User talk:Valhotel

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 08:17, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

A heads-up

I just did a search for all images that contained the phrase "from my collection", and File:Val Post Office from my collection, but not taken by me.jpg and File:Val Hotel old photo from my collection, but not taken by me.jpg were among the first search results.

I did that search after opening a copyright discssion at Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#flickr_contributors_Dean_Faulkner_and_Aero_Icarus. Some of Aero Icarus's images say they are from his or her collection. In that discussion I noted he or she should not have licensed those images unless the actual photographer explicitly signed over all rights.

Now your two images -- if you are the original photographer's legal heir, you get to license them, however you like. But I think if you own a copy, even if it is the very last copy in existence, you probably don't have the legal authority to license them here.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 19:24, 12 November 2020 (UTC)