Wikipedia:Media copyright questions

Media copyright questions
Welcome to the Media Copyright Questions page, a place for help with image copyrights, tagging, non-free content, and related questions. For all other questions please see Wikipedia:Questions. How to add a copyright tag to an existing image On the description page of the image (the one whose name starts File:), click Edit this page. From the page Wikipedia:File copyright tags, choose the appropriate tag: For work you created yourself, use one of the ones listed under the heading "For image creators". For a work downloaded from the internet, please understand that the vast majority of images from the internet are not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. Exceptions include images from flickr that have an acceptable license, images that are in the public domain because of their age or because they were created by the United States federal government, or images used under a claim of fair use. If you do not know what you are doing, please post a link to the image here and ask BEFORE uploading it. For an image created by someone else who has licensed their image under an acceptable Creative Commons or other free license, or has released their image into the public domain, this permission must be documented. Please see Requesting copyright permission for more information. Type the name of the tag (e.g.; {{Cc-by-4.0}}), not forgetting {{ before and }} after, in the edit box on the image's description page. Remove any existing tag complaining that the image has no tag (for example, {{untagged}}) Hit Publish changes. If you still have questions, go on to "How to ask a question" below. How to ask a question To ask a new question hit the "Click here to start a new discussion" link below. Please sign your question by typing ~~~~ at the end. Check this page for updates, or request to be notified on your talk page. Don't include your email address, for your own privacy. We will respond here and cannot respond by email. Note for those replying to posted questions If a question clearly does not belong on this page, reply to it using the template {{mcq-wrong}} and, if possible, leave a note on the poster's talk page. For copyright issues relevant to Commons where questions arising cannot be answered locally, questions may be directed to Commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright.
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How to upload?

Is there a way I can correctly upload this image found here? If not, is there any photo of him I could upload to Wikipedia? Catmando999 Check out his talk page! 00:55, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

the copyright page on the Albany website lists the conditions under which the content can be reused. As they specifically exclude commercial reuse then the only way would be with written consent from the council as per one of the later paragraphs. Nthep (talk) 09:04, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

@Nthep:

Okay. I will know put this question out there:

Henk van de Ven

Are there any good pictures of him I can upload? Any? Catmando999 Check out his talk page! 00:33, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Do you mean this Henk van de Ven? Did you search Flickr or ask the mayors office to release an image under a free licence or ask an Australian wiki editor to take a photo? ww2censor (talk) 10:07, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes, him. I will follow your suggestions. Thanks. Catmando999 Check out his talk page! 10:10, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Usable?

I have a question about this image. I'd like to upload it to Wikipedia for the article for Lucy Addison, but I was unsure about the copyright. The book was published in the 1920s and it's currently hosted at the Internet Archive. It looks like it's been republished, but I know that this does not always mean that the images would be copyrighted.

Do you guys think that this would be in the public domain? The re-release of the book appears to be copyrighted, but I'm not sure if that's for the book itself or the things that the publishers added. I know that the book Wuthering Heights is in the public domain, but print books will still have copyright notices so I'm unsure on this. Tokyogirl79LVA (talk) 14:52, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Images published in the 1921 book can be uploaded to Commons with the status template "PD-1923". Although the book unfortunately does not provide information about the illustrations, it is reasonable to assume that they were published with the consent of their respective copyright owners. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:17, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

• Good to know! I'll try to get this uploaded sometime tonight or tomorrow. Tokyogirl79LVA (talk) 10:52, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Professional Photos

For copyright were do professional photos fall.

I have a an image of Dal Dhaliwal given to me by her and the photo was taken by her photographer. Where does this fall under copyright.RockinWebsites (talk) 15:33, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Just ask Dal Dhaliwal if she would ask her photographer to email in an Commons:OTRS to us for that image. More specifically, to fill in the template in the box here Commons:OTRS#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries, then cut & past it into an email and send to : permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. It would also bring the photographer's work to a wider audience. Without that, we can not use the image.--Aspro (talk) 16:03, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Mansfield Smith-Cumming

There are multiple images of Mansfield Smith-Cumming, a British man who died in 1923. Are these eligible for inclusion in the article about him? If so, what specifically would be needed on the file page at Commons? ―Mandruss ☎ 23:18, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Please I need assistance here

Please iIneed assistance on creating page here. Most of my work here are being deleted and I don't know why. All the information are true and correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tesoro77 (talk • contribs) 10:26, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

You should probably ask for help at the Tea House.--ukexpat (talk) 14:43, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Image of Titumir

