User:GRuban/Bollywood Hungama
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 2:53 PM
Subject: Do you share photographs with Bollywood Hungama?
To: <joseph@nowrunning.com>, <john@nowrunning.com>
I am an editor for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, the free online encyclopedia and image repository. In 2008, Bollywood Hungama, https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/, which was then called IndiaFM, gave us permission to use all their images from sets, parties, and press meetings under a free license, which means the world can use them.
We saw this photo set on Bollywood Hungama: https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/parties-and-events/ranveer-singh-graces-screening-yrfs-short-film-sex-chat-pappu-papa/ and your photos of the same event at https://www.nowrunning.com/event/ranveer-singh-graces-the-screening-of-yrfs-short-film-sex-chat-with-pappu-papa/123047/ The BH image https://media2.bollywoodhungama.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ranveer-Singh-graces-the-screening-of-YRFs-short-film-Sex-Chat-with-Pappu-Papa-9.jpg seems exactly the same as your image https://www.nowrunning.com/content/PhotoFeature/2016/RS-YRF-SF/RS-YRF-SF-16.jpg, except for the Bollywood Hungama watermark but yours is higher resolution.
Do you own the image, did you share it with Bollywood Hungama, and does Bollywood Hungama have the right to make it available under a free license? We, Wikipedia, have been using many images from Bollywood Hungama in our free encyclopedia, but if BH doesn't own the rights to those images, we can't use them. Please tell us what your relationship to BH in regards to images is.
Thank you, George Ruban
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GRuban
Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 3:52 PM
Subject: Bhumi Pednekar photos promoting Durgamati The Myth
To: <pinkvilla@gmail.com>
I am a volunteer editor for Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia and Wikimedia Commons the image repository. We noticed your photo set of this event, and it looks exactly the same as the photo set from Bollywood Hungama, below:
- PHOTOS: Bhumi Pednekar rocks a pant suit ensemble as she goes out and about promoting Durgamati The Myth | PINKVILLA
- Photos Bhumi Pednekar snapped during Durgamati The Myth promotions (1) | Bhumi Pednekar Images - Bollywood Hungama
We were wondering, do you own the rights to these images or does Bollywood Hungama? Because Bollywood Hungama releases its images under a free license, and Wikimedia Commons has been hosting those images, to illustrate Wikipedia articles among other things - but if they're your images, then we can't do that.
Please explain who owns the rights to these images.
Thank you,George Ruban
User:GRuban - Wikimedia Commons