[Commons-l] Musing with professional photographers: further lessons learned

[geni]

On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com> wrote:
> The point is mainly that offering these labels might grant us more
> photographs.

I doubt the number would be high enough to offset the costs involved,

> Hence, with a very little concession to the standard to which
> professional photographers are accustomed,

Accustomed to what appears to be a non standard practice?

>we could replace lots of "fair
> use" pictures with Free images, and illustrate articles which lack images.

doubtful. Remember fair use images these days are generally only
allowed on wikipedia where they would be impossible to replace.

> But this clearly is far less funny than twisting words to expose suspicious
> language of a potentially anti-democratic nature, or than acertaining the
> purity of the ideology in which people contribute their images. It's not
> like we're making a project in the, you know, real word, is it ?
>

The problem is that we are making the project in the real world and
thus have to understand that by allowing instance on Mr doe we also
end up having to allow mr wetriffs.com.


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geni