On 07/12/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/5/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Public buildings is a clear case, but I think the main problem lies with pictures of people. Unless you want to commit a felony and stalk them, it's pretty much impossible to get non-fair use images for small time actors who don't visit premieres or award ceremonies.
The dozens of celbs (major and minor) uploaded to commons by user Towpilot serves as a fine counter example. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=upload... )
Indeed, Towpilot is an example of exactly the sort of person we should be reaching out to - professional or semiprofessional freelance photographers, with personal image archives, who're willing to release some of that material under a free license.
(I wish my grandfather's archives hadn't burned in the seventies... almost a century's worth of professional photographic negatives. *sigh*)