Sent this message now. Comments are welcome, after the fact, as a way to learn from my mistakes.
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:18:33 +0300 From: Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org To: brian@LH7management.com Subject: [Christina Grimmie] Please provide a photo of Ms. Grimmie under a licence suitable for Wikimedia Projects ( e.g: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie )
Dear sirs or madams,
I am an editor of the English wikipedia and other wikimedia projects and currently we have this page about Ms. Christina Grimmie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie
( Christina is my favourite YouTube artist, and Team Grimmie rocks! )
However, one thing lacking from there is a photograph, and I was unable to find any good photograph of Ms. Grimmie under a suitable licence (e.g: Creative Commons CC-by-sa, CC-by, Public Domain, etc.) on Flickr. I know some localised wikipedias (where Ms. Grimmie also has some presence - see the translations) require photos to be under a liberal licence).
If you, or Ms. Grimmie can provide us with a good, representable photo of her, that would be a great gesture and a wonderful way to promote her in Wikimedia projects and other collaborative projects such as http://wikia.com/ , and other people and I would be incredibly grateful for that. I am not a lawyer (IANAL) but I think that you can license a lower resolution version of the photo under a liberal licence, and keep the original photo as "All-Rights-Reserved". It can also be a one-off photo dedicated for Wikipedia.
Please let me know of what you think.
Best regards,
Shlomi Fish
P.S: I realise the page about Ms. Grimmie could use more work, and is somewhat out-of-date, but I'd like to tackle one issue at a time.
Are you sure the person you are emailing understands what free licenses are? I would include a short explanation and a link to a more detailed one. On Apr 3, 2013 11:20 AM, "Shlomi Fish" shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
Sent this message now. Comments are welcome, after the fact, as a way to learn from my mistakes.
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:18:33 +0300 From: Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org To: brian@LH7management.com Subject: [Christina Grimmie] Please provide a photo of Ms. Grimmie under a licence suitable for Wikimedia Projects ( e.g: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie )
Dear sirs or madams,
I am an editor of the English wikipedia and other wikimedia projects and currently we have this page about Ms. Christina Grimmie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie
( Christina is my favourite YouTube artist, and Team Grimmie rocks! )
However, one thing lacking from there is a photograph, and I was unable to find any good photograph of Ms. Grimmie under a suitable licence (e.g: Creative Commons CC-by-sa, CC-by, Public Domain, etc.) on Flickr. I know some localised wikipedias (where Ms. Grimmie also has some presence - see the translations) require photos to be under a liberal licence).
If you, or Ms. Grimmie can provide us with a good, representable photo of her, that would be a great gesture and a wonderful way to promote her in Wikimedia projects and other collaborative projects such as http://wikia.com/ , and other people and I would be incredibly grateful for that. I am not a lawyer (IANAL) but I think that you can license a lower resolution version of the photo under a liberal licence, and keep the original photo as "All-Rights-Reserved". It can also be a one-off photo dedicated for Wikipedia.
Please let me know of what you think.
Best regards,
Shlomi FishP.S: I realise the page about Ms. Grimmie could use more work, and is somewhat out-of-date, but I'd like to tackle one issue at a time.
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Hi Thomas,
thanks for your comment.
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:27:46 +0100 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Are you sure the person you are emailing understands what free licenses are? I would include a short explanation and a link to a more detailed one.
The person in question is the management E-mail of the artist in question. Not sure if they understand it, but I was trying to keep the E-mail brief. Anyway, hopefully they will return to me, and if they ask a question about what a free licence and/or Creative Commons and/or etc. are all about, then I can give them the relevant links (if you can recommend any on the Meta Wiki or wherever, then it would be great).
But it's a good point that I (and everyone else) should keep in mind for the future.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
P.S: I am saddened to learn that the article about another YouTube artist that I like and admire is considered for deletion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Alvord ; there is of course http://tiffanyalvord.wikia.com/ , but Wikia is not enough for that. Personally, as a mostly anti-deletionist, I think that articles should be improved rather than deleted, and the Tiffany Alvord article had a very painful history, and Ms. Alvord is certainly notable. Guess I'll have to flame, err.. comment on the deletion request.
P.P.S: my comment signature may unfortunately require a virtal correction according to the first "P.S.". :-(