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" <shlo...@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 <shlo...@shlomifish.org> > To: br...@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 out-of-date, but I'd like to tackle one issue at a time. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Perl Humour - http://perl-begin.org/humour/ > > Why can’t we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having > a “War” on it? -- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > List of Networking Clients - http://shlom.in/net-clients > > Chuck Norris doesn’t commit changes, the changes commit for him. > — Araujo > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l