Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries

Due to the large number of ambiguous answers to enquiries concerning a permission of reuse for an image, text or similar (such as "I allow Wikipedia to reuse my photos") it is advisable to attach to your enquiry email a standard declaration of consent (and point to it in the email), which can be returned by the author/copyright owner in the email reply. The precedent below should be amended, as necessary, with the required additional information:

I hereby affirm that I am [OR: COPYRIGHT HOLDER'S NAME is ] the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK, [ EITHER included in this email OR located online at LINK ].

I agree to publish that work under the free license (SPECIFY THE TYPE OF LICENSE HERE) [ SEE BELOW ].

I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.

I am aware that I always retain copyright of my 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 me.

I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

SENDER'S NAME AND DETAILS (to allow future verification of authenticity)
SENDER'S AUTHORITY (copyright-holder, director, appointed representative, etc)
[ On behalf of COPYRIGHT HOLDER'S NAME AND DETAILS ]
DATE

Type of license

For images, choose at least one type of license from here. All licenses we use have similar intentions. The most common type are "Creative Commons" licenses such as CC-BY-SA version 3.0 and you may state this if unsure.

For text, the license is always CC-BY-SA version 3.0. If you are the contributor of the text to Wikipedia and the sole copyright holder, you must also co-license the text under the GNU Free Documentation License.

• IMPORTANT: YOU MUST STATE A TYPE OF LICENSE WE CAN USE, OTHERWISE THIS DECLARATION IS NOT VALID.

Other fields

The other fields shown in bold and upper-case need to be filled out if applicable. This also helps clarify to the owner what they are agreeing to. If they are not filled out, the declaration and license will NOT be accepted. Details that you might need to include are:

Name of the work

Link to identify the work, if not included in the email

Your name and your authority to sign the declaration (ie that you are the copyright holder, a director, their appointed representative, etc).

Name and details of copyright holder, if different or you are acting on someone else's behalf

Date of signing

Identification of material

Make sure to include the URL of the image or text if not included in your email.

Email address

E-Mail the permission e-mails to our email response team ("OTRS") at permissions-enwikimedia.org (for articles or English Wikipedia uploads) or permissions-commonswikimedia.org (for Commons or if unsure). Please send a copy to the person (if any) you were previously in touch with so they know about it.

Thank you!