[WikiEN-l] We need to recognize that advocating is a basic right

[geni]

On 5/5/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> geni wrote:
> >
> > On 5/5/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "PR photo" implies non-free licencing, which means that it's not
> >> acceptable on Commons, our free media repo. So in this case, and in
> >> others, no image *is* better.
> > I assumed that people were releasing them under a free licence (it
> > might be a logical course of action for politicians although not so
> > much for celebrities).
> >
> 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.
>
> Obviously we wouldn't necessarily use the latter if it proved too salacious
> but if it were the best available free-licence picture you'd likely be able
> to build some sort of reasonable argument...
>
> HTH HAND
> --
> Phil
> --


The problem is that under the GFDL people would be free to modify the image.


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geni