User:Storye book/editing/Assisting copyright-holders to give permission for uploads

Assisting copyright-holders to give permission for image uploads to Commons

Note: the following has worked so far, but is liable to updating.

Sending the email

For the following to work, your own photographs, OR someone else's photographs of your own 2D artworks, need to have been already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, with a copyright licence and a {{Permission pending}} template, plus details of the name of the artwork, the name of the author and the name of the copyright owner (besides usual info requirements such as source).

Send a permission email to the Volunteer Response Team - permissions-commons@wikimedia.org - giving all of the following if possible, within seven days of the image upload(s) (otherwise the files may be deleted):

• The name of the artwork(s) and the filename(s) of the images concerned,
• The url(s) of the image(s) OR of their Commons category
• Name of author/artist/creator
• Name of copyright owner
• Exact name of the copyright licence to be used.

An example of a suitable licence is: "Cc-by-sa-4.0" An example of that licence as it will appear on the page can be seen here: Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The above is an easy way to confirm permission. A more fiddly way (but useful if you require more precise info) is to check out the following:

• Commons:Volunteer Response Team (VTR) and
• Commons:Email_templates/Consent.

Example

The "easy way" as written out above was used by the professional photographer who kindly donated three of his valuable photographs for "my" article The Hatchling.