On Jan 23, 2008 1:43 PM, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
The point is mainly that offering these labels might grant us more photographs. Hence, with a very little concession to the standard to which professional photographers are accustomed, we could replace lots of "fair use" pictures with Free images, and illustrate articles which lack images.
But this clearly is far less funny than twisting words to expose suspicious language of a potentially anti-democratic nature, or than acertaining the purity of the ideology in which people contribute their images. It's not like we're making a project in the, you know, real word, is it ?
The overwhelming majority of most professional photographers works are used without the sort of credit you are describing, so you're making a false argument. I think we should provide *great* credit, industry leading credit, but that doesn't mean we need to litter the articles with it.
In theory we could also encourage people to contribute by setting up an advertising box in the left side bar and give free space in the rotation to everyone who contributes.... :)