And if you release the photos under the GFDL rather than a Creative Commons
license it's highly unlikely there would be any commercial usage as the GFDL
would have to be attached (to the newspaper, book or photo) and it's a long
document. Newspapers and books (the two more likely uses of your pictures)
would probably rather pay you to use the picture as they're not going to
include the GFDL in their publication. We have a few professional
photographers on commons that do this to protect their living and still let
us use their pictures under the copyleft GFDL. In fact, in the case of the
person who this long thread is about, he is a professional photographer who
released the image under the GFDL so he can get some sort of compensation if
somebody wants to use it commercially.
-Yonatan
On 2/27/07, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Walter van Kalken wrote:
1) Non Thai people will not know them so they will
probably be deleted
from commons in no time, it would take time for the Thai and other
communities to write articles on them as info on them is scarce and in
English virtually non existing.
Well, write Name Surname, Thai tv star. Just a couple of words to state
they're notable
(of most I wouldn't even be able to give
their names, I know they are on tv regularly though)
Hopefully you won't upload something like [[Image:The fat guy from Thai
tv.jpg]], otherwise it would be very hard to search for them and making
a use of them
2) I have seen people "upgrade" pictures
resulting in horrible colours
on paintings and other pictures. Usually this means imho pictures get
maimed.
That doesn't seem to happen often. Some people don't realise that colors
on CRT and LCD monitors don't look the same, sometimes there is a real
improvement. And of course you can always discuss.
3) I do not want these pictures to be used
commercially (although I
could solve this by uploading low quality small pictures)
Would YOU be able to earn money from copyright on your pictures? If you
release them under a free license, no one will really make money by
selling your picture, since it's available for free. Of course, a
commercial application would be to include the picture on a book about
the person; you may earn reputation as a photographer if someone sees
the photo author: WVK so in the end commons could be a good way for
photographers looking to self-promote themselves.
Marco (Cruccone)
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