I uploaded a image of Titumir, a Bengali hero who was fought against British and Bengali landlords few days back. Now, I found the image in a popular newspaper in Bangladesh. Newspaper doesnt have a clear description of his image. What to do now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amfmaads (talk • contribs) 11:52, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

If this is a genuine photo or painting etc made at the time of the person's life, this would be public domain for sure (made before 1831). Looking at your image upload File:Titumir.jpg it sure looks to be fairly old, but compressed very highly as a .jpg. Being in colour means that it could well have been published more recently though, so it would be good to get more info on that image. But you could make a good claim for fair use. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:57, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

As he was dead by 1831, there can be no photos, so any image is likely to be an artist's impression and the colour image (I presume this one) seems to just be a coloured interpretation of this black and white image. We really should know who and when the images were made but there are no attributions but if you comply with all 10 non-free content policy guidelines it may work. As an alternative you should know that Bangladesh does have a Freedom of panorama exception per c:COM:FOP#Bangladesh so the mosaic shown on this webpage could be photographed by a wiki editor and freely licenced or ask the college to release the image freely and would make a suitable image for the article. ww2censor (talk) 11:21, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Question on copyright of images from the 1920s/1930s

I've been working on Marilyn Monroe's article, and am looking for images to illustrate the section about her childhood. I can find several photographs of Monroe as a child (she was born in 1926 so I presume mostly taken between 1926–1935), but have no idea about whether these kinds of images are copyrighted? Presumably none of them were copyrighted at the time as they would've been just normal childhood photos taken by family members, yet Getty Images is confusingly making money by licensing them: http://www.gettyimages.fi/photos/marilyn-monroe-child?assettype=image&excludenudity=false&family=editorial&page=1&phrase=marilyn%20monroe%20child&sort=mostpopular I'm currently in the process of taking the article to FA level, and an image of Monroe as a child/teen would be a wonderful addition. I've read through the WP guides to copyright issues, but still don't trust myself on this topic. Any help would be appreciated! TrueHeartSusie3 (talk) 16:43, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

@TrueHeartSusie3: Hi,

It depends about publication. If they were not published until recently, they are still copyrighted. If they were published without a copyright notice, or the copyright was not renewed, they are in the public domain. Regards, Yann (talk) 16:57, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

So if I find a magazine from let's say early 1960s with an image of Monroe as a child, it shouldn't be copyrighted, unless there is a copyright notice in the magazine? TrueHeartSusie3 (talk) 17:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)TrueHeartSusie3

Possibly yes. See c:Commons:Hirtle chart or File:Copyright rules chart 2014 - Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University.pdf for details. Yann (talk) 17:45, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

File:Rapid KL Logo.svg

Seems to me that this should be {{PD-textlogo}}. Any dissent/objections? Useddenim (talk) 18:02, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

It seems like text, yeah. The underlying SVG may be copyrighted though - in this case we might need a freely licensed rendition.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:30, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Requested change to main image for Heroes Reborn (miniseries) article

I noticed that there's a comment on the talk page of this article mentioning that the image currently used in the article as the series logo is actually a fan-made image and not the actual logo, as its description and fair use rationale state. The talk page comment also includes a link to the main NBC page that has the actual logo, and I'd change this myself but I'm not at all familiar with working with images on Wikipedia, and since the desire is to change a preexisting image it seemed complicated. Can someone with more experience please swap the logo out for the correct one? Sorry if this isn't the right place for requests like this. Just hoping to get the attention of someone who knows how to do this. —2macia22 (talk) 19:08, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Detroit Industry Murals

The Detroit Industry Murals were painted in 1932 and 1933 in a public location, which qualified them for "publication" under contemporary US law. Were paintings subject to renewal at the time, and if so, when, and how would the renewal have been made known? Like with books, would the painter have had to renew them in the 28th year, and would the renewal have been published in a normal place like the Catalog of Copyright Entries? I'd love to undelete the full-resolution editions of File:Rivera detroit industry south.jpg and File:Rivera detroit industry north.jpg and re-mark them as {{PD-art}}. In case you're wondering, I've checked the full-resolution editions without finding copyright notices, but full-resolution is still small enough that we can't be anywhere close to sure. Nyttend (talk) 03:27, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Best to create new image or try to use official one

Hi, this may be the wrong place to ask, but I'm trying to determine how best to handle a chart depicted in a novel. The chart has two different forms, and is a representation of something similar to Morse code. Form 1 and Form 2. As far as I can tell, there are no online copies of the original chart except on sites like Tumblr, and I'm assuming that those copies are probably not good for meeting Wikipedia's copyright standards.

