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Copyright status: File:San Judas Tadeo Ribera (Prado).JPG edit

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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And also:

Yours sincerely, Ju Ta 20:27, 22 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Harry Flashman.jpg edit

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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A file that you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from Flickr, File:Harry Flashman.jpg, was found available on Flickr by an administrator or reviewer under the license Noncommercial (

), No derivative works (

), which isn't compatible with Wikimedia Commons, per the licensing policy. The file has been deleted. Commons:Flickr files/Appeal for license change has information about sending the Flickr user an appeal asking for the license to be changed. Only Flickr images tagged as

(CC BY),

(CC BY-SA),

(CC0) and

(PDM) are allowed on Wikimedia Commons. If the Flickr user has changed the license of the Flickr image, feel free to ask an administrator to restore the file, or start an undeletion request.

Ww2censor (talk) 13:42, 24 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Loves Monuments Spain 2016 is coming!

Dear Akiv,

As every year, Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain, an international photographic contest about cultural heritage in the Spanish territory, will start on next September 1st. On behalf of the Wikipedia community and Wikimedia España (WM-ES), and as a participant in former editions of the event, or in other photographic contests organized by WM-ES, we'd like to encourage you to participate in the 2016 edition. We do know that you've been keen on contributing your work to the free knowledge in the past and therefore believe that you'll be glad to help us again.

We want to inform you about a substantial change in the rules of the contest: this year only images of monuments or municipalities without previous photograph in Wikimedia Commons are accepted. To facilitate hunting monuments and municipalities without a free image, we have prepared a set of specific lists, which can be checked in the contest websites: wikilov.es/monuments or wikilm.es

If you have comments, questions or suggestions about the contest, they are more than welcome. You can leave them here.

We look forward to your free images!

Sincerely,

The team of Wiki Loves Monuments edition in Spain

File:GuillermodeBaskerville.jpg edit

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

File:GuillermodeBaskerville.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.

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This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: DVD cover art is not freely licensed.

Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Secondarywaltz (talk) 03:32, 1 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

File:No eran imprescindibles (Poster).jpg edit

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

File:No eran imprescindibles (Poster).jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.

The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.)

Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Yours sincerely, Ies (talk) 11:09, 25 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

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