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I have received notice from a Wikipedia editor that this photo appears to violate Wikipedia rules regarding copyright and the use of other freely available photos. As a law school professor who has taught intellectual property law in my classes for years, I sincerely do not understand how it can be a violation of my intellectual property rights to upload my own photo. I took this photo. I hold the copyright. I freely uploaded it & also gave permission for it to be used in Wikipedia. I chose the non-fair-use on the wizard because I did not see an option for uploading one's own copyrighted photo. This is what I understood I was supposed to do from a Wikipedia guide page that I read earlier, which advised that I should state that I took the picture, freely uploaded it & gave permission for its use.

While it may be true that other photos of the subject may be found, I did not see in the rules that uploading one's own copyrighted image is prohibited. In fact, the takedown warning states that I can correct the problem "by taking your own photograph of the subject." This is already my own photograph of the subject--it's not clear to me how replacing a photo I took with a photo I will take makes any difference under the rules.

Thanks for your help with this!

Fashionethics (talk) 23:24, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If this is just a question of changing the licence because you couldn't find the correct image to use, that is easily solved by changing the licence to either a Creative Commons licence or by you releasing the image into the public domain using PD-Self. The Cc-by-sa-3.0 licence is the better course as you retain the right to attribution. but you need to understand that the licence isn't limited to use on Wikipedia and is a global licence for use anywhere by anyone. NtheP (talk) 16:55, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


 * License changed. Thanks!

Fashionethics (talk) 17:07, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you add the date (year only will do if you can't remember month or day) you took the image. NtheP (talk) 18:19, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Done - 2010. Thanks for the leeway re date - when I can track down the original date-stamped file I'll add it - this was a size-reduced copy of a copy.Fashionethics (talk) 18:41, 21 December 2012 (UTC)