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Wikimedia's volunteer response team (OTRS) handles copyright permissions, email inquiries from the public, reuse inquiries, article errors, and a wide range of non-public inquiries. The email service is operated and managed by a cross-project team of volunteers at the Meta-Wiki level and not by the English Wikipedia community. Actions by OTRS volunteers on English Wikipedia are ultimately subject to review by the Arbitration Committee. Please be aware that there is sometimes a backlog in processing tickets sent to the permissions-en queue. This backlog is currently 44 days.
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Norm Sartorius page, image copyright
The image NormSartoriusHomage2.jpg copyright release has been submitted to permissions. The rights hold holder is photographer Jim Osborn. He listed it as "NormSartoriusHomage.jpg" in his permission email. You can see that is it is the same image. Or I can rename it to correspond to his written permission.
Thx, Craig — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craiger19 (talk • contribs) 08:05, 12 October 2015 (UTC+9)
File:PaulosFarajRahho.png
Request OTRS check on this file. OTRS ticket was added by non-OTRS member (Chaldean), and I've found other mentions that this user has added fake OTRS tickets in the past - such as Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:صدام و چند آمریکایی.jpg. Kelly hi! 11:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Kelly: that OTRS ticket does exist but it does not contain permission to use those files. A great number of files have been similarly deleted on Commons; I'll delete this one too. Good catch. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:27, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Questionable copy of copyrighted information to an article with an old OTRS ticket.
A new account User:Jason Graves has recently copied verbatim from http://www.jasongraves.com/ to Jason Graves. The website states "© 2014 Jason W. Graves. Material from this website may not be copied or retransmitted without written consent of the author." The user has not responded to my request to clarify if he actually is Jason Graves, although it seems likely. The article has a seven-year-old OTRS ticket 2008120910029443 stating that Wikipedia was given permission to use copyrighted material. The account currently adding copyrighted material from the website was created just a few days ago and thus cannot be the same as the one which proved his identity and gave permission to use the copyrighted material. I'm not sure how this works.
- Does the original ticket still apply to new uploads after seven years?
- Can any user upload under that ticket or only the original requester?
- If not, can the new user prove his identity again and use that ticket with his new account?
- Should all the new copyrighted material be deleted until this is settled?
Meters (talk) 04:21, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Meters according to WP:COPYRIGHT, yes the copyrighted material needs to be removed. The exact text is If a page contains material which infringes copyright, that material – and the whole page, if there is no other material present – should be removed. See Wikipedia:Copyright violations for more information, and Wikipedia:Copyright problems for detailed instructions KoshVorlon 17:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Meters: the permission ticket does actually cover the material, however it is licenced exclusively under the GDFL licence - as the content has changed since then, and we now need dual licensing, this permission is no longer valid - they have not responded to out request to update the permission.
- @KoshVorlon: not always, in this case, there is permission to use the material on the Talk:Jason Graves - this was just a query to see if it's still valid. Just because the source says copyrighted does not mean that it hasn't also been released under a freer licence. Mdann52 (talk) 06:44, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Meters according to WP:COPYRIGHT, yes the copyrighted material needs to be removed. The exact text is If a page contains material which infringes copyright, that material – and the whole page, if there is no other material present – should be removed. See Wikipedia:Copyright violations for more information, and Wikipedia:Copyright problems for detailed instructions KoshVorlon 17:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
File:Bunyoro-king-ugandasolomonigurui.jpg
The use of this image appears to conflict Template:Non-free promotional: "Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project." The file has an OTRS ticket. I'd like to know if it specifies a free license and, if it doesn't, should the file be deleted. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 06:21, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Finnusertop: the ticket makes it clear they don't object to us using the image under a fair-use claim. IT appears that getting a replacement in practice is almost impossible, so this will have to do. Mdann52 (talk) 07:00, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- I've had extensive discussions on what the "almost all" in our WMF Resolution (wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy) means in terms of our WP:NFCC#1 and the consensus tends to be that it's extremely limited: only prisoners, fugitives and recluses are taken to be out of reach. For instance, we think that Kim Jong-un is within reach of photography. I am going to nominate the file in question for deletion under Rfu, Mdann52. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 07:08, 9 December 2015 (UTC)