Lightningbit
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You can't just take the images from the artists web site and claim them as your own. CambridgeBayWeather Talk 20:10, 13 September 2009 (UTC) As far as I know, I did not claim them as mine. (I cannot check anymore as they are already gone). On the last upload attempt, I did indicate that I had the artist's permission to redistribute the images, but I cannot check (or correct as suggested above) because they are already gone again. Lightningbit (talk) 22:52, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Lightningbit,
indepedent of the question about claimed authorship, you need to provide written permission by the photographer or rights holder before uploading copyrighted images under a free license to Commons. If you have already a permission from Mr. Van Campen, then this should be easy. Just go to Commons:Email templates, take the permission template, enter the filenames (you may take the names of the deleted files, as they can easily be restored by any admin), enter the license and mail all to the photographer or rights holder and ask him to put a date and his name under it and mail it back to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. As soon as you have done this and have a positive response from Mr. Van Campen, drop me a note and I will restore the images. Some time after the permission email has arrived at OTRS, a volunteer will check the permission and add a so-called OTRS-ticket (sort of clearance) to each of the images. --Túrelio (talk) 06:15, 14 September 2009 (UTC)