Wikipedia talk:Requesting copyright permission

This process is long, bureocratic, stifles collaboration and bothers companies that would otherwise be willing to donate the material. What's wrong with uploading with having user's upload images, assuming that they have the rights to publish, and responding to DMCA takedown requests if necessary? --TZubiri (talk) 22:35, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

I agree. This is a really unhelpful article. I just wanted a simple way for someone to consent for me to upload a photo of their step-father. After five minutes of reading all this impenetrable stuff, I gave up. Just provide a simple pro-forma letter for someone to send and an address to send it. By trying to allow for every possibility, you risk satisfying no-one. JMcC (talk) 15:37, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm gonna second all of this. The fact that the image is either non-free to use or can be copied, modified, and sold with no in-between is unbelievably ridiculous. I received permission from the owner of a photograph to use an image but only on Wikipedia and with no explicit claim that it can be sold. Is there really nothing I can do with it now? LaunchOctopus (talk) 15:17, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Yes, it is long and bureaucratic, and it got worst when on 5th of January 2019, user B changed the process by asking the copyright-holder to send the authorization email by himself, instead of allowing the user who is doing the process to forward the authorization. However, in the comment he said: The original email from the copyright holder is preferred. Well, now (November 2021) I have seen my first forwarded authorization process denied because forwarded permissions statements are not permitted. I would like to have a clarification about this. Preferred doesn't mean it is compulsory. Where this change of the process have been discussed? --Robertgarrigos (talk) 06:59, 27 November 2021 (UTC)