User talk:Cognoman

Unspecified source/license for File:Dennis The Fox, Seattle, 1972.jpg
Dennis The Fox owns all rights to this photo. He supplied it to me. He wants it included in the Wikipedia essay. I'm easily confused and just can't figure out how to get it approved. Please help! -PeteCognoman (talk) 17:24, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * As stated in the warning below - If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion. RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:35, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading File:Dennis The Fox, Seattle, 1972.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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File permission problem with File:Dennis The Fox, Mothertrucker LP cover-art, 1972.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Dennis The Fox, Mothertrucker LP cover-art, 1972.jpg, which you've attributed to Dennis Caldirola. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

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If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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This also applies to File:Dennis The Fox, Seattle, 1972.jpg. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:41, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with...this is still too complicated for me to understand. The situation is simple: Photo subject is photo owner. He wants it posted. He does not want to make it Public Domain or have people alter it if they use it. Help! Cognoman (talk) 19:45, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Cognoman (talk) 19:45, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The short answer is, if that's what he wants, Wikipedia cannot have the photo. A license that does not allow re-use and modification is too restrictive to be considered free by Wikipedia, and someone else could take an image of him and release it under a free license, so there's no need to make use of a non-free image. Huon (talk) 21:31, 16 May 2017 (UTC)