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E-mail correspondence relating to licensing of image

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The e-mail correspondence relating to the licensing of the image under the GFDL by the National Museum of Singapore is reproduced below. Requests were made by Jacklee and "Otterman" (Sivasothi), and replies were received from Lee Chor Lin, Tamilselvi and Nuriana Yahya, respectively the Director and officers of the National Museum. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 16:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[回复]

From: Tamilselvi MUTHU/NHB/SINGOV
Date: 13 Aug, 2007 11:13 AM
To: Chor Lin LEE/NHB/SINGOV@SINGOV
Subject: Request to Use Photograph of the Singapore Stone on Wikipedia

Dear Chor Lin,

The editor of Wikipedia has requested to use a low res image of the Singapore Stone on Wikipedia. In the letter below he has requested for copyright waiver. However there are special terms in bold at the bottom of the letter that we must agree to. As this is a nonprofit educational project, I would like to propose that we waive all charges for this request. For your approval, please. thank you.

Selvi

I am a volunteer editor of Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org), a multilingual project to create a complete, accurate, and open-content encyclopedia. As you may already know, 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, art, diagrams and charts to clearly illustrate our articles.

I have been updating an entry on Wikipedia about the Singapore Stone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singapore_Stone), and would like to use in that article a photograph of the fragment of the Stone that is in the National Museum of Singapore that appears as figure 2 on page 42 of the book Archaeological Research on the "Forbidden Hill" of Singapore: Excavations at Fort Canning, 1984 (Singapore: National Museum, 1985) by John N Miksic. The photograph is a particularly good one as the raking light used to illuminate the stone shows up its inscription clearly. Only a small, low-resolution version of the photograph needs to be used.

In order for photographs to be used on Wikipedia, it is preferred that permission be granted by the copyright owner for them to be used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GNU-FDL, or GFDL for short). This means that although the copyright owner retains the copyright and authorship of the photographs images, he or she is granting permission for others to use, copy, and share the images 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 (eg, "share-alike"). The licence can be read in full at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License. For clarity, salient terms that the copyright owner would be agreeing to are summarized in the box below. Wikipedia uses the GFDL because it considers it the best available tool for ensuring the encyclopedia can remain free for all to use, while providing credit to everyone who donates text and images. If the copyright owner grants permission for use of the photograph under the GFDL, and so requests, he or she can be appropriately credited.

I hope that you will be able to assist in improving Singapore's presence on Wikipedia, and look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Jack Lee

  • I hereby assert on behalf of the National Museum of Singapore that the Museum is the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the work.
  • The Museum agrees to publish that work under the GNU Free Documentation Licence.
  • The Museum acknowledges that it grants anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their needs.
  • The Museum is aware that it always retains copyright of its work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to the Museum.
  • The Museum is aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and reserves the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc.
  • The Museum acknowledges that it cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the image may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

From: Nuriana YAHYA <Nuriana_YAHYA@nhb.gov.sg>
To: otterman <sivasothi@gmail.com>
Cc: Pauline KHENG <Pauline_KHENG@nhb.gov.sg>, jack.at.wikipedia@gmail.com Date: Jan 8, 2008 12:18 PM
Subject: Fw: Request to Use Photograph of the Singapore Stone on Wikipedia

Dear Siva,

Please see email below. The usage has been approved by our director, Lee Chor Lin, dated 13 Aug 2007.

Hence, authorisation letter is not required.

Regards, Nuriana Yahya

----- Forwarded by Nuriana YAHYA/NHB/SINGOV on 01/08/2008 08:25 PM -----
From: Tamilselvi MUTHU/NHB/SINGOV
Date: 07 Jan, 2008 02:30 PM
To: Nuriana YAHYA/NHB/SINGOV@SINGOV
Subject: Fw: Request to Use Photograph of the Singapore Stone on Wikipedia

Please see.

----- Forwarded by Tamilselvi MUTHU/NHB/SINGOV on 07/01/2008 02:38 PM -----
From: Chor Lin LEE/NHB/SINGOV
Date: 13 Aug, 2007 04:33 PM
To: Tamilselvi MUTHU/NHB/SINGOV@SINGOV
Subject: Re: Request to Use Photograph of the Singapore Stone on Wikipedia

approved.

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