The notion that we must *urgently* photograph/document/scan something is a feeling that I have experienced first hand with reportage photography of elderly celebrities [1]. If you do not photograph them, they have a nasty tendency to die without a Free iconography. That yields either articles that lack images, or articles illustrated by questionable invocation of the US "Fair Use" doctrine [2]. -- Rama
[1] A concrete example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot ; now illustrated with a slightly unsharp photograph, I'm sorry to say. [2] Under the Wikipedia-en doctrine, "fair use" can be used when an image *cannot* be found (not merely when we simply happen not to have one). That has yielded examples like the biography of Dr. Ivins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins where after his death, a Fair Use image was used before somebody found that a Free photograph was in fact available. This hinders the dissemination of Free images and displays inconsistencies in the application of our inner regulations.
On 23 September 2011 03:53, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Very nice essay emijrp. I think this essay belongs on meta, as it pertains to the archival and curation of primary sources (Commons, Wikisource) rather than crowd sourced creation of secondary and tertiary sources (Wikipedia and Wikibooks).
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:43 AM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all;
I have written an essay (my first one)[1] about the idea "There is a deadline". It is opposite to the old essay (from 2006) which holds that there is no deadline.
I hope my redaction is good enough to explain my opinion about this
topic.
Please, if you find errors, fix them, I'm not very fluent in English. Thanks.
Regards, emijrp
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