> Just please make sure that whoever you talk to is actually authorized to
> legally donate the rights to the images. We've had several cases where
> someone at a company has donated a collection of images, but we later had to
> delete them all because the representative didn't actually control the
> rights. PETA and Cafe Magazine are 2 examples I remember off the top of my
> head.

Oh, ouch. Do we have writeups on said cases? What would constitute
sufficient evidence?

Another well known example is the Ubisoft video games screenshots case.

Following an OTRS contact in December 2005 [1], Commons assumed Ubisoft allowed users to publish screenshots of their games under a free license ({{Attribution}}). ~750 files were uploaded in four years.

There have been three deletion requests, the first two inconclusive, and the third in November 2009 [2]. I contacted Ubisoft HQ at the beginning of 2010 with a precise report on the situation, seeking an agreement. They answered they never knew of this deal, and did not wish to publish anything under a free license. Files were deleted.

Also, if you are looking for successful cases in this field, we curate a gallery of free screenshots of commercial VG [3], as well as a (sometimes updated) summarized list of successful agreements regarding video games companies [4]

[1] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Avatar/Ubisoft/OTRS_thread>
[2] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Template:Attribution-Ubisoft_3>
[3] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Historical_and_commercial_video_games>
[4] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/VG_screenshots>