User talk:Chowbok/Photo request boilerplate

How successful has this been? Daniel Case 21:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Heh... not as successful as I'd like. Everyone seems rather mystified by it. I have gotten some images this way, but only after several clarifying follow-up letters. It'd be nice if somebody could rewrite this to make it easier to understand, but I'm not sure that's possible without leaving out details that really need to be in there. The thing is that people who are familiar with the software world have had years to get used to things like the GNU and BSD licenses, but for most everybody else these are quite novel concepts and difficult to get across to people who only understand copyright as something binary. —Chowbok ☠ 15:14, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this could indeed be much more clear. As it stands now, it is riddled with euphemisms and jargon. It also fails to responsibly let the famous person know of some important implications of their decision to release a "free" photo of themselves.

Since our Jennifer Love Hewitt article currently lacks an image, I thought I'd address this letter to her, to make it more realistic.

Dear Jennifer Love Hewitt,

I am one of the many volunteer editors of the English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org), the encyclopedia that anyone can edit and use for any for-profit or non-profit purpose.

Unfortunately, our article about you at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//Jennifer_Love_Hewitt lacks an image.

I am aware that you have already made copyrighted publicity photos of yourself available for fair use, and that these depict you as you yourself wish to be depicted in media such as Wikipedia. However, fair use images are not actually allowable within Wikipedia. This is because we must maintain the encyclopedia's entire contents, including all images, as reproducible and alterable for for-profit purposes by anyone anywhere.

We are therefore requesting you to legally and irrevocably release to the world an image of yourself, an image that

• Anyone anywhere may use for profit, and;
• Anyone anywhere may modify as they see fit.

However, we can require that attribution is always made to the producer of the image.

After you have released in perpetuity a photo of yourself under this type of for-profit-allowable and derivative-allowable licensing, we at Wikipedia along with anyone anywhere can then use the photo.

We hope you agree, and thank you for your time and consideration.

Joe Gotdagall

CyberAnth 04:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

thoughts?

Have you seen: User:Videmus Omnia/Requesting free content? — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 06:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)