publish "Making it Right"

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March blog post: https://medium.com/@Gratipay/f8e1eccb46e.

Reticketed from #532.

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I'm trying to put together a little graphic to go with the post. I need to track down licensing.

To: [email protected]
Subject: permission to use image?

I'm interested in using this image in this blog post. I found the image on your website. What's the copyright on that image? Are you the right person to ask for permission to use it in my blog post?

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The Cirrus SR-20 one is CC-BY-SA.

I found the Boeing one on Wikipedia.

This image was originally posted to Flickr by boeingdreamscape at http://flickr.com/photos/49902951@N02/4584756327. It was reviewed on 30 November 2010 by the FlickreviewR robot and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

The Flickr link is 404, but I think we're safe if Wikipedia has cleared and is using it.

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To: [email protected]

Sorry for the noise. I just saw your FAQ on this subject on your contact page.

Best wishes! :-)

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Can we have permission to publish a photo?

We are not a clearing house for historic aviation photos. The 48 high-resolution historic images we have posted in Help With Homework are for "scholarly" use only -- school reports, term papers, History Day projects, and the like. Unless you want to publish one of the contemporary color photos that we have taken of our flight experiments, we cannot legally give you permission to publish old photos. However, you can download high-resolution images of Wright brothers' photos from the Library of Congress. Since these are in the public domain, they may be used without permission. If these won't do, by far the next best source is the Special Archives and Collections at the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. They have an astounding collection of Wright brothers and pioneer aviation materials, their fees are reasonable, and they are both knowledgeable and helpful far beyond expectations.

http://www.wright-brothers.org/General/Contact_Us/Contact_Us.htm

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Wright State wants $100.

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[This](This could work) could work but I don't want to pay $100 for it, or wait for days.

I can't find the Herring photo in the Library of Congress (or WSU), and also, we're the Wright brothers, not Herring:

About the same time the Wrights added a rudder to their glider, guests began to arrive. The 1902 Kitty Hawk camp quickly became a crowded, busy place. The Wright’s brother Lorin turned up unexpectedly, his curiosity having been aroused by their letters home. Octave Chanute and George Spratt visited again, along with another of Chanute’s aeronautical acquaintances, Augustus Herring. Herring was the co-designer and builder of the 1896 biplane glider that had inspired the Wright’s own design.

Chanute and company brought with them a folding tri-plane glider designed by Chanute and built by Charles H. Lamson, a maker of man-carrying kites residing in Long Beach, California. Chanute had offered the glider to the Wright brothers in exchange for testing it, but they had declined, claiming they had their hands full with their own experiments. So Chanute had brought Herring to be the test pilot.

The Lamson glider was a humiliating failure, barely able to glide 50 feet (15 meters). The Wrights were consistently flying between 300 and 400 feet (90 and 120 meters). The Lamson glider was tested for only a day, then abandoned. Herring left shortly thereafter, understandably jealous of the Wright’s success. The remaining visitors helped the brothers launch their craft again and again, sometimes making over 75 flights in one day.

http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/Inventing_the_Airplane/Wagging_Its_Tail/Wagging_Its_Tail.htm

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Here it is (via search for "1902 glider"):

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/awilson154/8755485628/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_747-8_first_flight_Everett,_WA.jpg

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Published!

https://medium.com/gratipay-blog/making-it-right-f8e1eccb46e

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Reopening to track initial promotion on Twitter.

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I'm planning to link the post again on Monday, and then make a push on Tuesday.

"We share the messes with you despite our embarrassment, so that you can [see] the true state of Gratipay." https://medium.com/gratipay-blog/making-it-right-f8e1eccb46e

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https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/709418141881774080

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I want to experiment with using Medium's quote-to-Twitter feature, aka "text shots."

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https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/709730667429535744
https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/709756740963856384

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https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/709787677172826112

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https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/709793232352387072
https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/709801078297108480

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That's probably enough for now. :-)