[WikiEN-l] Good news!

[Jimmy Wales]

You know what would be great?  If we had a standard form for people to
use.  You could mail to to this person by paper mail with a return
address to the Wikimedia Foundation, and when the permissions come in,
I can store them for future due diligence on the part of a publisher
or reuser or whatever.

It could be carefully worded by the community so as not to frighten
people.  :-)

--Jimbo


Dan Miller wrote:

> 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
> 
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