User talk:Lennox Brian Miller

Images in Wikipedia
Hej Lennox Brian Miller,

Sorry for all the deletion requests for the pictures. I know you had good intentions and those pictures would be great to illustrate the article about Thakor Patel. Unfortunately, reproductions of artworks enjoy the same protection under most copyright laws as the original artwork and can therefore not be used unless the creator is long dead (80 years or more) or if he gives direct permission. So, unless Thakor Patel himself gives permission to use his artworks (under a suitable licence) to Wikipedia, they cannot be used here.

Keep up the good work! Andel (talk) 18:59, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello Andel,

I know Thakor personally and talk with him regulary, and he has made it clear that he would like photos of his artworks. Are there any specific things that need to be put in place, for example written evidence of Thakor allowing this? and if so how would I prove this.

Thanks for the advice Lennox Brian Miller (talk) 20:06, 16 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Hej Lennox Brian Miller, Great, in that case you can find the instructions under https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS . With the "Interactive Release Generator", it should be straightforward to generate the needed releases. Please make sure Thakor Patel understands that by releasing his artworks under a free licence, they can also be used by other people. You can find more informations about suitable licences for Wikipedia under https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Choosing_a_license . Feel free to ask me or other people on Wikipedia if you have anymore questions. I'll replace the deletion requests for the pictures with "permission pending", so they won't get deleted. Cheers, Andel (talk) 19:23, 16 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello again,
 * Thank you for replacing your deletion requests, it is highly appreciated. However, Thakor Patel, would not like his paintings to be available for free use by anyone. Is there any way for there to be a licence for it to have copyright by Thakor Patel, meaning that it can be displayed on Wikipidea whilst also not making it accessible for everyone to have access for use.


 * Thank you for your cooperation, Lennox Brian Miller (talk) 20:40, 16 September 2020 (UTC)


 * In general not. It is one of the core concepts of Wikipedia that its content is free (with some minor conditions, like attribution), so licences supported by Wikipedia allow the content to be reused. The English-language Wikipedia supports in some very specific cases the use of copyrighted images (see Non-free_content), but I honestly don't know if this would be applicable in this case. If so, it is very important that images are marked as "This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use." during the upload! All the images uploaded so far were marked as "licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence", which means they can be used anyone and for anything under the condition that she/he attributes the author. If this is unwanted, I'd suggest that you ask for those files to be deleted. Cheers, Andel (talk) 20:31, 16 September 2020 (UTC)