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Here's the text of the emails where he granted permission.


To whom it may concern:

I found your page http://www.drjazz.ch/album/clapton.html while doing research for the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and thought your image of Eric Clapton might be appropriate for inclusion in our articles concerning him.

I am specifically seeking your permission to use this image: http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/CLAPTON31.JPG

I would like to include your image in these articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton

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With your permission, we will credit you for your work in the image's permanent description page, noting that it is your work and is used with your permission, and we will provide a link back to your website.

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Thank you for your time.

Kindly, Greg Asche Wikipedia Administrator


Hi Greg, I give you the permission to use my picture of Eric Clapton (clapton31.jpg) under the GNU license. Since another picture of mine is used already in the german edition of wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Bob-Marley-in-Concert_Zurich_05-30-80.jpg ) I expect it to be similar with Mr. Slowhand: you state my name as 'author' and my website as 'source'. OK? If you need better or different resolution of Clapton31 please let me know. Best regards from Switzerland :-) <Name Removed>