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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Jan 23, 2008 2:24 PM, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
>
> Yes, who in the world would do that, apart the BBC, CNN, the Times, the
> Washington Post, and bleeding everybody ?

Perhaps you could help geni and I by making some screen captures of
articles on the BBC, CNN, or better some online encyclopedias and
drawing a circle around the photographer's name.

Seriously. We're apparently not seeing what you are seeing.

> > 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.
> We don't *have* to do anything. And how would that be a problem ?

Treating contributors equally is an ethical obligation and arguably
required by some of the licenses.

It would be unfortunate to have to reject some images because we don't
want to display "Image by fagssuck.com" in the body of an article.