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Copyright Questions

Rather than continuing to talk on the Request for Confirmed Right's page, I thought this would be a better place to discuss this. As far as I can find you had one image uploaded to Commons and that was Ted Nugent 2013.jpg. That image has been deleted because of copyright concerns. As I explained, the EXIF data and a web page said the image had all rights reserved. You uploaded it to Commons as CC-BY-SA 3.0. While I believe you are probably the photographer we have no confirmation that you are the photographer so we can not take your word for it. If you have other photographs that have been uploaded can you provide the file names so I can look at them?

As far as what you need to do,

1. Upload a version of the photographs where the EXIF data does not say all rights reserved.
2. Upload a version of the photograph without any watermarks.
3. update your website so that the images you upload are either not on the website or are specified that they have the same license as you uploaded them with.

Those steps should take care of any copyright problems. All these images should be uploaded to the Commons like you uploaded the original Ted Nugent photograph. If you need anymore explanation you can ask right here. GB fan 11:50, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your information. I do have other photos on Wikipedia, located Willie_Nelson_at_Farm_Aid_2009.jpg , and Tom Petty 2.jpg . I realize after reading your note that Tom Petty 2.jpg needs to be replaced, and I've uploaded it's replacement without my watermark. That file name is : Tom_Petty_2013.jpg

I have also uploaded 4 other files of entertainers, which are my own work. I have well over 100 more. My website can verify who I am, as I understand you cannot take my word for it. I am also facebook.com/LarryGPhilpot The 5 photos uploaded a few minutes ago all have had the "all rights reserved" removed from the metadata, so I think this has covered my mistakes in the uploading process. I will look at this page tomorrow and see if it's ok. Please feel free to replace the old Tom Petty 2, as it has my name on it as a watermark, or I'm happy to do it. Again, these files are my own work, as I am a concert photographer and I have full ownership of the images, and am the copyright owner as well. Thank you for trying to help me. Nightshooter (talk) 02:04, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

As all these files are at the commons, if you need to update license information you will need to do it there. Wikipedia can access the files there but they can can not be modified from here. GB fan 12:51, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

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