Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-14908162-20191022145823

Hello everyone,

Just a quick announcement: from now on any image that is uploaded needs to have a license selected. Many users already do this, but for those of you who don't know I'll explain how to do it.

When uploading an image, click on "More options". One of the bottom fields is a drop-down menu titled "Licensing", which is normally set to "None selected". If you click on this, you'll get a few options:
 * "This will be used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US law". Choose this option if you'll use the image in a song page article and no other license is applicable.
 * "I created this image myself". Choose this option if you've created the image yourself (as in you took the photo or drew the image).
 * "I got this from Wikipedia or another Wikimedia project". Choose this option if you got the image from Wikipedia/another Wikimedia project.
 * "This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License". Choose this option if the image falls under a CC-BY-SA license.
 * "This is licensed under a free license". Choose this option if the image falls under another free license. If you choose this option, please specify the license in the "Caption" box.
 * "This is in the public domain". Choose this option if the file is in the public domain.
 * "This file is copyrighted, but use is permitted by the copyright holder". Choose this option if you got permission to upload the file by the copyright holder.

If you forget to choose an option, that's fine. You can notify me or edit the page yourself. The templates can be found in the categories here, and above the template should be a header which says Licensing. So for example: ==Licensing==

I've currently got a bot running that will update old files which don't have a license yet, so images that were uploaded before this message don't need to be changed. I'll update corresponding guidelines soon.

If you have any questions feel free to ask me! Thank you for reading this message! Amandelen (talk) 14:58, October 22, 2019 (UTC) 