User talk:Flybefree

Image for the Rachael Blake article
Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia! I gather you don't like the image for the Rachael Blake article? Well, we're not here to annoy you, but it's not actually terrible, and more important, it is the only free-licensed image we could find. That means that it can be freely reused and edited by anyone, like the rest of Wikipedia; most images on the web - including the IMDB ones you suggest - are copyrighted, so we can't use them.

The best way to have it stop being replaced there, is by uploading a better one; again it has to be licensed for free modification and reuse. By default, the photographer owns the copyright to a photograph they take, so the easiest thing is to take the image yourself; most smartphones work nowadays. (Or you can hire someone else to do it, but they have to give you the rights to the photo, usually explicitly saying so in a contract.) Put the resulting image on a web page that everyone is sure is officially yours (Twitter? LinkedIn? Facebook?), with an accompanying message like: "This is an image I took of Rachael Blake at X place at Y time; I'm Rachael Blake/Jane Smith her publicist/Fred Jones, her third cousin's brother-in-law (whichever applies, and will explain how you got it). I own the rights to this image, and am releasing it under the license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/". Then you can upload it, referencing that web page, and put it on the article - or you can just write the link to the page with the image here, or on my talk page, or on the article talk page, and I or someone else will be glad to do the uploading for you. If you don't have a well known official web page, then you can email the image to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, with the same accompanying text; but that will take longer, possibly months, and they might have to write back to confirm that you are you, or other details. OK? Thanks for contributing! --GRuban (talk) 17:08, 13 November 2017 (UTC)