User talk:Raza0007/Archive 1

Welcome

Hello, Raza0007, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --Kralizec! (talk) 12:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright

Hi, Raza0007. I notice that you've uploaded a few images under the GFDL licence, with yourself indicated as the author. Are you the photographer who took these pictures? If not, then you must cite a source which released these photos under a compatible licence. —Michael Z. 2008-09-16 20:02 z

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Michael, these images that I recently uploaded are free as they were taken by the media wing of the military of Pakistan and then released to public. All missile tests in Pakistan are conducted at unknown locations and private news channls are not allowed there. The military takes these images and then releases it to public as a proof/publicity of the test. They do not sell them. These images are essentially free. Some websites then take these free images and put their own watermarks on them. The images with watermarks may or may not be taken as copyrighted but these images are actually free and these websites do not have the right to copyright them. When I was uploading these on wikipedia I could not figure out an appropriate copyright tag. I do not own copyrights to these so I can not publish it under "GDFL-self". The only appropriate tag that applied to these images was the "GDFL" tag. If you know of an appropriate tag, please guide me as I could not figure it out my self.

The picture of Al-Khalid tank is also free and no one holds rights to it. No one will come claiming copyright violation.

{Raza0007 | Talk} 15:27, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay.

For “source” you should enter the creator of the image, Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations (mentioned at Getty Images) or whichever agency produced them, with a URL if there is one.

The licence tag should reflect whatever terms the image is released under by its creator. If it is not released into the public domain then it remains copyrighted by the creator, and you can't distribute them with your own choice of licence. If it is released with permission to use in certain ways, then the licence should reflect that. Some governments have blanket statements on the websites or in their laws (e.g., all US gov't and military documents are PD, usable for anything; all Canadian gov't docs are released with permission for non-commercial reproduction, so not suitable for republication under Wikipedia's GPL).

General copyright information is at WP:C. There is a page about copyrighted publicity photos (Wikipedia:Publicity photos), but it is not official policy. Released photos of classified tests which cannot be replaced with other photos are probably usable under fair use (Wikipedia:Non-free content), to illustrate the subject of the article about it only.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a note. Good luck. —Michael Z. 2008-09-17 19:14 z

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Give me 24-48 hrs and I will fix the problem

{Raza0007 | Talk} 15:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

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Michael, I have modified one of the image that I uploaded with a proper license that should suffice for its use here on Wikipedia. Have a look at it [[1]]. Let me know if it is okay. I will then modify the remaining three images in a similar way. I have left the GFDL license tag as well, if someone is uncomfortable with the Attribution license, they can use the GFDL one.

{Raza0007 | Talk} 15:23, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

File:Al-Khalid.jpg listed for deletion on Wikimedia Commons

An image or media file that you uploaded locally, File:Al-Khalid.jpg, which was transferred to the Wikimedia Commons, has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests. Please see the discussion to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Wikimedia Commons is a central repository for freely licensed media used by all Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. Please be aware that policies on Commons are different than what is used on Wikipedia, including rules only allowing images that can be used for any purpose, and that images must be free or in the public domain in the United States and its country of origin (if different). Thank you. Martin H. (talk) 11:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)