The premise that the only photos on Wikipedia are absolutely awful. E.g.
exaggerating how bad the photos of Janney, Bonds, and Beckham are.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Yeah, the article is kind of premised on a lie.
Was it? It rang perfectly true to me.
Our de-facto policy is that we utterly prefer having no photo at
all to having an improperly licensed one, and we utterly reject
any of the opportunities that fair-use law would easily grant us.
Corollary 1: most living celebrities will have amateur snapshots.
Corollary 2: most dead celebrities will have no photo at all.
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