User talk:Sopwith07

Copyright tags

Please note that just because you put the photograph in the scanner, that does not mean it is "all your own work". The image may be public-domain, and uploading them to Wikipedia may be perfectly fine, but unless you were the one who actually held the camera and took the picture, you are not the creator.

Similarly, just because your family owns an old photo of an ancestor, that does not mean that you own the copyright. The copyright belongs either to the photographer, or to the person-or-corporate-entity who hired the photographer. Even if you own the only physical copy, you still don't own the copyright. All you can control is physical access to the photo.

Your uploads are perfectly valid, but the copyright notices you've been selecting for them are all greatly flawed.

Okay? DS (talk) 19:45, 21 January 2011 (UTC)