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File:Mohammad Shahbuddin.webp

File:Mohammad Shahbuddin.webp 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.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: taken from link in source which is non-free Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

DesiBoy101 (talk) 18:28, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

@DesiBoy101, It's not clear to me why was this picture was reported. I made sure to check the license of the article and it was CC BY 4.0 DEED. Isn't that good enough? Here's the source [1] of the image. If you check the footer of the site you can see that they've licensed their content under CC. Is there something I missed? Thanks. Blackout Sea (talk) 14:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey @DesiBoy101 I would really like a reply. I will reinstate the image a week later. Blackout Sea (talk) 18:48, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

@Blackout Sea: Even if the content has been stated as CC BY 4.0 in the footer, it will apply for the text content on the website and not the image. Reason being, if you reverse search the image, you can see that it has been on several media platforms well before this particular article was published. So, it is highly likely that the source you've mentioned above has taken it from one of the other websites. Whenever an image is taken from an online source, the images are explicitly released under a specific open license. Only then they're deemed fit to be uploaded to Commons, until they are in public domain by default, of course. DesiBoy101 (talk) 08:43, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Ah, thanks! I did a reverse search on yandex but nothing turned up. Doing it on google returns some results. I'll be more careful next time. Blackout Sea (talk) 12:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)