Fwd: Re: Copyrights permission

> --- "Nkorreskeysurf.net" <nkorres-gm2Sipju1R/[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Dear Mr. Qatsi,
> > 
> > My name is Nicholas Korres and I have finished my
> > book entitled ''Weed Science Handbook'' that will
> > be
> > published by Intercept Ltd. UK at the beginning of
> > 2004.
> > 
> > I came across your name since I have incorporate
> > into a another figure of my book a part of the
> > endoplasmic reticulum image that it has been
> > uploaded in wikipedia by you and can be found in:
> > (URL:
> >
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/endoplasmic_reticulum
> > or
> >
>
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoplasmic_reticulum).
> >  
> > I would like to have copyrights permission to use
> > this particular image. Of course a full reference
> > will be given in the acknowledgement section of
> > the book the way you wish. 
> > 
> > In case you are not the copyright owner is it
> > possible to provide me the source of that
> > particular image?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance for your co-operation
> > 
> > Yours Sincerely
> > 
> > Dr. Nicholas Korres
> > Author
> > E-mail:nkorres-gm2Sipju1R/[email protected] or [email protected]

>--- koyaanis qatsi <obchodnakorze-/[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Dr. Korres,
> 
> I wish I could help you, but I'm not the copyright
> holder of the image and indeed I'm not certain who
> is.
> 
> As an explanation, Wikipedia started life using
> UseModWiki, software much different from what we
> have
> now; in that software, records of who had done what
> to various articles were periodically purged.  Most
> contributors were not allowed to upload photos, but
> were encouraged to upload them to meta.wikipedia.org
> and to link to them from there to display the photo.
> 
> This habit was kept until wikipedia attracted a
> vandal who persistently inserted links to photos
> of the goatse man.
> 
> The powers that be decided it was best to rewrite
> the software to display a link to an offsite
> image, rather than to display the image itself.
> Hence all offsite photos had to be uploaded to
> en.wikipedia.org in order to display.
> 
> That is where I came in: I transfered the photo, but
> I don't own the copyright to it.  I'm not certain
> who originally uploaded the photo, or even if the
> original uploader was still cited at the time I
> transfered the photo.
> 
> I'd recommend you contact Jimmy Wales, one of the
> site's founders, to see if he can put you in contact
> with Josh Grosse.  I would expect Josh Grosse to
> have made the photo since he was an early
contributor
> with an interest in biology.  But perhaps he did
not,
> and perhaps Jimmy has other suggestions.
> 
> Best wishes, and congratulations on your book,
> 
> KQ
> 
> cc: Jimmy Wales


 And from Jimmy Wales:
 
Can you send this to wikilegal-l, and also to Magnus
Manske, because they are trying to figure this one out
on wikilegal-l, too, and because someone there already
suggested that maybe Magnus was the original
uploader...
 
[KQ says: Magnus sounds likely, too; perhaps more
likely than Josh--IIRC Josh took photos of living
organisms through microscopes, and Magnus constructed
a few images.]


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