Photo rejected
To whom it may concern in FamilySearch Data Administration!
My intention with the photo you reject is that I do not have a photo of the person, but instead substitute a photo of a parish church where the person was born. If they can conflict with the existing ethical rules, they must be changed.
Yours sincerely
Birger H. Andersson
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are you sure that is why it was rejected?
note that the initial rejection is not even done by a human being - but done by a very imperfect automated system.
If you think there was no legit reason for it being rejected - simply reply to the email that you received and simply reply with "RESTRICTED IN ERROR"
9 times out of 10 that will be all that was needed to have it unrestricted.
However - if it was clearly evident that the image was copyright protected - that may have been why they rejected it.
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I have not received an e-mail but a photo was rejected. The photo includes Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand. I was present at the very moment the picture was taken. I was a missionary for the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints. I am connected to the picture due to the nature of the message my church brings to all people and I am connected to royal family members. There is a letter written to me from a world religous leader also displayed in my memories. The photo is displayed for family to appreciate this experience their relative enjoyed years ago. It truly demeonstrates something a representative of Jesus Christ was envoled in. Incidently I have a pin for donating blood 7 times in Thailand and a personal appearance with the Queen of Thailand but she is living so that may wait.
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did you take the photo yourself?
it was probably rejected due to the fact that they felt it was copyrighted. (or that you didnt hold the copy right to the photo)
FamilySearch is very cautious of photos of very famous individuals - and getting in trouble for allowing copyrighted photo of such persons to be uploaded without permission.
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I have no idea what I did wrong! I have a cousin who has married into the Danish royal family and so I have gone ahead and uncritically googled the family and copied pictures of the royals and inserted them. I apologize if I have been guilty of violating a cardinal rule of common practice in familysearch.
Yours sincerely
Birger H. Andersson
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Most of my uploads are rejected on the first try, @Birger H. Andersson - including proof statements in my own words. The first approval is done by a computer algorithm that could do with some retraining. Most of the time, my uploads are approved once I request review by a human.
That said - the Content Submission Agreement has specific guidelines about what we may submit. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/legal/familysearch-trees-submission-agreement?lang=eng
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it happens all the time - -but technically if you arent the photographer and dont have rights to the photo - and if the photo is not in the public domain - then you really should not be uploading it.
(its someone else's property)
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but for any items that you do feel you have a legitimate right to upload - and if it still gets rejected - then simply reply to the email (that may go to a spam folder) with just a few words like
"RESTRICTED IN ERROR" and they will usually unrestrict it.
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