Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Free/Contacts/Arch Enemy/Petition 001

First petition
From:   ReyBrujo to:     Arch Enemy date:   Jan 20, 2007 2:36 PM subject: Request for free image for Wikipedia

Greetings,

I am one of the many volunteer editors of the English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org), the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia is among the most-visited sites on the Internet, ranking near the top ten according to the estimates of Alexa Internet (alexa.com), and it is likely that many people visit our article about Arch Enemy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Enemy_%28band%29) each day. Unfortunately, the article currently shows a promotional image that will be deleted in the future, as it is considered it can be replaceable with a free image.

I am aware that there are many publicity images of the band available, but since Wikipedia aims to be reproduceable even for profit and even in nations where generous United States "fair use" provisions in copyright law are inapplicable, we should not 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.

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 given Wikipedia's great popularity.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,