On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Dan Dascalescu < ddascalescu+wikipedia@gmail.com ddascalescu%2Bwikipedia@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:23, elipongo@gmail.com wrote:
This is similar to the whole "fair use" brouhaha at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madeleine_close2.jpg#Licence (the photo of Madeleine McCann, a child who's been missing for 2 years) - as if Madeleine's family wouldn't wholeheartedly agree to that picture being plastered on every website in the world.
I'm sure thats correct and it also makes it easy to resolve - get permission. I think they're fairly accessible through their website, so an editor could simply email them, explain what's needed and ask them to release an image under a compatible license or to provide one that's already been released under a free license. These types of disputes are usually easier and quicker to actually resolve than it is to complain and argue about it.