[WikiEN-l] Re: Press badges

[Jason Y. Lee]

The Accreditation policy below requires someone to be a writer for
several articles on Wikinews.  It doesn't quite fit for any person who
wants an accreditation for a press badge as a photographer.  The reason
behind my wondering over press badges is that I live in Southern California,
a place where there is opporunity to meet a celebrity.  I have no doubt,
the same applies to anyone living in other parts of the world when it comes
to sports figures and the like.  The thing is that a photograph of a famous
person on the English Wikipedia is usually a press or licensed photograph
from a professional photographer... unless the copyright has previously
expired on the photograph or they are a public figure of government, which
of course means their photograph we get is public domain.  But how do deal
with trying to get a photograph of a television star without having any of
the copyright restrictions?  The only answers I can think of is to ask the
publication to copyleft it, or take a picture of your own.

-- 
Jason Y. Lee
AKA AllyUnion

> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:14:37 -0600
> From: Nathan Reed <nathanreed at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Press badges
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
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> en.Wikinews has a process for "accrediting" Wikinewsies, though there
> has been some debate concerning our authority to accredit anyone and
> our authority to issue badges using the Wikinews logo.
> 
> See the following:
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Accreditation_policy
> 
> -N.
>