On 27/09/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/09/2007, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. I missed out the part about 'non-free fair use' above. I'm all in favor of people providing their official publicity shots under a free license!
Are you? Good. Care to deal with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Austenlennon#Image:Ruth_langsford.jpg and a political one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jamiet99uk#Image:Kevan_jones_mp.jpg official publicity shots tend to have the habit of developing into complex copyright situations and this isn't an area I've had to deal with much in the past.
Yeah. The hardest thing is to communicate to them that, to make it free, they have to *lose control* over it. We don't want publicists, politicians and so on feeling like we ripped them off. I think they'd get something of value (a good pic of their charge on Wikipedia) out of releasing a shot to the four winds; but I do want them to understand what they're doing.
- d.