User talk:Rishiputra108

Copyright problem on Southwell Minster
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Help me!
Hello! I uploaded a short piece of text to the page for Southwell Minster, concerning the tympanum in the minster itself. A few days later, I saw that it had been removed and (on looking at the edits) saw that Diannaa had removed it due to copyright issues.

The material in question was written by Mary Curtis Webb, some years ago. Her daughter, Gillian Greenwood, edited the text and published it privately a few years ago (after her mother's death). The whole text is in the public domain, being available as a pdf file on the University of Ghent library's web site. A link to the download is available at the end of the page on Romanesque architecture.

Gillian also made the text available to the Northamptonshire Archaeologists, who published some extracts as articles in their journal. Meanwhile, Gillian discovered Wikipedia and asked me if I could upload 4 or 5 short articles to further disseminate her mother's ideas. I agreed and put these few lines of text up so that she could see what it would look like. I did not put up the reference details, to the Ghent website & her mother, as I planned to find out how to do that if and when she was happy with the appearance of the text. She had, incidentally, contacted the Northamptonshire Archaeologists and got written permission to upload the text.

Gillian is in her late 80s, and very nervous that she will not fulfill her promise to her mother to disseminate the information more widely. I have not yet told her of the deletion as I wish to become more informed myself before doing so. I'd be very grateful for advice; I am very conscious of the issue of copyright and did not believe that I was breaching it. As far as I was aware, copyright was held by Gillian Greenwood as the editor and publisher of her mother's work in 2012.

Please help me with...

Rishiputra108 (talk) 11:54, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * (sent by Helpmebot) may be able to help further but unfortunately adhering to copyright laws supersede the promise to disseminate information.  If Gillian is the copyright holder she can create a Wikipedia account and upload, giving consent for the copyright to be used.  StraussInTheHouse (talk) 17:08, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello Rishiputra108. Unfortunately the fact that the material was published online does not place it in the public domain, nor does the death of the author. We need to have documentation that shows the copyright holder (in this case, that would likely be the author's heirs) have given permission for the material to be copied to this website. Wikipedia has procedures in place for this purpose. Please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:37, 9 November 2018 (UTC)


 * You should add a (non-copyvio) section to Ransom theory of atonement, not WP:SPAM links elsewhere. Johnbod (talk) 15:10, 8 February 2021 (UTC)