File talk:William Binney, in offices of Democracy Now! in New York City, 4 May 2012..jpg

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On User_talk:Kfogel I just saw a notice that the image in question may be deleted due to copyright violations.

The image complies with the Wikimedia Commons guidelines: it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license on Flickr, and I indicated this when I uploaded it. (I have also received digitally signed personal correspondence from the image's copyright holder confirming that it is freely licensed, if that helps.)

So where did the problem start? I'd like to understand where things went wrong, because perhaps this is happening for many other images as well. I uploaded using the Commons' guided uploader, and I checked the appropriate radio button to indicate the CC-BY-SA license on Flickr. Not sure what else I could have done to indicate compliance. How did this end up in the copyright-concerns bucket?

(Looking a second time, I see now that the image appeared in the Boston Liberal. Well, it's a freely licensed image! Of course it can appear in more than one place -- that's the whole point. The mere fact of an image appearing elsewhere on the web is *not* by itself an indication of copyright infringement.)

Kfogel (talk) 15:59, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]