Re: Fw: [Christina Grimmie] Please provide a photo of Ms. Grimmie under a licence suitable for Wikimedia Projects ( e.g: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie )

Are you sure the person you are emailing understands what free licenses
are? I would include a short explanation and a link to a more detailed one.
On Apr 3, 2013 11:20 AM, "Shlomi Fish" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sent this message now. Comments are welcome, after the fact, as a way to
> learn
> from my mistakes.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:18:33 +0300
> From: Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Christina Grimmie] Please provide a photo of Ms. Grimmie under a
> licence suitable for Wikimedia Projects ( e.g:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie )
>
>
> Dear sirs or madams,
>
> I am an editor of the English wikipedia and other wikimedia projects and
> currently we have this page about Ms. Christina Grimmie:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie
>
> ( Christina is my favourite YouTube artist, and Team Grimmie rocks! )
>
> However, one thing lacking from there is a photograph, and I was unable to
> find
> any good photograph of Ms. Grimmie under a suitable licence (e.g: Creative
> Commons CC-by-sa, CC-by, Public Domain, etc.) on Flickr. I know some
> localised
> wikipedias (where Ms. Grimmie also has some presence - see the
> translations)
> require photos to be under a liberal licence).
>
> If you, or Ms. Grimmie can provide us with a good, representable photo of
> her,
> that would be a great gesture and a wonderful way to promote her in
> Wikimedia
> projects and other collaborative projects such as http://wikia.com/ , and
> other
> people and I would be incredibly grateful for that. I am not a lawyer
> (IANAL)
> but I think that you can license a lower resolution version of the photo
> under a
> liberal licence, and keep the original photo as "All-Rights-Reserved". It
> can
> also be a one-off photo dedicated for Wikipedia.
>
> Please let me know of what you think.
>
> Best regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
> P.S: I realise the page about Ms. Grimmie could use more work, and is
> somewhat
> out-of-date, but I'd like to tackle one issue at a time.
>
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