File:Peter Adkison.jpg

Summary
Peter Adkison at Origins Game Fair 2003 at the "Who Wants to be a Gamer" event. Copyright 2003, Matt Mayfield for Cloud Kingdom Games. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license with credit required to www.cloudkingdom.com.

This is a cropped version of this image as found on this web page.

The source page grants the CC-BY-SA-2.5 license, but as further documentation, my exchange with Mr. Mayfield. Signatures and email addresses have been deleted for privacy reasons.

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:11:50 -0500 From: Alan De Smet  To: DELETED Subject: Reuse of your image for Wikipedia?

The following is intended for the copyright holder of this photograph of Peter Adkison at http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023_std.jpg that appears in the web page at http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023.htm. By default the copyright holder will be the person who took the photograph. If this email address does not reach that person, could you please either forward it on, or direct me to the correct person?

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To the copyright holder of the photograph of Peter Adkison at http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023_std.jpg that appears in the web page at http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023.htm :

I am an editor of Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org ), a multilingual project to create a complete, accurate, and open-content encyclopedia. Volunteers from around the world collaboratively edit Wikipedia, which is one of many projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (http://wikimediafoundation.org ). We depend on photography to clearly illustrate our articles.

Your photograph photograph of Peter Adkison at http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023_std.jpg that appears in the web page at http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023.htm looks like it would be an excellent illustration for the Wikipedia article about Peter Adkison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Adkison ).

However, we can only use your material if you are willing to grant permission for it to be used under terms of a suitably free license. The two most convenient would be the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license*, or the GNU Free Documentation License* (GFDL). This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of your own work, you are granting permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., "share-alike"). Please do note that your contributions may not remain intact as submitted; these licenses, as well as the collaborative nature of our project, also entitles others to edit, alter, and update them at will, i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit the text to a different purpose. If you're worried about such things, the GFDL expressly protects creators "from being considered responsible for modifications made by others."

summarized here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ while the full details are here http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode) A copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is here:
 * The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License

If you do agree to grant permission for use, we will credit you, state the image was based on your work and is used with your permission, and provide a link back to your website. Just let me know how you would like to be credited, and if a link different than http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023.htm would be appropriate. I'll upload a full copy of my request and your response along with the image as evidence of your permission.

If you do decide to grant permission, in addition to letting me know, it would be helpful as further documentation of your intent if you were to add a note to the effect of the grant on http://www.weekendwarrior.com/gamex2003pix/adkison/100_0023.htm Something like "I hereby grant permission to reuse this photograph under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version publised by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts." or "I hereby grant permission to reuse this photograph under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license."

If you have any questions about the process, what rights you would be granting, or anything related, please let me know and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

I hope you will consider accepting our request.

Thank you for your time,

Alan De Smet

Subject: RE: Reuse of your image for Wikipedia? Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:57:20 -0600 From: "Matt D. Mayfield" [DELETED] To: "Alan De Smet" [DELETED]

I took that picture and I'm fine with it being used, so if you could credit it to Cloud Kingdom Games (preferably) or to me (Matt Mayfield) that would be great. I've added the Creative Commons license link and attribution statement to image gallery pages.

That's Rick Smith (www.cloudkingdom.com/Authors/ras.aspx) with Peter.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Matt Mayfield

(I've also deleted a copy of my original message that was appended to Mr. Mayfield's response.)