February 2008 edit

 

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File:19th Street & 11th Avenue NYC.jpg edit

Before you read the warning below: I've changed the licensing of the file to {{db-author}} by which you release the photograph into the public domain (which is what you did in the case of File:19th Street & 11th Avenue NYC - Chelsea Piers.jpeg) because the latter is just a rotated version of the first. I will delete File:19th Street & 11th Avenue NYC - Chelsea Piers.jpeg which is of course useless because of its orientation). If however you do not want to release the image in the public domain, let me know and I'll delete it. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson (talk) 18:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Reply


 

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Copyright problems with Artists' Fellowship, Inc. edit

 

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Permissions edit

Hi, I do have permission from the Artists' Fellowship Director. It is a non-profit group, all the Board Members volunteer their time. I know that they have really zero internet presence and there are no other references available online except for their own website. So, how do we do this? It is a worthy group, around since 1859, artists helping artists. Thank you.UBU07 (talk) 23:30, 26 October 2012 (UTC)Reply


In order to do this, the copyright holder, not you, must formally grant permission under a compatable license for Wikipedia to use the material.

Here is some text:

holders and ask them to allow us to use it under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) or a CC-BY-SA-compatible license and, if possible, also the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). See Wikipedia:Copyrights for more.

The main legal issue that is important to explain to potential contributors: they would be agreeing that their material can be used freely by Wikipedia AND its downstream users, and that such use might include commercial use, for which the contributor is not entitled to royalties or compensation.

And a link can be fond here.

It is important to understand, that only the copyright holder can grant permission to Wikipedia, and through doing so, grants rights to all future Wikiepdia users of the text, including for commercial purposes.

Here is a release guideline:

[1]

And, have the copyright holder, again, not you, but the actual holder of the copyright, send the directed release to: permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

And, that should take care of it. The text will need a lot of rewritikng, and, while I believe it is notable, there still may be an attempt to delete the article for non-notability. All this is just normal community process.

Let me know when the permission has been delivered, and I will help edit the article.

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