Image talk:Beychok's Cover.jpg

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[edit] I don't understand why the license is in dispute

I uploaded the subject image on August 29,2006 (well over a year ago). It is a scan of a book cover. I am the author of that book as well as the publisher and I drew the original artwork for that book cover. That was clearly stated when I uploaded the image.

Earlier this evening, some bot added a tag which states:

This image or media has a non-free use rationale that is disputed because of the following concern:invalid rationale per WP:NFCC#10c The name of each article in which fair use is claimed for the item, and a separate fair-use rationale for each use of the item, as explained at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. The rationale is presented in clear, plain language, and is relevant to each use.

I don't understand what this is all about. I don't even know what a "fair use rationale" is.

At the time when I upload the image, the license tag on the edit page read GFDL-self. Sometime between then and now, that was changed (by another bot, I think) to read GFDL-self-with-disclaimers. Could that be what has caused this problem? I did not make that change nor have I ever claimed "fair use" ... whatever that means.

I am the creater of the artwork for that book cover and I want to release it to Wikipedia without any restrictions or disclaimers. It is that simple! Please remove the tag that was added today by Betacommandbot as well as the tag added by User:Liftarn on September 6, 2006. - mbeychok (talk) 05:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

After I posted this problem at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, User:TEB728 removed the two tags and all is well now. - mbeychok (talk) 06:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)