User talk:JacksonKQuinn

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, JacksonKQuinn!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 21:55, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

File:FIU Pedestrian Bridge Collapse February 26, 2018.png

File:FIU Pedestrian Bridge Collapse February 26, 2018.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

— Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 02:15, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Licensing policy

Hello and welcome to Wikimedia Commons. I'm writing here in response to your request at Commons:Deletion requests/File:FIU Pedestrian Bridge Collapse February 26, 2018.png to provide an explanation/general overview of what sorts of photos can be hosted on Commons.

Material on Wikimedia Commons In general, Wikimedia Commons only accepts media that are available in one of two cases:

1. The media is in the public domain; or
2. The media is available under a suitable free license. These licenses must make the work freely available for commercial re-use and may not restrict the creation of derivative works.

The general licensing policy explains this in detail, but I will provide a high-level summary below:

• For creations by others:

  Because the Wikimedia Foundation (the nonprofit that hosts Wikimedia Commons) is based in the United States, the above need to always be true in the United States for legal reasons. If the file's country of origin (i.e. the first country in which the media was published) is not the United States, then the above must also be true in the country of origin (i.e. if we are looking at a photograph of an Argentine soccer player that was published in Argentina in 1989, we'd need it to be in the public domain/freely licensed in both Argentina and the United States; it being in the public domain in only Argentina or only the United States would not suffice). All other media (such as media that relies upon a claim of fair use to justify its use on a Wikimedia Wiki) is not permitted to be hosted on Commons and is liable to deletion when it is discovered that the file is not in the public domain and not available under a free license.

  There are a number of resources on Wikimedia Commons that are available to provide guidance with respect to copyright rules for various photographic subject matters and for various countries. A very high-level document describing these rules is available at Commons:Copyright rules, and a page that contains an index for our country-by-country information on copyright rules can be found at Commons:Copyright rules by territory.

• For your own creations:

  If you are the creator of a work in the United States, you are presumed to be the copyright holder unless you have signed a written agreement to transfer your interest in the copyright to another party. As such, you are generally free to upload your own photographs and other media to Commons, providing that it serves a reasonable educational purpose and that you release it under a suitable free license. If your work is a derivative work of another copyrighted work (such as a photograph you took of a three-dimensional sculpture placed in a New York City public park in June 2004), then that other work must also be available under a suitable free license for you to upload it to Commons.

Again, welcome to Commons, and please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 03:11, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, I’ve just been working on a page for an assignment. I also added another image from the same document as the one you requested to delete, would you be able to request deletion for that one too? I already removed both photos from the page I was working on. JacksonKQuinn (talk) 03:13, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Not a problem. I've tagged the other file for speedy deletion in this edit. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 00:27, 28 April 2023 (UTC)