I just called the Democratic National Committee to ask if they would be willing to licence some of their images under the GFDL (I was hoping to get a photo for [[Terry McAuliffe]]). Anyway, the person I spoke to said that "We probably won't have any problems licencing them to you", but wanted it in writing. So, I have a question regarding image copyright. Does an email constitute permission to use these? And should I store it? That is, what format is necessary for the permission? The even better news is this: when I called, I launched into my little shpiel about how "I'm calling on behalf of the Wikipedia, we're trying to put together a free-content encyclopedia". He stopped me in the middle of my sentence and said "Of course I've heard of the Wikipedia." It kind of made my day. Meelar

I just called the Democratic National Committee to ask if they would be willing to licence some of their images under the GFDL (I was hoping to get a photo for [[Terry McAuliffe]]). Anyway, the person I spoke to said that "We probably won't have any problems licencing them to you", but wanted it in writing. So, I have a question regarding image copyright. Does an email constitute permission to use these? And should I store it? That is, what format is necessary for the permission? The even better news is this: when I called, I launched into my little shpiel about how "I'm calling on behalf of the Wikipedia, we're trying to put together a free-content encyclopedia". He stopped me in the middle of my sentence and said "Of course I've heard of the Wikipedia." It kind of made my day. Meelar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l