File talk:Louis Wain at his drawing table 1890.png

Dear Sir

I am writing to you on behalf of the Wikipedia project <http://www.wikipedia.org/>, an endeavour to build a fully-fledged multilingual encyclopaedia in an entirely open manner, to ask for permission to use your copyrighted material.

In Your book, "Lous Wain, The Man Who drew Cats", ISBN 1-85479-098-6, 1991 edition, chapter 3 "Peter", is a photograph on page 22 with Louis Wain at his drawing table which would undoubtedly enhance communication with our target audience; in order to do so, I should like to ask for your authorisation to use that photograph, under the terms of Wikipedia's licence.

Wikipedia licenses all its content under the licence developed for purposes of free documentation by the Free Software Foundation, the text of which can be found at <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>. It should be borne in mind that if you choose to allow Wikipedia to use the stated photograph, it will remain copyrighted to you; however, the said licence stipulates that third parties must be permitted to reuse the licensed work so long that they retain the licence of this work and any derivatives from it. Consequently, you may wish to consider carefully whether you are prepared to compromise some of your rights granted to you by copyright law by licensing your work as suggested.

That said, allow me to reiterate that your material will be used to the noble end of providing a free collection of knowledge for everyone; naturally enough, only if you agree.

I sincerely appreciate your consideration of this matter. Please advise your decision of this request by email and I will gratefully forward it to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully Stefan Berg

Dear Mr Berg

I hereby give my authorisation to use the photograph according to the terms of Wikipedia's license.

Yours faithfully

Rodney Dale