On 24/03/2008, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I can't honestly imagine them putting their album covers under GFDL or CC-BY-SA, but if we could get one of the most notorious anti-sharing industries out there to do it, I'm all for it. How would you propose to approach them about it? I think we might even have better luck approaching individual bands who own album covers (though this would be better if we did not allow the nonfree versions, the number of free images of living people skyrocketed once we started disallowing nonfree ones).
Yep. That's why I suspect that starting with requesting good promo pictures under a free licence is likely to meet with more immediate success.
(I'm currently putting placeholder images on every living bio I can find without an image. One side effect I'd quite like this to have is to make our jargon meaning of "free" more normative.)
- d.