File talk:Ray Casey2.jpg

new email to the Daily Mail for permission to use image

Here is the text of the email that I just sent:

I am a contributor to the Citizendium (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page), a new and improved version of Wikipedia. For an article about an old-time tennis player that I first wrote in Wikipedia several years ago, and then rewrote for the Citizendium (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Ray_Casey), I used an image of a cartoon that originally ran in your newspaper in the sports section of the issue of Tuesday, June 25, 1925. Ray Casey, the tennis player in question, had cut out and framed your cartoon. I took a photograph of this framed cartoon around 1980 at his home and subsequently scanned it and turned it into a .JPG file, which is what I have used in both the Wikipedia article and the Citizendium article. It is my understanding from an examination of British copyright law that this cartoon long ago passed into the public domain and that I am free to use it. Nevertheless, I am contacting you in order to ask your permission in the extremely unlikely case that your paper still retains title to its copyright. Since this is a very poor reproduction of the original cartoon, I believe that in any case it falls into a "fair use" category in order to illustrate this encyclopedia article. Please note that, like Wikipedia, the Citizendium is a non-profit organization devoted to disseminating knowledge throughtout the world. I would greatly appreciate receiving your permission to use this cartoon -- your paper will, of course, be credited for its use.

Hayford Peirce 19:30, 30 May 2008 (CDT)