User talk:Ptunderwood

Copyright problem: Michael Kutza

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Following up on this: I believe that you are the same person who wrote the biography of Michael Kutza on IMDB. Is this true? If so, please edit the biography to add a statement releasing it under a free license, such as the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. If you are not able to edit it, please respond here. Dcoetzee 23:05, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]