[Sw-l] Subject: OT: request permission to reuse the hand pictures appearing in “SignWriting Hand Symbols in the International SignW =?utf-8?Q?riting_Alphabet_2010=E2=80=9D_?=by Valerie Sutton and Adam Frost

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 2, 2019

Hello Daniele -
I do not think this is off topic. The issue of placing illustrations or photos of body parts, such as hands, inside a dictionary or listing of signs written in SignWriting comes up all the time. So no need to apologize ;-)

For example, when teaching SignWriting hand symbols, Adam Frost and I created textbooks with photos of Adam's hands:

SignWriting Hand Symbols Manual for the International SignWriting Alphabet
http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/books/index.html#ISWAHands

SignWriting ASL Hand Symbols Manual
http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/books/index.html#ASLHands

Meanwhile, I must tell you how much I love your current work, Daniele, without the photos too...

And it is wonderful that you have chosen he Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Thank you for that.

If possible, I would suggest presenting two versions of your work... one with photos or illustrations and one just as you have it -

I want to present your work to others on our web sites, and I hope you will be interested in presenting at a future SignWriting Symposium.

Like all people, I am behind on other work - no surprise of course. Here in the US, all organizations that are categorized as "non-profit" or "charity" have to submit four government forms and the deadline is May 15th... silly but I am behind on these administrative preparations. So after May 15th I hope to have more time and maybe we can chat about your amazing developments.

Thank you for sharing with the List and I am sure a version of your work using photos will be helpful to many people too -





> On May 2, 2019, at 1:46 AM, Daniele Giacomini <appunti2 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I apologize if this request email is off topic in the list. However, I thought to ask and announce what I would like to do in the IS-LIS Notebook <https://sites.google.com/view/daniele-giacomini/is-lis-notebook?authuser=0> I am working on.
> 
> There are some hand positions that, in my opinion, using SignWriting might not appear very intuitive. I would like to put, beside some SignWriting drawings, also a the corresponding hand pictures, to help the reader. My idea is to reuse some pictures (of the hands) contained in the work that I mentioned in the subject, also modifying then, provided I get the permission of the authors.
> 
> The document I am working on is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, and I would obviously put references to the source of the hand pictures.
> 
> Thank you for your attention.
> Regards,
> Daniele Giacomini
> 
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