User talk:Azee2
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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 15:25, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
File:5728d8 39657573daa64191912a5928682a9481.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.
The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:42, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Please do not take content from other websites, as all work is considered to be copyrighted to that website or the content's creator unless it is explicitly marked that the content is in the public domain, released without a copyright, or was released under a compatible Creative Commons copyright. If there is no copyright information then a non-compatible copyright is automatically assumed. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:42, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
File:Alpha education.png has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.
The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Tokyogirl79 (talk) 20:59, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
File:Drjosephwong.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.
The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Tokyogirl79 (talk) 21:16, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
File:TDSB-ALPHA press release .png has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.
The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Tokyogirl79 (talk) 21:37, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Explanation
[edit]I wanted to give a bit of explanation as to the deletions. The reason is that as far as I can tell, none of these images are in the public domain or were released under a compatible Creative Commons license. There were also no notations that clearly marked them as being released with no license at all. Unless these notes are present, work is considered to be automatically copyrighted. The reason for this is that copyright is tricky - someone can continue to hold a copyright on something that would otherwise look like it should fall in the public domain. Companies and organizations especially have a good reason to retain all of the rights to their images, as they hope to gain from the images or work and prevent others from using it for their own profits. Uploading something to the Commons typically gives users the almost complete ability to use the images however they want, even to benefit themselves or in ways that the organization would not approve.
Don't take these deletions badly and I hope that you continue to use the Commons. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 21:45, 25 June 2017 (UTC)