Suppose I were in New York and went to TeaNY and took a picture of Moby waiting tables (he does sometimes; he owns the place). I would then own the copyright to that picture. /But/ could it ever be released under the GNU FDL? See, there are limitations on what can be done with pictures of living (or even recently deceased) people--they can't, for instance, be used to advertise anything without the permission of that person or the estate. These conditions seem more restrictive than those of the GNU FDL. So is it at all possible to release a picture like that onto wikipedia? Who knows anything about this?
I ask this not as a /completely/ rhetorical question--my town is somewhat active politically, and we have had several famous & controversial people come speak--e.g. Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, and Bobby Seales within the last few years. And I could easily enough get a picture of them myself; a few months back Seales spoke in a room barely bigger than my living room.
regards,
kq
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