Much appreciated. I think I know someone who took a photo of a celebrity that has a wikipedia entry. I'll suggest they put their photo up.
Interesting to note--I'd hate to see it pulled, but I'm curious if falls under fair use.
Under Chrissy Hynde's entry someone used a scan from the Pretender's Greatest Hits cover. Acceptable? I'd hate to see it be deleted...but I'm also trying to figure out if photos like that are acceptable.
& I know one of my favorite actors has a page with a non fair use photo. Because it came from newspapers and magazines. They didn't take it. I don't want to rat them out. :)
I just mentioned Hynde's entry because I want to know if a CD cover scan is acceptable? And I had to mention the picture so you guys could see it. :)
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janisc@adelphia.net wrote:
Much appreciated. I think I know someone who took a photo of a celebrity that has a wikipedia entry. I'll suggest they put their photo up.
Make sure they fully understand the implications of whatever license they choose to license the photo under, and that they choose an appropriate license (GFDL, CC-BY-SA)!
Interesting to note--I'd hate to see it pulled, but I'm curious if falls under fair use.
If it's of the person, and it is used in an article about the person, and it's a photo that is especially illustrative of the person, you can claim fair use, but *only for the article about the person*. Or at least that's my interpretation of how it works.
Under Chrissy Hynde's entry someone used a scan from the Pretender's Greatest Hits cover. Acceptable? I'd hate to see it be deleted...but I'm also trying to figure out if photos like that are acceptable.
The cover would probably be more suitable for an article about the album or the band than a member of it.
& I know one of my favorite actors has a page with a non fair use photo. Because it came from newspapers and magazines. They didn't take it. I don't want to rat them out. :)
Put it on IFD then.
I just mentioned Hynde's entry because I want to know if a CD cover scan is acceptable? And I had to mention the picture so you guys could see it. :)
Make sure that a claim of fair use applies. It is believed that under US law, an album cover is fair use if it is used to illustrate an article about the album/band.
BTW, have you considered subscribing to the English Wikipedia mailing list? You can do so at http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l or mailto:wikien-l-request@Wikipedia.org?subject=subscribe - a lot of discussion about Fair Use takes place on the English Wikipedia list, because that is one of the few Wikipedias which allows Fair Use images (if not the only one).
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