User talk:Jamesb01

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Hello, Jamesb01! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Eric Wester 23:24, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Uploads

I came across your addition to 24 Hours of Le Mans of a painting. Although your uploads claim they are released into the public domain for non-commercial purposes, a simple click on the website provided shows that "All Rights Reserved" is clearly stated at the bottom. Therefore these images do not appear to be usable by Wikipedia. I've therefore removed the picture from 24 Hours of Le Mans, and other paintings you have uploaded will have to be removed as well. The359 20:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

REPLY:

I just found this page and am starting to understand how everything works. BTW: Very nice work on your LeMans article. -- User:Jamesb01

This is the same reply as shown below to another user:

Sorry, It took me awhile to figure out the license verbage. I can share the images but only at the resolution (web-size or smaller) that one would download from Wikipedia. I hope this is allowable. I have cropped the images and removed the "credit" lines. Thank you, User:Jamesb01 18:25, 18 August 2007.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jamesb01" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jamesb01 (talk • contribs) 01:53:42, August 19, 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Duplicate images uploaded

Thanks for uploading Image:Jim Clark at Mosport-cc.jpg. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Jim Clark at Mosport.jpg. The copy called Image:Jim Clark at Mosport.jpg has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action.

This is an automated message- you have not upset or annoyed anyone, and you do not need to respond. In the future, you may save yourself some confusion if you supply a meaningful file name and refer to 'my contributions' to remind yourself exactly which name you chose (file names are case sensitive, including the extension) so that you won't lose track of your uploads. For tips on good file naming, see Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions about this notice, or feel that the deletion is inappropriate, please contact User:Staecker, who operates the robot account. Staeckerbot 15:45, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images as promotion

It appears as if you are adding images to articles primarily to promote a commercial entity. The guidelines at WP:IUP state, in part, Don't put credits in images themselves. WP:COI may also be relevant. JNW 00:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

REPLY:

I have removed the credit lines from the images. Thank you, User:Jamesb01 18:29, 18 August 2007

  • Credits removed, but without independent sources for the Owen article, and with the simultaneous planting of the subject's paintings in multiple articles, the conclusion that this is primarily a promotional undertaking is unavoidable. JNW 05:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proof of copyright

All the images you have uploaded are claimed to be under Creative Commons 2.5, requiring attribution of the author. However your permission for pictures has changed multiple times, with you uploading pictures to different licenses each time.

However the link you provide as a source specifically states at the bottom "Copyright © 2006. Owen Art Studios Inc. All rights reserved." This does not appear to agree with your claim that these photos are released under Creative Commons. I therefore ask what proof you have that the artist of these paintings, Beacham Owen, has in fact released his works under these licenses. Please respond to this request, because as it stands now your pictures may be a copyright violation. The359 02:58, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

REPLY:

Sorry. It took me awhile to figure out the license verbage. I can share the images (I own them and they are reg. with the U.S. Library of Congress) but only at the resolution (or smaller) that one would download from Wikipedia. I hope this is allowable. I have cropped the images and removed the "credit" lines. Thank you, User:Jamesb01 18:25, 18 August 2007.

I do not see how you can "own" the images if you are not Beacham Owen, especially when Beacham Owen's website says that all rights are reserved. Nor do I see what the Library of Congress has to do with anything (why would motorsports paintings be in there?). I know of no license that allows someone to own only low resolution copies of paintings that are copyrighted, unless you are trying to claim that you can upload these images as Fair Use. If you are trying to claim Fair Use, I do not believe these pass as Fair Use since most of these articles already have paintings, or can have free alternatives. The359 02:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Policies and guidelines

It might be helpful to read the "policies and guidelines" , as excerpted above, especially the following:

All have relevance to this issue. Thanks, JNW 20:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Dear uploader: The media file you uploaded as Image:Hayden_and_Rossi.jpg has been listed for speedy deletion because you selected a copyright license type implying some type of restricted use, such as for non-commercial use only, or for educational use only or for use on Wikipedia by permission. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, this is in fact not the case[1][2]. Please do not upload any more files with these restrictions on them, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. See our non-free content guidelines for more more information.

If you created this media file and want to use it on Wikipedia, you may re-upload it (or amend the image description if it has not yet been deleted) and use the license {{GFDL-self}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, or use {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain.

If you did not create this media file but want to use it on Wikipedia, there are two ways to proceed. First, you may choose one of the fair use tags from this list if you believe one of those fair use rationales applies to this file. Second, you may want to contact the copyright holder and request that they make the media available under a free license.

If you have any questions please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you. Jusjih 16:53, 8 October 2007 (UTC)