On 10/10/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/10/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://searchengineland.com/071009-084922.php
This is not the dazzling polished work of wonder she wanted it to be, as her hard disk went BANG on the weekend and she had to rewrite the whole thing from scratch yesterday. I added ideas and some quotes.
I think the Richard Schiff vs Michele Merkin appproach might make the point clear!
I seriously hate that FP. I hope it's not just soft porn stars that pay attention. urg.
cheers, Brianna
No we have hard core porn stars as well.
Looking at what we get through fromowner politicians seem to be a group that are slightly more prepared than others to release pics.
Porn stars (with whom I have had a few encounters, in the "you deleted my picture, put it back" sense), politicians, second-tier actors, and authors (to a lesser degree) are eager to get their pictures up, especially if there's a "No Free Image" placeholder up on their bio. Ugly "NO FREE IMAGE" grey thing = bad for publicity, while professional headshots = good for publicity.
I think we need a special help page for portrait pictures that we can send such people to, as they are generally rather unaware of copyrights. There was a case on en.wp where a very famous author "released" a picture of herself for her biography to replace the placeholder image, but after I inquired as to who took and owns copyright to the photo she admitted it was by another photographer who hadn't released the rights. People often don't realise that just because a picture is OF them and they got hold of a copy, the copyright still belongs to the photographer (unless another arrangement was made), and the *subject* of the picture can't release the image under a free license without permission.