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Again, welcome! UtherSRG 05:23, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image (Image:Eris and dysnomia.jpg)
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Image:Seascape after sunset.jpg.
[edit]Hi, I have moved your good image of blue hour over to Commons and nominated it as an FP. Could you please supply some location or geodata in order to increase its value for other Wikimedia projects? Thanks, Freedom to share (talk) 17:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Sure, the location is +38.7899,-9.4927 ; Just north of Cape Roca, as I had described before. Rnbc (talk) 21:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Good news, the image was promoted to a Wikimedia Commons featured picture. I congratulate you on this success and encourage you to attempt and nominate more images for Commons Featured Picture Candidates. Nice work, Freedom to share (talk) 15:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC) (Sorry for taking so long to bring this news to you btw)
- Oh... thanks! I've been very short in time to make decent photos lately... Anyway, I have a gallery in flickr, and all photos are under a "creative commons" license. But I'll share the best of them on commons, if they have interesting content, besides being just pretty pictures. I would love to do more documental photos, of for botany articles, for example... Rnbc (talk) 01:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Gasometer
[edit]I've made an SVG image of Image:Gasometer.png; you can find it at Image:Gasometer.svg. I've placed the SVG version in the article. Would you object if I deleted the PNG? —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 23:20, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- You can delete it if you want, no problem. Rnbc (talk) 10:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Kaleidoscope tube photos
[edit]Hello. Image:Kaleidoscope tube.jpg and its cropped version Image:800px-Kaleidoscope-tube-modified.jpg are derivative works of the pictures on the tube. Thus they are copyright violations unless the author of the pictures on the tube has died more than 70 years ago (or released them as free), if you’ve made the photo in Portugal. Is there anything to save the images from deletion? Thanks. --AVRS (talk) 17:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Erm... yes, I took the photos myself, and in Portugal a photo of a product used to ilustrate a concept or a generic class of products, or even the product itself (in a review, for example) is not a copyright violation, the same way a photo of a building is not a copyright violation: it's not the product itself, and it's not trying to copy the product itself, it's only an image of the product. Besides, the owner of the copyrights on the tube, Majora, went bankrupt years ago and ceased to exist. Rnbc (talk) 23:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
BTW, just asked my father about that kaleidoscope: it's from 1940 or so... and the manufacturer, Majora, ceased to exist more than 10 years ago. Also, as I said (and I just informed myself), publishing a picture of a product is not a copyright violation, unless the product and the photography are substantially the same thing, which is definetly not the case in this situation, so just move on! Rnbc (talk) 03:48, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 19:51, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
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