User:17Drew/Request for permission

Dear  :

I am one of the many volunteer editors of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org). Wikipedia is ranked as one of the most-visited sites on the Internet, and it is likely that many people visit our article about   (') each day. Unfortunately, our article currently uses an image of   that might be considered unflattering due to its comparatively low quality.

I am aware that there are many publicity images of   available, but since Wikipedia aims to be reproduceable even for profit and in nations where U.S. "fair use" provisions in copyright law are inapplicable, we cannot use an image that is not released under a so-called "free license". Essentially, the copyright holder of any image that we use must irrevocably permit anyone else to use it, modify it, or sell it, with the only permissible requirements being that the author be named and that any modifications be released under an identical license. (Exceptions may be made if there is no image available that meets these criteria, but that is not the case here.)

Example licenses that would permit us to use a better-quality image would be: the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode), or a simple "no rights reserved". You are under no obligation to release any material under such licenses, but I thought that for public-relations purposes, you might want to consider it.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,