[Wikimediaindia-l] About photo upload in Commons

2011-05-02 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Hi All, Here I am again with few queries about uploading pictures in Commons. Problems: 1. There are many postage stamps available on eminent personalities which are to be there in Wikipedia, but as post 1951 postage stamps are not in PD there is no possible way to keep them in Commons, Any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About photo upload in Commons

2011-05-02 Thread Shiju Alex
5. If some pictures are available by a State Government portal like herehttp://www.orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/febmar2005/englishpdf/tportraitoascbp.pdf is that possible to add them commons? Not possible as of now since the license of the site is not defined. The story is same

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About photo upload in Commons

2011-05-02 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
2. There are many pictures available for eminent leaders, and many of them are photographed before 1951, but the source is not available and so is the date of issue. So, I was wondering if I can draw them by hand, scan and using tool make little correction so that they won't violate the copyright.