Is this a case where I should try to create an original representation of the chart (using some kind of painting program)? Or can the originals be scanned from a copy of the novel or downloaded from Tumblr? I'm not sure if the format and design of the original chart is important enough to use the kind of fair-use rationale that applies for logos. The information it displays is definitely important for the article it will be used in. Thanks for help with this complicated question. 2ReinreB2 (talk) 05:03, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

@2ReinreB2: Information is not copyrighted but under some circumstances arrangement in a chart of even very basic information can be – by the author's creative choice of arrangement, style, color, spacing, etc. The first seems like a very basic chart that just follows alphabetical order and has no threshold of originality attached and so can just be re-drawn. The second is more iffy on that score (and I can't see any way it could be a valid subject for fair use in an article on the novel). I'd like to see other's opinions but I think it's unusable to upload or redraw in substantially the same form. That does not mean you could not places its information in some other way. But I'm also wondering if this level of in-universe detail is really necessary for (I'm guessing) the plot summary of a novel? As to the first, here you go:

A    | B    | \ C    | | D    | / E    \ F    | | \ G   | | |

H    | | / I     / J    | \ \ K   | \ | L    | \ / M   | / \ N   | / |

O   | / / P    \ \ Q    \ | R    \ / S    / \ T    / | U    / /

V    | | \ \ W   | | / / X    | | | \ Y    | | | / Z    | | | |

Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:06, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

biology

TOXANOMY living organisms like cocraoch, house fly termite clasication are kingdom1, phyllum2,class3,order4,family5,genus6,specimen7 COCROACH CLASICAFICATIOM 1 animalia 2arthropoda 3insecta 4dictyoptera 5blattidea 6periplaneta 7peripluneta Americana. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.210.143.83 (talk) 01:07, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello. I can not find or infer any question here. This seems like a declarative statement and I cannot imagine how it interfaces with a copyright question, i.e., what this page is for. In other words, you will need to clarify what you are after if you want any help.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:06, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Adblock image

i would like to upload a specific adblock image white list photo the white list image is at the pagefair blog does it meet fair use criteria--Jonnymoon96 (talk) 02:48, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

http://blog.pagefair.com/2015/adblock-joins-abp/

Most likely not because it is information that could easily be conveyed by text alone. See Wikipedia:Non-free content#Meeting the no free equivalent criterion. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 04:07, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

[Untitled]

I am writing a Wikipedia article about a singer. Can I take an image of him from one of his facebook photos?115.164.210.131 (talk) 17:22, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Most likely not. If you gave more specific details, I could take a look at the case. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 17:45, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Video Game Screenshot

If I were to take an in-game screenshot for League of Legends would that be copyrighted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Packerfan504 (talk • contribs) 00:30, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

@Packerfan504: Yes, it would be. It might possibly be usable under a properly documented claim of fair use, it it met all ten of the criteria and was provided an appropriate copyright tag and fair use rationale. If you told us the intended use, we could be more specific.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk)

@Fuhghettaboutit: Currently the League of Legends Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends has only 1 picture, which is woefully out of date, consisting of the old map from more than a year ago, and the old UI from more than 6 months ago. I wanted to take a screenshot with Fraps/Bandicam to update that picture to a more current one. In addition I wanted to take screenshots of the other maps too add to those sections. --Packerfan504 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:28, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Updating a logo

I recently spotted that the logo for the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association is out of date - they changed it a couple of years ago - so I thought it would be straightforward just to change it, using a copy of the new logo from the HCSA website. I filled in a detailed form whilst using the image wizard, but, I have now had a message saying that I need to provide even more information.

I don't know about the "copyright" or "ownership" of this image, so perhaps I am not allowed to upload it? --Guineveretoo (talk) 15:34, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Don't worry, your upload is fine but the fair use rationale was still a bit weak. For this type of "artistic" logo we have a special rationale template: {{Non-free use rationale logo}}. I updated the file page accordingly so that's now ok. De728631 (talk) 16:34, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Sandbox and Images

Have uploaded images to compose article in sandbox and do not want them speedily deleted. Will rationalize copyright permissions before submitting article. Is this feasible.

S051125E — Preceding unsigned comment added by S051125E (talk • contribs) 18:25, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Only if they are free images, unfortunately. WP:NFCC#9 means that non-free images may only be added if the article has been moved to articlespace.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:57, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Message from Stefan2 re photo for David Reynolds, British historian

I have provided some explanation in details on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Reynolds_with_FDR_wheelchair.jpg

Not sure how to frame this according to your wiki criteria. This is a publicity photo of me, taken by the film company with whom I make documentaries and used by them for publicity and by me (with their permission) for my website. Further advice would be welcome.