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File copyright problem with File:Kiribati_PIPA_Pacific_smaller.JPG

Thank you for uploading File:Kiribati_PIPA_Pacific_smaller.JPG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. feydey (talk) 19:57, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:PIPAwithSeamounts_smaller.JPG

Thank you for uploading File:PIPAwithSeamounts_smaller.JPG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. feydey (talk) 19:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Rotjan - Enderbury Day 1 - 2nd half (62).JPG

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Copyright issues: Phoenix Islands Protected Area

Hello, Ocean.conservation.

I'm afraid that recently an editor noticed that some of the content in this article is duplicated in the official website for the islands. Research into the issue disclosed that quite a lot of it seems to be taken from official publications such as [1], [2], and [3].

While I realize that you may be an authorized agent of one or more of these organizations, I'm afraid that our copyright policies do not permit us to accept material published from other sources without verification that the material is compatibly licensed or public domain. In the case of UNESCO publications, it is clear that they are not, as they restrict usage of their content solely for non-commercial and personal purposes. The Phoenix Islands Protected Area also claim copyright on their website: "© 2007-2012 Phoenix Islands Protected Area. All Rights Reserved." The Invasive Species Specialist Group does the same: "© Copyright 2008 ISSG "

Because we do not have verification that this material is compatibly licensed or public domain, material that has been found to duplicate prior publications has been removed from this article. This removal is not necessarily permanent, however. The content can be restored once usability under our copyright policies is verified.

If you are authorized to release the content of any of these organizations under a compatible license, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure for doing so. Because multiple organizations are involved, the easiest method would probably be to put a note on the associated websites of any organization releasing content; they are welcome to restrict the release specifically to as much information as was placed in the article Phoenix Island prior to the removal of this material - that is, as it appeared in June 2013. Please note that their release cannot be simply permitted the material to be on Wikipedia. In accordance with our own licensing, the content must be released at least under license compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, which permits both commercial reuse and modification. (More information about that is available on Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.)

Of course, if this material cannot be released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, you are welcome to add back the information removed, only using original language. Wikipedia:Copy-paste includes a little more information on our general approach to using content from copyrighted sources, including how limited quotations and paraphrase are utilized.

If you have any questions about any of this, please either come by my talk page (User talk:Moonriddengirl) or place them here with the following code: {{ping|Moonriddengirl}}. This will help ensure that I don't overlook your note.

Thank you, and I do apologize for the complication. Since we do not have any means of identifying people on account creation and since copyright is a legal issue, we are required to take these steps to make sure that we are compliant with the law. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:48, 28 August 2013 (UTC)