On May 5, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Phil Boswell wrote:
Actually, you would have thought that any given celebrity of any rank or stripe would rather that there was a freely-available high-quality controlled-source picture being used for them than an opportunistic snap taken during some sweaty ruck at a premiere with inadequate lighting and extraneous limbs intruding from strange angles...or maybe a paparazzi-style "candid" image of them in some embarrassing pose.
Obviously we wouldn't necessarily use the latter if it proved too salacious but if it were the best available free-licence picture you'd likely be able to build some sort of reasonable argument...
Incidentally, why don't we have free-content paparazzi tracking down celebrities to take pictures for Wikipedia articles?