User talk:HaggenPagan26

File:Scott Nails getting hit where it hurts..jpg
Hello. I noticed you recently uploaded File:Scott Nails getting hit where it hurts..jpg. While doing so, on the WP:File Upload Wizard page, you clicked on an option that said "I can demonstrate that this work is legally in the Public Domain, i.e. nobody owns any copyrights on it." Below it, you must have seen a red warning box saying:


 * Public Domain means that nobody owns any copyrights on this work. It does not mean simply that it is freely viewable somewhere on the web or that it has been widely used by others. This is not for images you simply found somewhere on the web. Most images on the web are under copyright and belong to somebody, even if you believe the owner won't care about that copyright. If it is in the public domain, you must be able to point to an actual law that makes it so. If you can't point to such a law but merely found this image somewhere, then please do not upload it.

Below this notice, you entered "It was posted on Twitter" as the reason why you thought this image was in the public domain.

Please don't take this as criticism, but I'd really be interested in hearing from you why you thought you could upload this file in this way. You are not the only person to make mistakes like this, and I am trying to improve our upload forms to make them easier to understand, in order to avoid misunderstandings like this. I'd really like to understand if there was anything unclear about the explanations I quoted above? Could you explain why, after these explanations, you thought "being posted on Twitter" made an image fall into the public domain?

By the way, there were similar problems about File:Justin Timberlake pledge of alliegance.jpg, but in that case we were lucky and the image actually did turn out to be in the public domain, though for a different reason.

Thank you, Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:21, 7 March 2012 (UTC)