[Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

[John]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission is
from the otherside of the table but might be useful

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For this category of people we have OTRS:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS#Licensing_images:_when_do_I_contact_OTRS.3F
> :)
>
> If you want to cut the queue, just contact a volunteer to have the
> ticket processed.
>
> Strainu
>
> 2013/10/11 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> > I just got a phone call and followup email today asking about how to
> > upload a photo to be on a Wikipedia article.
> >
> > This has got to be an incredibly common request. What's a standardised
> > way to handle it?
> >
> > Here's the text I wrote back with:
> >
> > ===
> > OK - the key point with contributing a picture to Wikipedia, or rather
> > to Wikimedia Commons, is that you are contributing it to the world -
> > under a free licence.
> >
> > (You can't contribute a picture "for use in Wikipedia" - Wikipedia
> > doesn't accept those. It needs pictures of living people to be under a
> > licence where literally anyone can use it.)
> >
> > So, you need the person or body who owns the copyright in the picture
> > to contribute it under a free licence. This means you lose control
> > over the picture, but it does contribute it to the world. This does
> > not control unpleasant reuses - so be very sure you think this is a
> > good idea.
> >
> >    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Contributing_your_own_work
> >
> > This works quite well in my experience for promotional photos. It will
> > rapidly become *the* picture people use.
> >
> > Creative Commons by-sa is a good licence, I think - anyone can use it,
> > but anyone can reuse it.
> >
> > Once a picture is uploaded to Commons, it can be used on Wikipedia
> articles.
> > ===
> >
> > - But there's got to be a better text and/or page I could refer them to
> ...
> >
> > Assume the person this is for knows very little about Wikipedia or
> > content freedom.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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