Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ??

Felix expect a follow up email from Theresa ( she'll be in contact with all the user groups as well) to find out how far they are with the recommendations/proporsals/decisions taken from the indaba.

On 04.03.2015 21:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote:

Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you
please rephrase this statement?

"But, as a
reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the
"photograph", not the subject who is photographed."

You have written on Yann's talk page
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever

"Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them online on commons.wikimedia.org.

But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not the celebrity.

Emmanuel

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