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Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:07:42 -0500
To: info@letigreworld.com
From: WWWhatsup <joly@punkcast.com>
Subject: Le Tigre images on Wikipedia
Cc: tom@ecgnyc.com
Hi
I'm keeping a friendly eye on the Wikipedia article on Le Tigre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tigre
The following images appear in the discography in the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Le_Tigre_album.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Feminist_Sweepstakes.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:This_Island.jpg
with the latter also appearing in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Fateman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Samson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Island
Recently Wikipedia have tightened up their policy on fair use
of 'non-free' images. Under the new scheme the This Island
image might survive as it identifies the subjects of the
various articles, and is thus loosely pertinent to critical
commentary, but the other two will likely get deleted once
their use comes under scrutiny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NFC#Non-free_image_use_in_list_articles
Perhaps you'd like to release them under a free licence e.g.
creative commons? You could specify that it only applies to
the low resolution versions in question. (It's my guess that
the images are yours rather than the respective labels.) CC
means that it can be re-used commercially but only under the
same (share-alike) licence.
I've attached a form of consent that you could consider, You
can do a seperate one for each image or just pluralize. Return
it to me and I'll put it through channels.
joly
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Declaration of consent for all enquiries
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the
exclusive copyright of the image located at [url]. I note that
this image is a low-resolution version of the original work.
I agree to publish this image under the free license CC-by-
sa-3.0
I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the image
in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their
needs.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and
retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the
license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not
be attributed to me.
I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and
I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses
this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality
rights, trademark restrictions, etc.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that
the image may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia
project.
DATE, NAME OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER
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