On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama ramaneko@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.