Dissimilation

Copyright problems with File:General Sverker Göranson.jpg

Hello. Concerning your upload of the image File:General Sverker Göranson.jpg, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted images obtained from other sources, without the permission of the author(s). This image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_6611/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~6611~The%20Supreme%20Commander,%20Sverker%20G%C3%B6ranson. As a copyright violation, File:General Sverker Göranson.jpg falls under the speedy deletion criteria and has been deleted.

If you believe that the image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under a free license then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave me a message explaining the details and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the <pick a free licence> or released into the public domain leave me a message at my talk page with a link to where I can find that note.
• If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on [[Talk:File:General Sverker Göranson.jpg]].
• Or alternately drop me a note about this file if I have misunderstood something.
  - Peripitus (Talk) 07:11, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Sverker Göranson

According to the policy of the Swedish Armed Forces, stating that "De flesta bilder tillhandahålls utan kostnad för media och ickekommersiellt bruk under förutsättning att källan anges" ("Pictures are at disposal without cost for media and non-commercial use under the condition that the source is stated"). This information can be found at [1], however only available in Swedish. If I forgot to state that, I am sorry. Please let me know how you think. Dissimilation (talk) 09:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I see the issue. The licence they have stated says that non-commercial use is not allowed and it does not state anything about derivative works. These conditions mean that from Wikipedia's point of view the image(s) are not free. Free licences such as the GFDL or Creative Commons ones we use here, and that you tagged the images with, allow commercial use and derivative works to be created. For images of these that are copyrighted under non-free licences, the only way to use them on Wikipedia is if they meet the non-free content criteria. Images of living people almost always fail on the first criteria - as it is deemed that a free image could be created of them. I hope that this has been of some help - Peripitus (Talk) 13:48, 7 June 2009 (UTC)