Hbkitty

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Hbkitty!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Hbkitty!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 05:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

• Image:1881 Bk Jason.JPG was uncategorized on 14 October 2009.

File:South_Georgia_JASON_stamp.jpg

File:South_Georgia_JASON_stamp.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.

 

Ww2censor (talk) 16:24, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

For: * With all due respect, I think this image should be considered as fair use. As it clearly states in my rational. It is believed that the use of postage stamp, to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design) on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.

Further reasoning is for it to qualify as fair use is there is no possible commercial disadvantage to the copyright holder by using this image of a stamp in a Wikipedia article because the stamp's value is in the physical stamp, not the design.

It is also clear under UK law that the Crown copyright is waived and no formal licence is required in this instance as stated on the The UK Government web site regarding Waiver of Crown copyright. From the web site:

(Some Crown copyright material is waived. This means that although Crown copyright is asserted no formal licence is required to re-use. The waiver applies to specific categories of material where it is in Government's interests to encourage unrestricted use.)

The only conditions required are the following: You may re-use waiver material free of charge without requiring a formal licence provided that it is:

  1. acknowledged
  2. not used in a misleading way
  3. reproduced accurately and kept up to date

I believe that I have met all these conditions and would ask that the file in question be removed from the deletion list forthwith. Sincerely, (Hbkitty (talk) 18:13, 24 October 2009 (UTC))

For: * Furthermore, Exceptions to copyright

(As with many other countries the UK defines an exception to copyright infringement for artistic works on public display. Section 62 of the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 states that it is not an infringement of copyright to film, photograph, broadcast or make a graphic image of a building, sculpture, models for buildings or work of artistic craftsmanship if that work is permanently situated in a public place or in premises open to the public.)

This stamp is displayed in the museum in Grytviken so therefor this exception clearly applies.

(Hbkitty (talk) 02:33, 25 October 2009 (UTC))

File:Carl_Anton_Larsen_JASON_Stamp.jpg

File:Carl_Anton_Larsen_JASON_Stamp.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.

 

Ww2censor (talk) 16:26, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

• With all due respect, I think this image should be considered as fair use. As it clearly states in my rational. It is believed that the use of postage stamp, to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design) on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.

Further reasoning is for it to qualify as fair use is there is no possible commercial disadvantage to the copyright holder by using this image of a stamp in a Wikipedia article because the stamp's value is in the physical stamp, not the design.

It is also clear under UK law that the Crown copyright is waived and no formal licence is required in this instance as stated on the The UK Government web site regarding Waiver of Crown copyright. From the web site:

(Some Crown copyright material is waived. This means that although Crown copyright is asserted no formal licence is required to re-use. The waiver applies to specific categories of material where it is in Government's interests to encourage unrestricted use.)

The only conditions required are the following: You may re-use waiver material free of charge without requiring a formal licence provided that it is:

  1. acknowledged
  2. not used in a misleading way
  3. reproduced accurately and kept up to date

I believe that I have met all these conditions and would ask that the file in question be removed from the deletion list forthwith. Sincerely, (Hbkitty (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2009 (UTC))

For: * Furthermore, Exceptions to copyright

(As with many other countries the UK defines an exception to copyright infringement for artistic works on public display. Section 62 of the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 states that it is not an infringement of copyright to film, photograph, broadcast or make a graphic image of a building, sculpture, models for buildings or work of artistic craftsmanship if that work is permanently situated in a public place or in premises open to the public.)

This stamp is displayed in the museum in Grytviken so therefor this exception clearly applies.

(Hbkitty (talk) 02:34, 25 October 2009 (UTC))