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?
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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch