David Goodman wrote:
This discussion has forgotten about one of the traditional media that work very well with computer based systems: drawing. A public figure can try to prevent himself from being photographed except under terms he dictates, but he can not (at least in the US) prevent an artist from drawing or painting him based on whatever images are available, in any way the artist may please, fair or unfair, characteristic or satyrical, and publishing it as desired--as long as it is not an actual reproduction of the original.
This worked a treat on our article for the author Jim Butcher. I posted a request for an image on his fan forum and the favourite image turned out to be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:JimButcher_sepia.jpg
Surely any author with even a modest fan-base can manage this ;-)
HTH HAND