On 07/12/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/5/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm
<macgyvermagic(a)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=uploa…
)
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*)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk