On 7/31/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
At en we have proven largely willing to say to photographers that their work is not valued. We pay a kind of lip service to how great it is to have freely-licensed material, but it is regularly replaced by more professional-looking images found elsewhere on the web under a "fair use" claim. That would certainly suggest that doing photography for en is not worth one's time.
Jkelly
I concur with this statement. I found a free image one time, put it on the article, it was reverted a few times until finally the fair use image was deleted (7 days orphan). Of course then the fair use image was again uploaded, some story again. :) Currently it seems to be stable.
And this was not an image I made, just one I found so I don't mind that much. But if an editor was the photographer of that image (put way more time into it, making the photograph etc) I really can imagine he would be extremely discouraged by the whole ordeal.
Garion96