Re: Permissions Request

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 21:09, Neil Kahn <neil@daltonpublishing.com> wrote: > We at Dalton Publishing are releasing a social media and Web 2.0 book > entitled /A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: > Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web/ in April > 2009. In the body of this book we would like to include screen shots of your > product in action as visual examples for our readers. The book is intended > to assist an array of Internet users in maximizing their presence in the > social Web, as well as utilizing the various, powerful social media tools > now available. It will appeal to small business owners, entrepreneurs, > publishers, authors, marketers, and PR professionals, and Universities have > shown interest to offer the book as a required reading text. We are big > believers in the importance and potential of social media, and feel it will > be a transformative industry that changes the way people all around the > world live, work, and interact with one another. The addition of screen > shots from PHP.net to our book will prove as a beneficial asset that will > undoubtedly lend to the book's success. > > All of the products and services referenced in this book will be mentioned > in a positive light, as our intention is to compile step-by-step screen > shots of yours and other ground-breaking products and services that > represent only the very best of what Web 2.0 has to offer. /A Survival Guide > to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization/ is authored by Deltina Hay, > founder and owner of Social Media Power, a Web 2.0 development and > consulting firm based in Austin, TX. The book will be published under Dalton > Publishing's Wiggy Press imprint, and distributed internationally by > Midpoint Trade Books. We anticipate an initial print of 2,000 copies. > > Please get back to us at your earliest convenience, including your > permission for us to print screen shots of your product in our book. Or, let > us know the steps we need to take to acquire these permissions. I am a bit confused. www.php.net is ridiculously old web site, and definetly not web2.0 when it comes to design. Our markup and use of microformats, eRDF and Atom is however web2.0 - but how are you going to present that in a screenshot? In anycase, as long as you read and understand http://php.net/copyright then we don't have any problem with it. -Hannes