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.