On 7/21/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
In any case, I think the worry about copyright is ignoring the real problem: WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PHOTOGRAPHERS! Even if we ignore the advantages of being able to work with the creator, when the copyright holder uploads their own content our problems are greatly reduced.
Here's an evil hack - waive the one-month requirement if we see the image has metadata showing camera as the source...
That is an evil hack... mostly because it wouldn't be hard to implement.
But seriously, I'm not sure we can do much to encourage photography; it's like trying to get people to write about the Sphaerosepalaceae rather than Friends episodes.
Is it really the same thing?
Writing about Sphaerosepalaceae and Friends episodes both require real work.. both are creating content. The imbalance we see is because more people are interested in Friends. Photography isn't like that.... I'd agree it would be the same if I was lamenting the lack of illustrations on [[Sphaerosepalaceae]] verses [[Friends episode X]].
I've always regarded our lack of photographers as a product of the greater startup time consumption (can't really take half a picture), combined with our culture which isn't that friendly to photographers.