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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 19:06, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

File tagging File:Megan R Carey.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Megan R Carey.jpg. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). Warning: unless the permission information is given, the file may be deleted after seven days. Thank you.

 

Túrelio (talk) 19:15, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Senorelegans, in case you got this image directly from the depicted person, you need to provide her confirmation that she has the copyright of this image (doesn't look like a selfie) and is willing to release it under the choosen free license, to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org . --Túrelio (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Túrelio, I asked the person in the photograph for a photo for explicit use on wikipedia and she sent me the photograph. It is also published on her personal lab page. Is there another license necessary in such cases? Thanks Senorelegans (talk) 19:24, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, neither on Commons nor on most Wikipedias a "permission (only) for Wikipedia" is accepted; see COM:L. Media, uploaded to Commons, need to be under a free license, that allows anybody to use them, provided the terms (usually just crediting the author) are met. As such a free license logically dimishes the possibility to sell the same image, a verified confirmation by the creator/rights-holder is required. The mostly recommended free license is the CC-BY-SA [1]. --Túrelio (talk) 20:02, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Ah got it. So I should ask her to email that email address that a CC-BY-SA license is ok. Is that not the license I chose upon upload? Is it possible to change it? Senorelegans (talk) 20:08, 5 January 2020 (UTC)