Wikipedia:Media copyright questions

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I would like to create audio recordings of several musical instruments listed at . I plan to donate the sound recordings (as described at ). In order to represent the instruments in their usual context, I would like to record performances of material that is idiomatic.

--Theodore Kloba () 14:39, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Not sure if the licensing for this file is correct. Can {{}} be used for logos, etc.? Should this be treated as non-free content? If so, then it should not be used in the user namespace per WP:NFCC#9. -- Marchjuly () 23:35, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Actually, this is an answer to a question send to me about the picture file "Crow camp at Tongue River, 1820". I read the question and then it went away, so I don't know who to answer.

I have the picture from the Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-'89. Washington, 1893. It is to be found here http://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/annual-report-bureau-ethnology-secretary-smithsonian-institution. It is on page 553, fig. 778. Usually, I think, Smithsonian Institution allow free use. The publisher is Government Printing Office. The above mentioned web-page says "Not in copyright".

However, the picture uploaded is a copy of a drawing on a Native American winter count (Lakota). I do not know if such a copy is Smithsonian "property" or if it belongs to a Native American?

Yours Naawada2016 () 08:24, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

I was requested to get copyright permission of a picture I used on a page (Declan Jones). I obtained permission via email from Declan Jones himself and forwarded it to "permissions" within the 1 week deadline. The picture was still deleted. Can you reinstate? Regards, Ron (Manlydesign) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manlydesign ( • ) 15:39, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

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