Talk:Antonio Fontan
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For the initial text of this article, we thank the International Press Institute (IPI) website, which gave permission for the use of the text and the photo through this email below:
Please go ahead and use the photo of Antonio Fontan, as well as text from "50 IPI Press Freedom Heroes". Reference to IPI would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
International Press Institute (IPI) Spiegelgasse 2/29 A-1010 Vienna Austria
Their email is in response to my email which contains the following paragraphs:
I would like to ask your permission to use the article and the photo of Antonio Fontan, one of the Press Freedom Heroes of IPI, for Wikipedia:
http://www.freemedia.at/IPIReport/Heroes_IPIReport2.00/16Fontan.htm
If not the whole article, perhaps we can use a part of it. Of course, I am also interested in using the photo as well.
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Normally we ask permission for material to be used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of the photo, you are granting permission for all others (not just Wikipedia) to use, copy, and share your materials freely -- and even potentially use them commercially -- so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, nor prevent others from using or copying them freely.
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