On 5/5/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, you would have thought that any given
celebrity of any rank or
stripe would rather that there was a freely-available high-quality
controlled-source picture being used for them than an opportunistic snap
taken during some sweaty ruck at a premiere with inadequate lighting and
extraneous limbs intruding from strange angles...or maybe a
paparazzi-style
"candid" image of them in some embarrassing pose.
The problem is that
under the GFDL people would be free to modify the
image.
Under the GFDL they would have an obligation to document their sources and
modifications thereto.
I tend to think that anyone with sufficient clue to fiddle with an image
under the provisions of the GFDL is likely to have sufficient clue not to
try to pass it off as a genuine image.
The alternative is to have ONLY low-quality images circulating in any
quantity, whether fiddled with or not...which is pretty much what we have
now on teh Intarweb in general.
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Phil
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