User:Dori/www.apple.com denial

Apple.com will not even allow the text of the e-mail exchange to be posted, so I am only posting the e-mails that I sent:

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:27:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Dori"  Add to Address Book Subject: Request permission for media images To: appletm@apple.com MIME-Version:	1.0 Content-Type:	text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length:	672

Hi, I am an editor working on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org). We need to use some images of the Apple products for some of our articles, however we cannot make use of any images unless they are public domain or licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL).

I was looking at the images listed at http://www.apple.com/pr/products but I am not sure if they meet the above criteria. I would appreciate any help regarding this matter.

thank you

dori

I received a message that said the material is not available as public domain. I sent another e-mail to see if they had any other material available under public domain or that they could license under the GFDL:

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:50:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Dori"  Add to Address Book Subject: Re: your inquiry to Apple To: "cpyrt" 

What about licensing the images under the GFDL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL)? Apple would still retain copyright of the images, but we would be able to use them in the Wikipedia articles.

Does Apple make any other images of their products available under public domain (or the above license)? I would think that any such exposure would be benefitial to Apple.

thank you, dori

I received another e-mail saying that they would not license any images under the GFDL.