File talk:PinkPic.png

Where is this image from? Ariyen 02:22, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I found the actual file here . I have found it on other sites as well in the color form (using megaphone-girl in the images area of a few search engines), but no link to it being okay to use or not. I'd say it's borderline copyright violation, but due to not knowing where this file was found by the uploader; I cannot say for sure. Ariyen 22:38, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Actual file and other images using same girl are found here. Sorry. Ariyen 10:32, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * "© Royalty Free Stock by Sean Nel of Shoots Imaging" - you pay $5.00 and can use this (500px version) on the web. We have no way to check whether Pink has done that or not, so we'll have to wait for Pink's reaction. --◄mendel► 12:27, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * @Pink, Stock Image does not give the user the right to use the image, unless it's paid for. It's a copyright violation in any other way. Ariyen 18:02, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Ariyen, we are not the ones who are due the payment. If Pink uploads it, it is her responsibility. --◄mendel► 19:45, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Ariyen linked to the image's page above, here's the image -> ∵Scythe∵ 20:20, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Viewed from within the page, it'd be [|http://seannel.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/All-Images-by-Sean-Nel/G0000YtqtCbA.Oxw/I0000fJjEVHPOqII/P0000mi_QJPG.KAE this]. So, it is a copyvio Mendel... Just we don't know if she paid or not, in order to be able to use or change it to fit her userspace here. Ariyen 22:25, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Ariyen, do not say that it is a copyright violation, because you cannot support the claim. The site offers royalty-free stock images; you pay $5.00, and you can use that image 3 times - on the web, in print, wherever. The use of a commercial image is not automatically a copyvio when people can pay to license it!
 * Since Pink tells us that the image is licensed, we do believe her, because a) we've done due diligence to protect the wiki, and b) it's not our business to police our editors' image use and scare them away. What we need to do is inform our viewers of its proper copyright status so that they don't get the impression that this is open content; I've done that, so we're fine. If anyone else wants to use the image, they now know that they need to license the base image, and that they can share Pink's edit noncommercially, with credit. --◄mendel► 23:09, 21 April 2011 (UTC)