@bobby the issue of copyright on images can be very stretchy I most times don't fight about.
Photographer who took the celeb's picture. A funny scenario can be this:
I'm a celeb, at an occasion, I realized I looked awesome so I asked someone I dont know to use my phone take a quick shot of me.
I wanna put the image on Commons so I go look for that stranger and put his name on. Come on.
A similar instance is with these celebs. Some are photoshoots where the studio or photographer can be tracked. In many similar instances, it follows the scenario above. So who's the copyright owner?
Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ??
Felix expect a follow up email from Theresa ( she'll be in contact with all the user groups as well) to find out how far they are with the recommendations/proporsals/decisions taken from the indaba.
On 04.03.2015 21:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote:_______________________________________________
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you
please rephrase this statement?
"But, as a
reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the
"photograph", not the subject who is photographed."
You have written on Yann's talk page
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever
"Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them online on commons.wikimedia.org.
But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not the celebrity.
Emmanuel
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