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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