[Commons-l] Musing with professional photographers: further lessons learned

[Alex Nordstrom]

Wednesday, 23 January 2008, Rama Rama wrote:
> * formulise the request in such a way that a simple "OK" from the
> user is sufficient.

Careful with this one. "OK" is rarely a clear enough assertion of 
authorship and consent to license. Better then to send a message with a  
boilerplate response and say "reply with this if you agree with what it 
says".

We run into this problem all the time, and it's mostly because new 
contributors ask artists for Wikipedia-only permission. Then they find 
out that this isn't sufficient and immediately rush to ask the 
artist "do you grant Wikipedia 'the GNU license'?" and so on, instead 
of using http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates 
directly.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LX
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