User talk:Bohemiandelight

Photo with non-commercial license
Dear uploader: The media file you uploaded as Image:Meganfoxjpg.jpg has been listed for speedy deletion because you selected a copyright license type implying some type of restricted use, such as for non-commercial use only, or for educational use only or for use on Wikipedia by permission. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, this is in fact not the case. Please do not upload any more files with these restrictions on them, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. See our non-free content guidelines for more more information.

If you created this media file and want to use it on Wikipedia, you may re-upload it (or amend the image description if it has not yet been deleted) and use the license GFDL-self to license it under the GFDL, or cc-by-sa-2.5 to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, or use PD-self to release it into the public domain.

If you did not create this media file but want to use it on Wikipedia, there are two ways to proceed. First, you may choose one of the fair use tags from this list if you believe one of those fair use rationales applies to this file. Second, you may want to contact the copyright holder and request that they make the media available under a free license.

If you have any questions please ask at Media copyright questions. Thank you.
 * Specifically, you would have to ask your friend to release this image under a cc-by-sa-2.0 license on the flickr page, or forward commercial use permission to permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 04:19, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Meganfoxjpg.jpg
Hi Bohemiandelight and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your interest in adding image, we could always use high quality work, like that Megan Fox photo. In order to use these images on Wikipedia articles, they have to be released under a free license. The necessary conditions for a free license include the ability to modify and re-distribute the image, under non-commercial and commercial usage. Rights of the copyright holder are preserved by a mandatory transferable license, the most popular licenses on Wikipedia include the GFDL and the Creative Commons licenses. Your friend published the Megan Fox image on flickr under a Creative Commons license, which is generally more flexible, but allows for some terms that are incompatible with Wikipedia requirements. To be specific CC licenses include the optional fields "NC" and "ND" (non-commercial use only & no derivatives) that are not allowed. Acceptable CC licenses include the cc-by (attribution only) or the cc-by-sa (share-alike, meaning all derivative works and future usage must maintain the same CC license). If your friend would be willing to release her images under something like cc-by-sa-3.0, then her images could be used on Wikipedia and by third parties, provided that they maintain her preferred attribution and distribute free content (free as in speech, not beer :) ).

To verify the free-content status, you will have to either adjust the license at flickr to cc-by-sa or forward a permission e-mail and list of images to permissions-en ATwikimedia DOT org (funky formatting used to discourage spambots from picking up the address). After your letter is received, you will be issued a ticket by a member of Wikipedia's OTRS team, which you could include with the uploaded images to verify licensing. There is also a sister project to Wikipedia called the Wikimedia Commons, that is better equipped to manage groups of images, and you may wish to upload content over there instead. I'd be happy to help with managing or uploading these images, please let me know how you wish to proceed. Regards, ˉˉanetode╦╩ 21:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Megan Fox photo
It's great that you have a friend willing to donate high-quality photos! I have sort of a guide to getting correct licenses for free content from Flickr users, with some boilerplate text you can use for the image pages, at User:Videmus Omnia/Requesting free content. Please feel free to use whatever may be helpful. I also encourage you to upload the photos at Wikimedia Commons, which has a specialized interface for Flickr uploads to make this easier. Also, if you upload free photos at Commons, they can be used by other projects besides just English Wikipedia. Thanks, and good luck! Videmus Omnia Talk  00:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)