User talk:Whoisjasonb

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:43, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Copyright
While you may represent these bands, and so conflict of interest aside, there's no indication that you can put those photos into the public domain. The photographer may hold the copyright for them. I added that comment to both of the images. Since you admit that you're just their manager and not the photographer, it's likely that you would have to provide proof that you hold the copyright on those images or that the person who produced them has sold the rights to you. Also, if the images ever appear in a publication and they are not attributed to Wikicommons, they would immediately come down and you're back where we started. This is why private photographs are preferred for this sort of thing.

Please allow the discussion related to the images to complete. If a commons admin decides that you can offer them up to the commons, and removes the deletion notice, then feel free to add the images back into the articles.

I'm not trying to block your activities. I am just trying to be mindful of the rules that govern Wikipedia. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:48, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Both photos are cleared for download and use. They are open and readily available @ audio.com/press and newsboys.com/press.


 * So it's clear that the images are part of a greater promotional effort.


 * http://www.inpop.com/mediakit/_newsboys/_godsnotdead/
 * http://audioa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/press_photo_color_low.jpg
 * Now it's up to the commons admins as to whether they were considered copyrighted prior to you uploading them or not. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:55, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I should make one thing clear: just because I've nominated the files for deletion does not mean that they will be deleted. I have alluded to that fact above, but I need to state it clearly. I have been right when nominating several files in the past, but I have also been wrong a few times as well. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:00, 13 December 2012 (UTC)


 * It appears that a commons admin agreed with me. Not that it helps, but I have a suggestion: upload images from the same photo shoots that are not part of your press kit. Wikipedia and Wikicommons are more concerned with someone suing them than they are with having glitzy websites. So if the images are not published elsewhere, then no one can say that the images are copyrighted. It's a really strange rule, but it's how they operate. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:35, 20 December 2012 (UTC)