I suggest you work on getting these photos as
individual editors. After all "The Foundation"
consists of around a dozen people and there are many
thousands of individual editors. I imagine at least
three dozens of those editors are particulary
interested in these pictures. While at the same time
the people that make up "The Foundation" propably feel
as if they each have three dozen priority tasks to do
already. Anr I do not believe this project would be a
priority by Foundation standards. So practically
speaking you are *not* more likely to succeed in
obtaining photos if it is left up to "The Foundation".
Birgitte SB
--- James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Generally speaking, I am a weak defender of the use
of copyrighted pictures
of living people (except when there's a freebie
available) because I don't
think they have the time to have a picture of
themselves taken so it can be
used on Wikipedia. (Don't hit me back with semantics
-- I know it would be
usable for more than Wikipedia.)
However, I do believe we should be persuing an
active effort to obtain
free-use photographs of living people wherever
possible. I'm talking about
an effort at the Foundation level.
On 8/25/06, Garion96 <garion96(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/9/06, Garion96 <garion96(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding Jimmy Wales's comment here
>
concerning fair use.
>
> To quote "In general, ordinary publicity photos
of celebrities should
not
> be used in Wikipedia unless they are released
under a free license. We
are
> powerful enough now that we can insist on this,
and get it, from just
about
> any celebrity, or we can get a free photo in a
number of different ways.
> Using fair use in such cases discourages us
from
creatively looking for
a
> way to enlarge the commons."
>
> Would it be a good idea if the foundation would
ask for 'free'
images
from
> big record companies (like Sony music
entertainment), actor agencies
etc. I
> know any editor can do this, but it would
definitely have a greater
> chance of success if it is coming from the
foundation.
Garion96
Anymore comments on this? Ixnays, supports and the
like? :)
Garion
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