On 8/1/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Unfortunately
this is common on some articles, especially the pop
culture stuff. In some articles the lead pic is different every week
with fans switching it out for their new favorite, in others I've seen
clear public domain pics replaced with fuzzy screenshots.
I suppose if I were a more dutiful Wikipedian, I'd go take pictures
of all the celebrities passing through Vegas, but truthfully,
vegetables still seem more interesting! :-)
There are enough celebrity photographers in Los Angeles to last a
lifetime of free images if we could set up a rapport with them to
release some of their less-likely-to-be-commercially-viable images
under free licenses. Free exposure and circulation for them, free
images for us. I don't see how they'd have anything to lose (and it is
not as if the places they would sell their photos to regularly are
going to suddenly want to re-license their whole magazine as CC-BY-SA
either, so the odds of it even competing with their regular business
is pretty low).
It'd be great if we could do some sort of photo drive. I have a
feeling there are lots of photographers out there who wouldn't mind
releasing a few of their pics to WP under a CC-BY-SA license if we
could just put the question to them directly.
FF