Czsheehan

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Image uploads

Hello,

Thank you for your image uploads, however as Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, I would like to investigate the copyright status of some of your uploads. For the following uploads you claim you are the copyright holder of the work in the licence tag you have used, but you have not given a source. Can you please state where these images are from, for instance, are they from a website, or are these picture you took yourself using a camera?

• File:RWHS Homecoming.jpeg
• File:RWHS AgScience FFA Earth Day.jpeg
• File:AgScience FFA Earth Day 2.jpeg
• File:Rwhsmarchingband.jpg
• File:Rwhshockey.jpg — CT Cooper (18:33, 3 September 2010), — (continues after insertion below.)

I am the FFA advisor and Ag Science teacher at Red Wing High School. They are pictures taken by myself, or staff members in my department. We are giving our permission for their release. Czsheehan (talk) 01:32, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

First, thanks for responding. Okay, since it is clear that there is no copyright infringement, I have marked them as the work of the uploader. I note that you have indicated that you work for the school. There is no rule against editors editing articles when they have connections to the article's subject, and the edits you have made to the school article generally follow the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy, but I would advice you to read the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest guideline anyway for the advice it gives. By the way, I have slightly re-indented/re-formatted your comments so I and others can read them more easily; I hope you don't mind. By the way, please sign your posts at the end of your messages, rather than at the start. CT Cooper · talk 16:33, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

For the following images you have sourced them to someone other than yourself, but have not provided any evidence of permission to indicate that the author/school has actually released the image under the license given. I have hence marked these images as lacking evidence of permission, please follow the instructions given on the template added to avoid deletion.

• File:Red Wing High School Sports Logo.gif
• File:RWHS Daily Schedule.pdf — CT Cooper (18:33, 3 September 2010), — (continues after insertion below.)

Again, I work at the school. I have sent the following message to permissions-en@wikimedia.org

I received to following tag for images:

• File:Red Wing High School Sports Logo.gif
• File:RWHS Daily Schedule.pdf

"This file is missing evidence of permission. It is sourced to someone other than the uploader and while a copyright tag has been applied, there is no proof that the author agreed to license the file under the given license. Unless a link to a webpage with an explicit permission is provided, or an email from the copyright owner is sent or forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, the image will be deleted after Friday, 10 September 2010. Please remove this template if a link to a webpage with an explicit permission is provided, or a tag with a volunteer response team ticket number has been added.

With a user making the following comments on my User Talk page.

"For the following images you have sourced them to someone other than yourself, but have not provided any evidence of permission to indicate that the author/school has actually released the image under the licence given. I have hence marked these images as lacking evidence of permission, please follow the instructions given on the template added to avoid deletion."

- I work for Red Wing High School. I teach Agricultural Science and am the FFA Advisor. I am specifically working with our technology committee to update and improve our Wikipedia page for Red Wing High School. The Block Schedule image was designed by a committee I sat on. The schedule is distributed to all of our staff and is even available on our homepage online. I have permission to upload it.

- Our school mascot image was redesigned this year by our Activities office, again which I represent.

If anything the logo would qualify as:

This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law.

Even so, it wouldn't be copyright infringement as I am a representative of the organization.

Please remove the mark for deletion. I will provide any further information or permission necessary. I'm trying very hard as a representative of Red Wing High School to add meaningful content and information to the wikipedia page. I understand that the process for uploading images needs to be complicated to protect copy rights, but in this case, it is appropriate for the images to be added.

--

Christopher Z. Sheehan

Agricultural Science Instructor / FFA Advisor

Red Wing High School

Czsheehan (talk) 01:32, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Your message has been received, so the images are not in danger of being deleted for the time being. You may need to send another e-mail back to confirm evidence of permission, in particular explicitly making clear that the images are being released into the public domain (all rights released) as the tags state. CT Cooper · talk 16:33, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

You also uploaded the following images under the claim that they are the work of US Federal Government, and hence in the public domain, using {{PD-USGov}}. However the source you have given links to the Minnesota Department of Education, which is part of a state government, not the federal government. State government works are usually excluded from this law, however Minnesota appears to be an exception, so I have switched the template on these image to {{PD-MNGov}}. The website itself however claims that the material on there is copyrighted, so I may ask for outside opinions on the copyright status of these images.

• File:Rwhsmcas2010-math.gif
• File:Rwhsmcas2010-reading.gif
• File:Rwhsmcas2010-science.gif
• File:Rwhsmcas2010.gif — CT Cooper (18:33, 3 September 2010), — (continues after insertion below.)

Graduation Assessment Test Scores are public data. I would suggest that Minnesota's exception "The Minnesota Data Practices Act provides that "All government data collected, created, received, maintained or disseminated by a government entity shall be public unless classified by statute, or temporary classification pursuant to section 13.06, or federal law, as nonpublic or protected nonpublic, or with respect to data on individuals, as private or confidential." Minnesota Statute Section 13.03, subdivision 1." upholds that. But if outside opinions suggest this is not the case I will contact the MN Dept. of Education.Czsheehan (talk) 01:32, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes I agree, I don't see any reason why these images would not be covered by the Minnesota Data Practices Act, so I'm not planning to take further action. CT Cooper · talk 16:33, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks in advance. CT Cooper · talk 18:33, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Red Wing High School.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Red Wing High School.jpg, which you've sourced to Principal Beth Borgen. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. I appreciate from the above you are trying to sort out permissions, it may help to tag the image with Template:OTRS pending to indicate that the a permission e-mail has been sent. MilborneOne (talk) 21:09, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Yep, I sent a message to Permissions. So did Beth Borgen. Czsheehan (talk) 07:42, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Rwhsmcas2010.gif

Thank you for uploading File:Rwhsmcas2010.gif. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:38, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Please note, this was previously tagged as being in the public domain due to it being a work of the Minnesota government. This appears to have been a mistaken assumption about Minnesota works, and so the license was removed. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:38, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Rwhsmcas2010.gif

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Rwhsmcas2010.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. VernoWhitney (talk) 16:49, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

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