User:Tabercil/J Bruce Howie permission
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From the email exchange I had with J. Bruce Howie between 9/24/2006 and 10/1/2006:
- Hi... I was wondering if you would be so kind as to consent to allow me to use the photo you took of Victoria Paris at the 2003 CES show on Wikipedia to illustrate Victoria's entry there.
- As well, I'm wondering about if the people at Wikipedia can use the photos on a general basis to illustrate the various articles... it's hard to find suitable pictures of the adult actresses for use on Wikipedia.
His reply:
- Yes you can use the photo. It's great that you are contributing to Wikipedia.
My (long-ish) follow-up:
- Thank you - your initial consent is the biggest hurdle cleared. Now the only thing I wish to do is to clarify the license as well as any conditions by which you want your photos to be used. :)
- In terms of licensing, there's a full page at Wikipedia concerning what licenses can and cannot be used with images uploaded to Wikipedia. If you wish, you can find them all here:
- I'm hoping I can sweet-talk you into agreeing to use the Creative Commons license. Probably the easiest one for all would be the cc-by-sa-2.5, which can be seen here:
- Essentially what it means is that Wikipedia can freely use the photo, provided that the credits are specified as you wish, and any use or modification by any one else must carry the eaxct same license with the initial credits as well.
- If you do choose to license under cc-by-sa-2.5 (please, say yes <g>), you'll also need to specify how you are to be credited. It can be to "J. Bruce Howie" or some other fashion as you wish. For instance, the photos which Luke Ford takes are usable under a Creative Commons license, but must be credited to "www.lukeisback.com" .
- And finally, you'll need to explicitly state in your own words how you wish to handle all of the above; a reply of "yes to what you said" is not sufficient. I know, it smacks of lawyering but I ran into the same headache when I was getting Luke Ford's consent as someone on Wikipedia said "Luke didn't explicitly say you can do this".
His reply:
- I give permission to you and Wikipedia to use any photo (including IMG_0027 of Victoria Paris, url http://jbrucehowie.com/web/CES%202003%20Day%20One/pages/IMG_0027.html) from the CES collection of pictures on my website (www.jbrucehowie.com. The license that I grant is as stated in the Creative Commons license (url http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/). Attribution need only be "J. Bruce Howie".
