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User:Storye book/editing/Assisting copyright-holders to give permission for uploads

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Note: the following has worked so far, but is liable to updating.

Sending the email

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For the following to work, your own photographs, OR someone else's photographs of your own 2D artworks, need to have been already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, with a copyright licence and a {{Permission pending}} template, plus details of the name of the artwork, the name of the author and the name of the copyright owner (besides usual info requirements such as source).

Send a permission email to the Volunteer Response Team - permissions-commons@wikimedia.org - giving all of the following if possible, within seven days of the image upload(s) (otherwise the files may be deleted):

  • The name of the artwork(s) and the filename(s) of the images concerned,
  • The url(s) of the image(s) OR of their Commons category
  • Name of author/artist/creator
  • Name of copyright owner
  • Exact name of the copyright licence to be used.

An example of a suitable licence is: "Cc-by-sa-4.0" An example of that licence as it will appear on the page can be seen here: Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The above is an easy way to confirm permission. A more fiddly way (but useful if you require more precise info) is to check out the following:

Example

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The "easy way" as written out above was used by the professional photographer who kindly donated three of his valuable photographs for "my" article The Hatchling.