Talk:Lewis & Clark Trail Bicycle Route

Copyvio
Below is the text of a message I sent to the Adventure Cycling Association today, via their website. I modified the boilerplate message from here:

To Whom it may concern,

I am writing to confirm whether permission is granted to use content from your book, Bicycling the Lewis and Clark Trail, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL ). A user with the username Kerry Irons has claimed to have excerpted text from this book and used it in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text concerns Lewis & Clark Trail Bicycle Route and the original submission can be viewed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_%26_Clark_Trail_Bicycle_Route.

This user has made no claims of permission to use this material. For the page to remain on our site, we need evidence that you give permission to use this material on Wikipedia. Please be assured that if you do not grant permission, your content will not be used at Wikipedia; we have a strict policy against copyright violations.

You can read the GNU Free Document License in full at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GFDL. (To keep things simple, we do not use Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts, or Back-Cover Texts.) The license stipulates that any copy of the material, even if modified, must carry the same license. This means that anyone would be licensed to distribute the material, possibly for a fee (we would distribute your work free of charge). Under the license, no distributor (commercial or otherwise) can restrict future distribution, so your work would never become proprietary. In addition, the license does not grant the right to imply your endorsement of a modified version.

Please note that your contributions may not remain intact as submitted; this license and the collaborative nature of our project entitles others to edit, alter, and update content at will, i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit the text to a different purpose. There is more information on our copyright policy at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights.

The article will be deleted if permission is not confirmed, though it can be restored at a later date.

Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

My real name (Wikipedia username Katr67)

Katr67 (talk) 18:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply
Dear [My real name],

Regarding Kerry Irons & material from Lewis & Clark Book on Wikipedia. Kerry is a volunteer from our organization - permission is granted.

Please contact me if you have further questions.

Best,

Winona

Winona Sorensen, Media Director Adventure Cycling Association

wsorensen[at]adventurecycling[dot]org


 * I'll forward the message to OTRS when I get a minute. Katr67 (talk) 22:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Follow up
I contacted OTRS and got a form letter (below) in reply. If these folks want their content on Wikipedia, they will have to contact OTRS themselves; I've done all the legwork I wish to.

Message from OTRS
Thank you for your email. If you wish for text from another website to be included in Wikimedia projects, it must be released by the copyright holder under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license, which may be viewed at .

Images and other media are allowed if they are under a free license (such as the above and certain other Creative Commons licenses). You can see the allowable licenses at .

If you provide us with a clear statement that the copyright holder is releasing this content for redistribution under an allowable license, then the content may be used on Wikimedia projects. The email template at  can be used if needed.

Thank you for your understanding! Please see  for more information.

Yours sincerely, Jyothis Edathoot

Katr67 (talk) 21:06, 14 November 2009 (UTC)