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    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
    1. On the description page of the image (the one whose name starts File:), click Edit this page.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. Remove any existing tag complaining that the image has no tag (for example, {{untagged}})
    5. Hit Publish changes.
    6. If you still have questions, go on to "How to ask a question" below.
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    How to create a copyright tag — Preceding unsigned comment added by MTARAILROADEDITIOR (talk • contribs) 23:47, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    I don't understand your question. You basically waive any copyright in your contributions to Wikipedia when you click the "Publish" button. Did you not realize that? --Orange Mike | Talk 23:52, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    That's not true. Your contributions are still under copyright. It is just the CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL copyrights. You certainly don't waive copyright. In any case, they probably meant File:LIRR 7322-Babylon.jpg. Which is a copyvio. --Majora (talk) 01:50, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Discussion at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 January 18#Non-free road signs used in list article

     You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2018 January 18#Non-free road signs used in list article. — Marchjuly (talk) 08:58, 15 March 2018 (UTC)Template:Z48[reply]

    Discussion at WT:CSD#WP:F5 and reasonable exceptions

     You are invited to join the discussion at WT:CSD#WP:F5 and reasonable exceptions. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:12, 15 March 2018 (UTC)Template:Z48[reply]

    School logo licensing help

    Per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Article_guidelines#Infobox_contents, the article "The Chiltern School" needs a logo in the infobox. I don't know if the school logo is under PD-ineligible-USonly or Non-free school logo. Can anyone help with this school logo? 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:35A9:1579:6BFD:67FF (talk) 11:10, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    I expect you are talking about this: https://chiltern.beds.sch.uk/newsite/wordpress/wp-content/themes/the-chiltern-school/images/logo.png , that would be too complex for PD, so go for non-free school logo. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:35, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    File:The Chiltern School logo.png, uploaded and added to article. -- Begoon 11:48, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Let hope that people at The Chiltern School won't ask Wikipedia to remove it. 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:35A9:1579:6BFD:67FF (talk) 12:00, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    This school logo is made in the UK. I don't see any schools asking Wikipedia to take it down. A fair use grant is added to allow the use on Wikipedia. 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:35A9:1579:6BFD:67FF (talk) 14:23, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:35A9:1579:6BFD:67FF. Just want to mention a couple of things.
    1. Lots of templates have parameters for images; this, however, does not mean that an image is required to be used. The template parameter makes it easier to use images for sure, but it does not meant that one needs to be used. In addition, lots of WikiProject have individual guidelines regarding image use. While these may be helpful, they don't take precedence over community-wide policies or guidelines. Image use, especially non-free image use, is not automatic and should not really ever assumed to be so.
    2. Non-free content, as pointed out above by Hammersoft, does not really require permission from the copyright holder. Permission is nice, but is only needed when releasin the file under a free license. Non-free content can be uploaded to Wikipedia if it's use meets Wikipedia's non-free content use policy; non-free use files which don't satisfy this policy will either be removed from articles or deleted altogether, whichever is more appropriate. Wikipedia's non-free content use policy has been made purposely more restrictive than fair use as explained in WP:NFC#Background and WP:ITSFAIRUSE; so, this policy is what matters and a fair use grant to allow use on Wikipedia does not really have any bearing whatsoever. The fact that nobody has yet to complain is also not typically relevant, and the file will be deleted if it doesn't satify relevant Wikipedia policy.
    Using images can be tricky because of their licensing. Like text content though, image use is expected to comply with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Even when licensing is not an issue, a consensus may need to be established for using a particular image within a particular article when there is disagreement over such use. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:52, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    File:Trailer Park Boys logo.png

    Not sure that this needs to be licensed as {{Non-free logo}}. Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian TV series and Canada's TOO seems to lean toward the US's per c:COM:TOO#Canada. Even if this is not {{PD-logo}} for Canada, it seems to at least {{PD-ineligible-USonly}} for local use on Wikipedia. Is there any reason why this should not be converted to some form of PD? -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:43, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Hey Marchjuly. Canada doesn't buy into the "sweat of the brow" thing, so you should be find to transfer to Commons as a PD-text-logo. GMGtalk 16:17, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    File:Central Bedfordshire (logo).gif

    This logo turned out to be too simple for copyright protection. But it copyrighted in UK so it can't be in Wikimedia Commons. We don't need simple logo have NFCC. 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:7954:6CD2:930:6A8 (talk) 16:10, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Michelle Pfeiffer Header Image

    I was wondering if I could get some help with uploading a newer image to replace Michelle Pfeiffer's current image since the one that is currently in use is over a decade old. You're help is very much appreciated. Film Enthusiast (talk) 04:30, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi Film Enthusiast. There are other images of Michelle Pfeiffer available on Commons at c:Michelle Pfeiffer which can be used, but I don't think that a recent image of Pfeiffer is necessarily needed per se. You might want to discuss this at Talk:Michelle Pfeiffer to see if there's a consensus to change the photo. Finally, since Pfeiffer is still living, a non-free image cannot be used per WP:NFCC#1; therefore. any "new" image which you want to use will need to be either within the public domain or released under a free license. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:10, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Uploading a game screenshot

    Hi, In the page Dragon Quest IX there is a request to upload a screenshot of that game. I have a screenshot of that game I can upload but am unsure how to do this as when I go into the article and upload it (Edit, Insert, Media), it asks me whether it is my own work and I own the copyright, which I don't. However on the page Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Video games#Screenshots and cover art it says you can upload one non-free screenshot and since it has been requested I assume it is allowed. Am I uploading this in the wrong place? Thank you, JamesL567

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