[WikiEN-l] Re: Press badges

[Nathan Reed]

I have had thoughts, for some time, that Wikinews might change its
accreditation policy to be more open to editors who, while not terribly
active (or active at all) on wikinews, might still provide useful
contributions to Wikinews and other project.

Surely, the community should still evaluate the editors who wish to be
accredited by Wikinews, but I shall propose to the community that we open
the policy a bit to include editors from other projects...

-N.

On 11/1/05, Jason Y. Lee <jylee at cs.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> The Accreditation policy below requires someone to be a writer for
> several articles on Wikinews. It doesn't quite fit for any person who
> wants an accreditation for a press badge as a photographer. The reason
> behind my wondering over press badges is that I live in Southern
> California,
> a place where there is opporunity to meet a celebrity. I have no doubt,
> the same applies to anyone living in other parts of the world when it
> comes
> to sports figures and the like. The thing is that a photograph of a famous
> person on the English Wikipedia is usually a press or licensed photograph
> from a professional photographer... unless the copyright has previously
> expired on the photograph or they are a public figure of government, which
> of course means their photograph we get is public domain. But how do deal
> with trying to get a photograph of a television star without having any of
> the copyright restrictions? The only answers I can think of is to ask the
> publication to copyleft it, or take a picture of your own.
>
> --
> Jason Y. Lee
> AKA AllyUnion
>
>