File talk:Touched by His Noodly Appendage HD.jpg

Emails exchanges with file creator (August, 2005)

Email from Nova77 asking to confirm permission to use:

From: [email of Nova77]

To: [email of Niklas Jansson]
Date: Aug 21, 2005 10:48 PM
Subject: wikipedia image of Flying Spaghetti Monster

Hello,

I am one of the editors of Wikipedia, a free, multilingual encyclopedia, licensed under the GNU FDL license, which allows anyone to freely edit its articles (I am sure you have already heard of it).

I write to ask if we could use _a portion_ of your beautiful "flying spaghetti monster" depiction (as shown here http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Image:Flying_Spaghetti_Monster.jpg) in the related wikipedia page (http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster). The picture would have to be licensed under the GFDL license, which would allow for its free distribution.

[...]

Thank you in advance,

Nova

Reply (August 22, 2005)

From: [email of Niklas Jansson]

To: [email of Nova77]
Date: Aug 22, 2005 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: wikipedia image of Flying Spaghetti Monster

I just talked to FSM 'Bobby' and I asked him to put up a notice that it's free to use. There's obviously no copyright for the original painting, but I don't know about the photo itself. As for my part, it's free.

[...]

Regards Niklas

Bobby's permission

From: bobby.henderson@gmail.com

To: [email of moof]
Date: 20 aug 2005

Wikipedia is free to use any of my pictures :) The only thing I'm worried about is that it remains clear that my site still exists i.e., that the links to my site stay.

This is an email discussion providing evidence for permission to use Niklas Jansson's Touched by His Noodly Appendage (see Flying Spaghetti Monster). The original email was sent on August 21, 2005 by User:Nova77. All files of this particular drawing and all derivatives of it should be tagged with the following license tag:

{{Copyrighted free use provided that|a link to [http://www.venganza.org Bobby Henderson's site] remains''' (see [[Commons:Flying Spaghetti Monster permission to use|email discussion]])}}

Summary

Non-free media data
Description	Iconic image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that has become the de facto brand image of the church. Created in August 2005 by the Swedish designer Niklas Jansson, who has given permission for its free use on Wikipedia and related projects. The email exchange confirming this is located here.
Source	http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/other/fsm_raw.tif
Portion used	entire
Low resolution?	yes, 512 x 264 pixels
Other information	Creator has also stated that the image is "pretty much free to use for press and such as far as I'm concerned".[1]

"who has given permission for its free use on Wikipedia and related projects" = inaccurate as NOT confirmed

This should not be included on the image main page. Its usage on the English Wikipedia was determined as admissible as fair use, and NOT as free use. Cirt (talk) 07:10, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arne Niklas Jansson links:

[ http://www.androidarts.com/fsm/index.htm ]

[ http://www.androidarts.com/ProfileFAQ.htm ]

--Guy Macon (talk) 03:50, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]