User talk:Drakefinn

This is the talk page for Drake Logan. I am working on an educational technology project which uses distinctive images to enhance vocabulary acquisition in foreign language learning. Many of the images we would like to utilize in our project are authored by Wikipedia users. I am in the process of contacting authors to request permissions for usage of these images during the testing phases of our project (in classrooms, non-commercially, with a small number of language students, for a limited time-period usage only). If you have receive such a request through Wiki Talk, I would greatly appreciate your reply and/or any questions you might need in order to grant specific permission(s) for usage, either via Wiki Talk, or at my e-mail address, drakepurple@gmail.com - Thank you for your consideration.Drakefinn (talk) 19:07, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Permission Inquiry for use in educational setting / or, How can I contact you in "real life" ?
Dear Mbz1,

I cannot find any contact information for you online, so I hope it is okay for me to use Talk to make contact with you - if you can, please respond via my e-mail address below. Or, my user Talk is a second-best way.

I would like to inquire about using one of your images in an educational project I am working on. It would involve very limited distribution initially—under 200 students, who would be utilizing the technology we are working on for two months. The project involves a specialized use of imagery to enhance vocabulary acquisition in foreign language learning, by pairing new words with striking, distinctive images. The specific image is of a green turtle, taken in April 2005, and was published on Wikipedia.

We are currently in testing phases, so usage is entirely non-commercial, and on a tight budget. We need further proof of concept before advancing to commercial usage. We are planning to advance to a small-scope commercial distribution within the next six months, and to a wider scale commercial distribution within the year. In the event of our advancement to commercial production, we will be able to pay you regular rates for use of your image, and would contact you again to agree to terms for commercial usage. If you have any thoughts regarding these terms for the future, it would also be helpful to us to hear them from you.

Use of the image would always be with your name as the author, and would greatly assist the learning of students in the classroom.

Thanks very much for your consideration.

Sincerely, Drake Logan drakepurple@gmail.comDrakefinn (talk) 22:09, 29 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Dear Drake,
 * Thank you for your message, and for asking for permission to use my image.
 * I am always happy, when my images are used for educational purposes, for kids. So, please do use my image.
 * If you ever go commercial with your project, and will make some money, please donate my share for charities for kids and for seniors. Good luck!
 * Sincerely. --Mbz1 (talk) 23:14, 29 June 2010 (UTC)