User talk:Rehanyazdani

Hi there

Welcome to Wikipedia. I see you've been having a look at some of our cricket-related articles. Just thought I'd let you know about WP:Cricket, which is the Cricket WikiProject. If you're interested, you're more than welcome to sign up there. Also, in case you haven't seen it yet, you may be interested in Portal:Cricket. All the best, jguk 17:36, 7 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Welcome from me as well. Just one point, though - you can't actually upload pictures to wikipedia unless you're absolutely sure that there's no copyright on them. In the case of Image:Javed Miandad.jpg, for example, this George Herringshaw would probably still hold the copyright, so we can't use it for a free project such as wikipedia. Sam Vimes 17:51, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

You've also added a profile written by Kamran Abbasi to the Moin Khan page. Copyright presumably rests with either Abbasi or Cricinfo. Could you let us know whether you have permission for us to use the text? jguk 18:59, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

(replying to note left on my talk page): No, a picture by Reuters would not be acceptable. The only thing that would be is something that explicitly says it's in the public domain, something which is more than 50 years old, or something that you took yourself and are willing to license out for free use by everyone. Sorry, but that's the rules unless we want to get a hefty lawsuit on our hands. Sam Vimes 05:54, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually Sam got it slightly wrong. Copyright only expires 70 years after the creator's death, and where the person holding the copyright is unknown, 70 years following the 31 December in the year in which the work was created. As you can see, it doesn't make things easy for us, but it does prevent WP being sued out of existence, jguk 06:56, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

I've now added them all to Wikipedia:Copyright_problems. As Sam Vimes said, in practice you can only include pictures that you've taken yourself. Unfortunate, but that's the law. I hope this won't deter you from making other contributions to Wikipedia, and especially the cricket articles. Stephen Turner 15:59, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Imran Khan picture
Hello again Rehavnyazdani,

You uploaded Image:Imran Khan.jpg, and you said it was public domain. Can you please say why you think it is public domain? As we all said in the previous discussion, a picture isn't public domain unless the person who took the photo has explicitly said it is. What evidence do you have in this case?

Thanks,

Stephen Turner 20:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Non-free use disputed for Image:Lane College.gif
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