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

[David Gerard]

On 11 October 2013 20:58, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:

> 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?


I've just followed up with:

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Here are useful pages to read on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses

To summarise: it's a bit of a big thing to release a picture for
completely free reuse ... but in practice, it mostly works out OK.
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If they don't get it from that, I suspect it's hopeless ;-)


- d.