User talk:AndeanDragon

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, AndeanDragon!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 23:06, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Image licensing

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and thank you for your contributions. However, I'm sorry to say there are some issues with your uploads. They're currently sourced to the WSU Esploro site, and presumably were provided by Prof. Thanik as part of the project you're working on, but an explicit licence doesn't appear to be noted on the source pages. Wikimedia Commons requires that images are released by the authors under a free licence (such as Creative Commons By-SA or less restrictive ones). I believe Esploro has a mechanism for directly specifying licences for individual files, though I'm still not quite sure whether that would be adequate, as it doesn't appear that Prof. Thanik is the one directly accessing the system. The issue is a bit muddied by the fact that he appears to be subject of these photos, so isn't the author, which means that technically there's also a claim of copyright transfer that might need to be proven. In any case, I suggest looking first to see if a compatible Creative Commons licence can be tagged directly on Esploro (after having confirmed that the image owner agrees to the licence terms). There are more details at Commons:Licensing and Commons:Volunteer Response Team. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:08, 20 October 2021 (UTC)