User talk:CountryCousins1951

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 16:35, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

File:Country Cousins logo.jpg

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Motopark (talk) 23:36, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Country Cousins Ilfracombe.jpg

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Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Regarding your email - this is an issue about copyrights and who owns the image(s). In practice you do yourself few favours by pointing to the CC website as that very specifically sates "Copyright" on it. Images here must be freely licensed - it actually means that anyone anywhere can take your image and amend it and use it for their own purposes - many companies do not like the idea of that.

Equally as the image here is a composite one each image has a copyright held by the person who took or created the image. You will need to get them to send their permissions for the image to be hosted here. Alternatively, if any have been posted publicly, you can link to them assuming they are copyright free.

You can reply here - I will see it. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:38, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Caitlin

Okay so if I link to that we have used it on a twitter page https://twitter.com/CountryCousins_ and that it is our facebook page profile picture https://www.facebook.com/CountryCousinsIlfracombe/photos/a.193286114154563.1073741825.193284970821344/427477440735428/?type=1&theater will that make it more allowable?

It's just the Managing Director wants this specific photo on the page. CountryCousins1951 (talk) 12:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

In practice material from facebook (& twitter) is copyrighted - part of their t&cs is that anything uploaded to them they take a degree of ownership of (we routinely delete images from facebook on a daily basis). Maybe the most sensible way of handling it might be to try permission sent via COM:OTRS. Bear in mind (& maybe tell the MD) that the permission is irrevocably. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:57, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Plus - you should bear in mind the fact that the other images you have uploaded state "own work" when they are very obviously not the work of one person - you - which is what you are taking legal responsibility for here - sorry but... --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:59, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay but is it not the company taking responsibility for the pictures as all pictures were actually taken and designed by our company? How do other schools and companies manage this as surely there are other companies with articles on wiki and also social networking accounts? CountryCousins1951 (talk) 13:12, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid the issue here is not what other people do - that isn't something that concerns me or Commons. What does is the valid licensing of files hosted here that may be used freely by anyone anywhere. The images you uploaded may be used elsewhere in good faith on the basis that they are freely licensed and may be used, edited etc by others for their own purposes. If in a year or so the actual photographer comes along and states that they did not give you permission then there is a major legal problem. Effectively you loose ownership (& certainly control) of images uploaded here.

Looking at the other images then it is highly unlikely that you personally can freely license them as they are fairly obviously not the work of one person. Again the best approach - if the company wishes to upload them here and loose control of them will be to go via COM:OTRS. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:19, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay, well thanks for your help in any case. I will try contacting COM:OTRSCountryCousins1951 (talk) 13:23, 28 January 2015 (UTC)