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[edit] First petition
From: ReyBrujo
to: Arch Enemy
date: Jan 20, 2007 2:36 PM
subject: Request for free image for Wikipedia
Greetings,
I am one of the many volunteer editors of the English Wikipedia
(en.wikipedia.org), the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia is among the
most-visited sites on the Internet, ranking near the top ten according
to the estimates of Alexa Internet (alexa.com), and it is likely that
many people visit our article about Arch Enemy
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Enemy_%28band%29) each day.
Unfortunately, the article currently shows a promotional image that
will be deleted in the future, as it is considered it can be
replaceable with a free image.
I am aware that there are many publicity images of the band available,
but since Wikipedia aims to be reproduceable even for profit and even
in nations where generous United States "fair use" provisions in
copyright law are inapplicable, we should not use an image that is not
released under a so-called "free license". Essentially, the copyright
holder of any image that we use must irrevocably permit anyone else to
use it, modify it, or sell it, with the only permissible requirements
being that the author be named and that any modifications be released
under an identical license.
Example licenses that would permit us to use a better-quality image
would be: the GNU Free Documentation License
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode), or a simple
"no rights reserved". You are under no obligation to release any
material under such licenses, but I thought that for public-relations
purposes, you might want to consider it given Wikipedia's great
popularity.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
