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.
Mgm
On 12/5/06, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
I think the first fair use criterium should be more clearly written: it seems that many people think that the part about a replacement which could be "reasonably be found or created" excludes the variant of getting out of the house and taking a picture. :-)
I've been tagging as replaceable a few hundred fair-use images of public buildings.
There were quite a number of images which had the "no free alternative found on the internet" as fair use rationale.
Also, so far, I got one disputation:
<< I have looked for a free alternative of this image, without finding one. No luck on Flickr or Google. Short of forking out for a digital camera and going to take the image myself, I can't see how "a free image that provides substantially the same information might reasonably be found or created".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Campbell_College.jpg
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