User talk:AProudScotsman

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File source is not properly indicated: File:Police Scotland Mounted Branch in Tayside.jpg

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A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Police Scotland Mounted Branch in Tayside.jpg, was missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. The file probably has been deleted. If you've got all required information, request undeletion providing this information and the link to the concerned file ([[:File:Police Scotland Mounted Branch in Tayside.jpg]]). If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

Lupo 11:51, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I'll delete that. I've found it now, it's at https://www.flickr.com/photos/78630484@N04/10099803896/in/photostream/ . Notice that the license is CC-BY-NC-SA, which is a non-commercial license that we do not accept here. All images uploaded here must be freely usable by anyone for any legal purpose, including commercial uses. So we only accept licenses that do not have "non-commercial only" restrictions. So please do not re-upload it under the correct name (with Dundee instead of Tayside).

To learn more about licensing and what kind of images are OK here, see Commons:Licensing, Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter, and COM:FLICKR.

For future uploads from Flickr, please always give a source link back to the Flickr page. Lupo 12:09, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

You also wrote:

I'm confused as the images I've used are from Flickr, and the individual has given consent for the image to be used by others as long as he's mentioned which I have done. So can you give me some help and info and why what I have done is a "copyright violation"?

Let's take File:Police Scotland Armed Response.jpg as an example. I found that image on http://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/228813-three-people-due-in-court-following-armed-siege-at-inverness-flat/ where there is no indication of any free license (or "take it, but credit us"); instead, the site says at the bottom "Copyright © 2007–2014 STV. All rights reserved." So, taking that image and uploading it here under a free license is a copyright violation, even though you credited "STV.tv" as source. In general, anything you can find on the Internet is copyrighted and must not be copied, unless there's an explicit mention of some free license that allows doing so. Lupo 12:25, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

If you see a Flickr upload with either of these icons, they're unacceptable for use here: --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 13:27, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Police Scotland Ford Focus Estate.jpg

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   FDMS  4    13:26, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

The license looks good on this one, but please remember to put the full URL of where you found the photo in the source. I did it for you this time. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 13:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

@Lewis Hulbert: How? I had no Flickr results in Google Searchbyimage …    FDMS  4    13:37, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

@FDMS4: I found the author's Flickr and scrolled through his photostream until I found the image. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 13:39, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Police Service of Scotland Logo.gif

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Yours sincerely, JuTa 20:45, 20 May 2014 (UTC)