Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where): Support a flow where a contributor has inherited the copyright
Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution): Folks who have inherited the copyright will be able to upload through the UploadWizard without bothering admins
Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a seperate case for heirs of intellectual property | mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard | master | +36 -0 |
FWIW, what Commons currently has to tell users (this is at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Uploading_works_by_a_third_party#Content_where_you_have_inherited_the_copyright): As of August 2025, if you are yourself the inheritor of the copyright to the media in question, the flow of questions in the UploadWizard is a bit misleading. The path that you need to take through it is "This work was created by someone else" > "The creator has released or published this work under a free license". You can then type in one of the copyright tags in Category:License tags for transferred copyright, typically {{Cc-by-4.0-heirs}} or {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}}.
An acceptable flow (perhaps not the only solution) would be for one of the choices after selecting "This work was created by someone else" would be "I am the heir to the intellectual property of the person who created this". If that is selected, we would specifically offer {{Cc-by-4.0-heirs}} and {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}}, rather than the usual licenses now offered.
Change #1193571 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sohom Datta; author: Sohom Datta):
[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] Add a seperate case for heirs of intellectual property
Change #1193571 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] Add a seperate case for heirs of intellectual property