User talk:FritzG

I'll respond faster if you contact me at Wikipedia, because I don't look here every day. --FritzG (talk) 16:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

sorry to have to post here[edit]

but my understanding of german is NIL and I couldnt seem to make the system accept the comment below

Hi,

I'm Keith, responsible for much of the content admin, and editing on Festipedia for the FR. Use of our photos elsewhere are covered by the copyrights stated on the image pages. PLEASE BEWARE that much of the "recent" material is under the category "The copyright holder has given permission for use of this image on this wiki. It may not be used for any other purpose without explicit permission from the copyright holder.", and is not available without contacting the original copyright holder (I think many would probably allow usage, but obviously I cannot speak for them.) If you do use any then credit back to source is always welcome

Regards the PD-old, etc. point. When the Festipedia started, there was no real copyright option. A system wide conversion took place around 1st March 2007, and all photos were classed as "Uploader unsure of copyright status" Since then many have been corrected to reflect the category above ""The copyright holder has given permission .....". With older photos, some coming from old publications, it has not been possible to "correctly" indicate what the category may be as we are unsure of the source. Many come from the company archive, and our archivist is very keen to protect copyrights where due. As I said in the first reply on [1], "If the status can be definitely established, rather than surmised, then it should be changed". As yet no one has performed a detailed study to identify these. Please reply to my Festipedia talk page at [2], and only english please! -- (talk) 2008-4-19T19:01:06 (UTC)