On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
Fortunately someone else (also from the music
industry, no less)
got it right:
"(Wikipedia is) rooted in fact. It's not promotional.
Especially these days when the internet is full of
artists trying to essentially ram their message down
your throat, I think a fan is a lot more receptive
to a simple, no-hype approach."
This is an interesting comment. Could
it lead to a response from the
music industry about our use of album covers. That has been a thorny
issue for a long time. An understanding with the music industry could
more easily put that issue to bed.
Ec
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I can't honestly imagine them putting their album covers under GFDL or
CC-BY-SA, but if we could get one of the most notorious anti-sharing
industries out there to do it, I'm all for it. How would you propose
to approach them about it? I think we might even have better luck
approaching individual bands who own album covers (though this would
be better if we did not allow the nonfree versions, the number of free
images of living people skyrocketed once we started disallowing
nonfree ones).
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