Brandmeister

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Permission to use your image

Hi Brandmeister, I would like to use an image you retouched of The Great Wall of China found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Wall_of_China_at_Jinshanling-edit.jpg in a brazilian TV serie entitled "Critical Uncertainties". Please email me at teka.carbonell@gmail.com so we can talk a little bit more about my project. Thanks, Teka.

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Yours sincerely, Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:56, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

File:Customized racing car.jpg and File:Customized racing car - front.jpg

It's a Nissan 180SX or 200SX (S13) - unfortunately those are separate categories so I've put it in Nissan vehicles for now. The rear lights are from a 180SX, but they may be part of the modification. Peter James (talk) 23:22, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I asked at WP's Refdesk before upload, but folks there were uncertain. Brandmeister (talk) 23:24, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Spanish currency

Brandmeister, I thought you'd like to know that I started at discussion at Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Is Spanish currency really okay? regarding additions you made to Commons:Currency. Thanks. --Ahecht (talk) 16:40, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

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File:Tupac Shakur wax figure at Madame Tussauds.jpg

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G I Chandor (talk) 07:45, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Reminder: Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2016 is open!

You are receiving this message because you voted in R1 of the 2016 Picture of the Year contest.

Dear Brandmeister,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2016 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eleventh edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2016) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

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Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:Gods of Egypt advert column.jpg

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BevinKacon (talk) 21:50, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2018 is open!

Dear Brandmeister,

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

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File:Yandex Notre-Dame fire logo.jpg

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B dash (talk) 08:02, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

File:Madaba map.jpg

Hi, are you the photographer of File:Madaba map.jpg? The file is dated August 2005, has been attributed to you in 2008 by (now inactive) User:Gusgus as an import from English Wikipedia. The license of "our" file is PD old, based on the depicted mosaic's age. But the file rather seems to be a contemporary photo whose photographer is not dead for 70 years or more. Months later, someone else added the source http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/dbcourses/islamic/large/madaba_map.jpg www.mcah.columbia.edu (at Wayback Archive). Columbia University's dbcourses database/Visual Resources Collection had very specific requirements and borrowed slides to staff and students only for very specific purposes. There is no hint that the materials were released under free licenses. The Wayback snapshot is dated April 2005, earlier than the date of "our" file. Can you help clarify the copyright status of this file? Thank you! --Martina talk 04:21, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Martina. As per our article Madaba Map, the map dates to the 6th century AD, so in File:Madaba map.jpg I've adjusted the tag to Template:PD-old-100 accordingly (as the map's author died over 100 years ago). The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". Brandmeister (talk) 21:40, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Brandmeister, thanks. Yes, that's WMF's position. If you are not the photographer the author field needs to state "unknown" right? --Martina talk 05:47, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

The author field is both for the person who created the original work (the map in this case) and the photographer. In both cases they are unknown anyway, so I've tweaked accordingly. Brandmeister (talk) 09:32, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! --Martina talk 19:06, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

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File:Joe Biden billboard, Warsaw.jpg

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Copyright status: File:Ford Transit firefighting vehicle 517M55.jpg

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Autopatroller

Hi, I gave you the Autopatroller right. Yann (talk) 10:12, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, appreciated. Brandmeister (talk) 11:49, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Dorothy Anstett, Miss USA, 1968

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Thanks, Yann (talk) 10:15, 10 March 2024 (UTC)