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(a)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(a)shlomifish.org>
To: brian(a)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out-of-date, but I'd like to tackle one issue at a time.
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