User talk:Mfoto

Possibly unfree Image:Jgs2.jpg[edit]

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Jgs2.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 17:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:AmeliaJGS003.jpg[edit]

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:AmeliaJGS003.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 17:53, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:Lam.jpg[edit]

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Lam.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 17:53, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with the images are that they come from the Jose Gomez-Sicre Photographic Archives according to the summary, yet you claim in the copyright tagging that you are the copyright holder. The copyright holder would be the photographer or the Jose Gomez-Sicre Photographic Archives. Unless you are the photographer of the images or have legal authority to license the images, the tagging is incorrect. The images either need to be claimed unde fair use, which requires the images to meet all the non-free content criteria, or you need to get permission from the copyright holder. See WP:COPYREQ for information on how that is done. -Regards Nv8200p talk 15:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am the owner of the Jose Gomez-Sicre Photographic Archives - I have legal authority to use them. Jose Gomez-Sicre was a personal friend and I am the one who created the archives.Mfoto (talk) 15:56, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How did the images come into the archive? Are they all from the same photographer and was he hired to take the images with an agreement that the archive would own the copyright? -Nv8200p talk 19:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These are Gomez-Sicre's personal and travel photographs. He [JGS] took them himself during his visits to artists studio's. His nephew, Horacio Sicre. was the sole heir to the estate, little by little all of Pepe's personal papers, documents, letters [to and from artists], drawings, artworks, and photographs, etc etc were sold to university collections, or individuals - like myself - who knew Pepe personally. Horacio sold me four large boxes containing hundreds if not thousands of negatives, contact sheets and gelatin silver prints from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's - covering a ferment period in Latin American and Cuban art. I am a photo-based artist myself of Cuban descent - maybe because I am interested in the history of my country and in photography - it is my medium - and because I knew Pepe- that I decided to archived, organized and create the Jose Gomez-Sicre Photographic Archives.Mfoto (talk) 22:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You probably want to get Horacio Sicre to provide you a letter stating that he transfers copyright of all the images as part of the sale (Just buying a photo does not usually give you copyright). That way you have better evidence that you are the copyright holder if there is ever a dispute on Wikipedia or elsewhere. I will withdraw my nominations soon. Thanks for sharing your archive with the world. -Regards Nv8200p talk 22:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]