Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com writes:
For famous people, I think it's generally not true that contributors can't take pictures of them.
Thats true. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Otway for example (small values of "famous", sure), but it only goes so far.
We don't want a drawing of the protester in front of the Tiananmen tanks.
We don't want a sketch of Dolly the Sheep, but she doesn't make a lot of personal appearances these days (would a clone do?)
Must we really wait the 100 odd years until these fall into the public domain?
We now know what RMS would say, and he seemed more positive about Fair Use provision than it has been suggested he would be.