User talk:Mara Kearney

Alvin Loving images
Hi! I'm just flagging that the images you added to the Alvin Loving article are likely not allowed on Commons due to copyright. Loving copyrighted much of his work, which means it cannot be uploaded to Commons in any form. Images of his copyrighted art should be uploaded directly to Wikipedia, not Commons, as fair use images. I re-added the fair use image you removed from the article, as the images you uploaded will likely be deleted if the works pictured are copyrighted. 19h00s (talk) 21:12, 2 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I understand why you put up the work I had taken down. The reason I took it down and put the other two works up has to deal with Al's art.  He didnt like the geometric work and would have prefered his collage work be shown as representative of his art.  The cube work is owned by the Metropolitan Museum.  The two works I uploaded are owned by Museum of Modern Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of  Fine Arts. I own the copyright as Al's widow.
 * I'll try and upload directly to Wikipedia, not Commons.
 * thanks,
 * Mara Mara Kearney (talk) 22:48, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ahh, I didn't realize you were the copyright owner! If that's true (and I don't mean to doubt you, just have to be cautious online), then you are in fact the one person with the legal right to upload images of Loving's work to Commons. But by doing so and publishing the images under a free license on Commons, you may be giving up some element of your control over the copyright. Obviously you are probably much more versed in the legalese as you're the rights holder, but releasing the images under a free license would mean that any party could use the images for any purpose (including, but not limited to, commercial use). That would mean a third party could theoretically print and sell the images, or use them for a business/to sell a product, and you as the rights holder to the underlying artworks could not claim copyright infringement. It's totally up to you if you want to keep the images on Commons, but I want you to be totally aware of what that could mean for your legal rights. 19h00s (talk) 00:14, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * (Just to clarify and explain more, the alternative here - uploading the images directly to Wikipedia as fair use - would not require you to give up any rights. Commons is only for completely free content, whereas Wikipedia can host fair use, non-free content that is under copyright. But fair use images of art uploaded directly to Wikipedia have to be greatly reduced in size to respect the copyright owner's right to sell high quality copies of their work.) 19h00s (talk) 00:58, 3 February 2024 (UTC)