User talk:Horaceheidt
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Hello!
Please note that PDF is an extremely bad file format to publish images. As you may note, the file is very large (about 30 megabytes), and it's not even displayed inline. If you want, I can extract the scan of that photo from the PDF file an upload it in the same huge resolution and good quality in another format called JPG. As a JPG file, it would be some 10 megabytes large, and it could be displayed here and on other wikis, such as on the English Wikipedia.
Although I think it's pretty clear that such a huge scan must have done professionally and thus indeed comes from the Horace Heidt Foundation, it'd be good if you could send a confirmation e-mail to our permissions archive at the e-mail address permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. In that e-mail, you should confirm that the foundation indeed hold the copyrights on that image apparently done by a photographer named Bloom in Chicago and that you release the file File:Horace Heidt Sr. 1939-1941 001.pdf under the stated CC-BY-SA-3.0 and GFDL licenses.
Unfortunately, we get enough uploads of copyrighted pictures, and the e-mail procedure gives at least some ensurance that everything is allright. Your user name here alone doesn't help, as anyone could have registered under that name.
I hope you understand, and I thank you for providing such a fantastic image!
Cheers, Lupo 23:09, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- Please note that an explicit permission e-mail from the Horace Heidt Foundation for this image is also important because a color version of that same photo is being used on the cover of the "Mucical Nights" CD. We do require an explicit release sent to the aforementioned e-mail address for previously published materials. Lupo 17:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
File:Horace_Heidt_Sr._1939-1941_001.pdf has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |