. You may have uploaded this logo file to Commons because you wanted to use it in some English Wikipedia article, but Commons only accepts content for which the copyright holder is basically agreeing in advance to allow anyone anywhere in the world to download the file at anytime and use for any purpose (including commercial and derivative reuse). Uploading a file to Commons doesn't mean you're giving up your copyright ownership over the file, but it does mean you're making a version of the file available to others for reuse under a certain type of license so that they can more easily use it. So, as long as others comply with the terms of the license you release the file under, they can pretty much download it and do what they want with it without needing to ask for additional permission. Since radio station logos often have some commercial value, you might want to make sure you OK with this type of thing before giving your consent. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:22, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

However, they cannot use it as they wish, as you are allowed to retain any trademark rights. Read the licence thoroughly to make sure you don't waive those also, and choose another if needed. The CC-BY-SA 4.0 explicitly says (section 2(b)(2)): "Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License", so it should be safe. –LPfi (talk) 06:51, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Yes, LPfi is correct in that there might be other rights involved with the logo that a separate from copyright related stuff. Such things aren't really a concern of Commons though and Commons hosts plenty of files released under acceptable free licenses that are protected in some other way. You might want to try Googling or actually talking to specialized lawyer for more information, but I don't think a trademark violation and a copyright violation are necessarily always the same thing. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:19, 9 April 2022 (UTC)