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

[Michael Peel]

On 11 Oct 2013, at 20:52, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 October 2013 20:49, 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.
> 
> 
> Yes, there's that :-)
> 
> I suppose I'm wondering more about how to explain free content, in
> most of its frightening implications, to people who I strongly suspect
> have never even considered the concept of putting a work completely
> beyond their control. Something in less than several kilobytes.

Can't you point them towards:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses
to explain a lot of this?

Thanks,
Mike