On 27/09/2007, Nick heligolandwp@googlemail.com wrote:
I'd imagine we'll be pretty safe as long as we don't accept seriously substandard photographs of celebrities, if it's similar in appearance and of reasonable quality compared with an official publicity photograph as appears on IMDb, their own website or their agents website. What we don't want is photographs taken on a mobile phone when someone is rushed to the hospital. We want free photos, but we don't want free photos likely to get us into a whole heap of trouble.
Our shots of celebs are, on the whole, not disrespectful in that manner. The worst are just crappy fan snapshots. Perfect example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schiff
You show that to a publicist and say "The alternative, Mr Anderson, is to take the blue pill and give us a good promo photo under GFDL, CC-by-sa or both." See if they don't get it.
- d.