The Pilgrim Brewer
Appendix B: Permission To Use Images
Date: Sunday, March 6, 2005
From: Graham Higgins
To: Evan Spence
Subject: Re: The Ballad of John Barleycorn images
Howdy, Mr. Higgins:
I’m Evan Spence, an architecture student at the Dalhousie School of Architecture in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I’m presently writing my thesis, which centres on a notional brewery. I would like to use some of your illustrations from your John Barleycorn collection in my thesis presentation.
A notional brewery — this is like an industrial think-tank?
It is actually a lengthy commentary on the dullness and tedium many breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs. Must everything be brass taps and oak?
Yep, I generally fall skeptical of anything Olde, and am rarely optimistic about the Craft to anticipate at Fayres. Semiotics, don’t you love ’em?
I would like to include some of your images (I’m not yet certain which ones) into my final presentation perspectives, which I am preparing in Photoshop.
I guess, then, the lo-res versions on the site will be OK?
So to be clear, I am asking permission to include your illustrations in several architectural collages I am preparing. I am not proposing using your images on their own, but as a part in a larger work. While my thesis will be published, the distribution will be small. (Five copies, one of which goes to the national library in Canada.)
Any work I use will be clearly credited in every instance. May I proceed?
I’m happy to give permission for the limited use outlined.
Thanks for taking time to ask and being refreshingly articulate about it.
Best wishes,
Graham.