User talk:Rschwa99

Hi! I'm a student at Johns Hopkins University. I will be editing Wikipedia as part of a course called Freshmen Seminar: Hopkins Medicine

License tagging for File:Alfredblalock.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Alfredblalock.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

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License tagging for File:Bluebaby.jpg
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Image copyrights
Hi Rschwa99, unless you have the permission of the copyright holder to do so, you cannot tag an image with a licensing tag that purports to give us permission to use it. If you took a photograph with your camera, you own the copyright to it. I can't come along, take that photo from you, and then claim to all the world that they have my permission to use it - I can't give permission to use what I do not own. File:Alfredblalock.jpg is very likely in the public domain by virtue of its age. If this was his official school photo from Johns Hopkins Medical School and was published in a school yearbook in 1922, then the image is no longer subject to copyright protection and could be tagged with PD-US. Or if it was ever published without a copyright notice prior to 1978 then it is public domain. Unfortunately, the source website does not give us sufficient information about the provenance of this photo to know and they claim that it is still copyrighted, so we have to go with that, barring other information. --B (talk) 12:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)