User talk:Dr. S. K. Verma

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File permission problem with File:Dr. Sunil Kumar Verma.jpg
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Replaceable fair use File:Photo of Dr Sunil Kumar Verma.jpg
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File:Photo of Dr Sunil Kumar Verma.jpg
Hello Dr Verma. Thank you for offering those photographs of yours, and sorry we have to be so picky about the copyright status. Regarding what you said at File:Photo of Dr Sunil Kumar Verma.jpg, we unfortunately cannot accept images like this under a "fair use" status, so we will only be able to use them if they are freely licensed. I can understand your concerns about commercial re-use, but again, according to our image policies, Wikipedia will only use images where commercial re-use too is allowed. However, by commercial re-use perhaps we mean something different from what you may be thinking of. We mean by it that if somebody wanted to, say, print and sell a book including Wikipedia articles, or sell a DVD with parts of our encyclopedia on it, they should be allowed to do so. For that, we need fully free licenses. However, no matter what copyright status your image is under, you will still retain the personality rights on them. This means that nobody would be allowed to print your photograph on, say, a commercial advertisement as if to imply your endorsement of some product. If that's the kind of scenario you are concerned about, I can reassure you that even after granting a fully free license you'd still be protected against such mis-use. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:26, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

My Reply:

Thanks a lot for comments!

In this case, you may release the photo as appropriate. Just ensure the point that you have already highlighted that no one could use it on illegal commercial products etc to promote the item. As for the legal book/DVD etc with WIKI articles in them, hence my photo, I am OK with this.

In fact, some people try to mis use personal photos on illegal / un-authorized educational kits as if it is promoted by research ambassadors that fortunately I am, hence I was bit conscious.

Dr S K Verma

Thanks for your help.

I was about to delete this, but you seem to be saying you are willing to license it under the Creative Commons license. If you are willing to, then you need to be logged in, and go change the image license itself, I can't do that for you. Otherwise, it will have to be deleted for the reasons Fut Perf has already explained. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 02:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Dr. Sunil Kumar Verma.jpg)
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