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User talk:Denniss

‎Copyright on Wikimedia
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Obviously my experience over the last few years has been almost exclusively on Wikipedia and not Wikimedia. I was unaware that copyright violations were ok and not an issue over on Wikimedia. So for clarification, unlike on Wikipedia, I am able to upload any image I want, regardless of copyright status, so long as I add a tag saying I own it or whoever owns it has released it under an appropriate license? Obviously copyright law is the same, but I am wondering if Wikimedia is really that unconcerned with the copyright status of files uploaded here? I don't check Wikimedia unless I have a reason to, so any response would be much more quickly seen by myself and responded to on my Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Booth talk page] rather than on here. I look forward to your enlightenment on the issue. -[[User:Aaron Booth|Aaron Booth]] ([[User talk:Aaron Booth|talk]]) 03:41, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Obviously my experience over the last few years has been almost exclusively on Wikipedia and not Wikimedia. I was unaware that copyright violations were ok and not an issue over on Wikimedia. So for clarification, unlike on Wikipedia, I am able to upload any image I want, regardless of copyright status, so long as I add a tag saying I own it or whoever owns it has released it under an appropriate license? Obviously copyright law is the same, but I am wondering if Wikimedia is really that unconcerned with the copyright status of files uploaded here? I don't check Wikimedia unless I have a reason to, so any response would be much more quickly seen by myself and responded to on my Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Booth talk page] rather than on here. I look forward to your enlightenment on the issue. -[[User:Aaron Booth|Aaron Booth]] ([[User talk:Aaron Booth|talk]]) 03:41, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

:Please file a deletion request for a file if you believe it's not own work of the uploader, just tagging files as no permission without any reason is not the way to go. --[[User:Denniss|Denniss]] ([[User talk:Denniss#top|talk]]) 12:42, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

:Please file a deletion request for a file if you believe it's not own work of the uploader, just tagging files as no permission without any reason is not the way to go. --[[User:Denniss|Denniss]] ([[User talk:Denniss#top|talk]]) 12:42, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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:"Own work" is very misunderstood and greatly abused by many uploaders to Wikimedia Commons. There is resistance to reduce this problem at the point of upload because some believe we should be welcoming and make it as easy as possible to upload files with as few roadblocks and as little instruction as possible... because many uploaders don't really care about the rules. That view also suggests that once all these improperly attributed files are uploaded, it is up to ''other'' editors to clean up the mess... and those who may not wish to are simply lazy. (Personally I think this view is irresponsible and Commons should be more than just a popular site to upload stuff.) That said, it's up to every uploader to respect copyrights and follow [[Commons:Licensing]]. – [[User:Jbarta|JBarta]] ([[User talk:Jbarta#top|talk]]) 02:36, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

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