[WikiEN-l] Creation of user photographs

[Steve Bennett]

On 5/21/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> I was doing some research on ArbCom admonitions against personal attacks,
> and I came across a photograph on a user page where the subject of the
> photograph states that he is the creator.
>

Is "creator" well defined anywhere? If you have the idea to take a photo of
yourself against a particular background, choose the spot, set the camera
settings, frame it, then hand it to a passerby saying "can you press this
button when I say GO", and later download the photo, photoshop it, crop it,
upload it etc - are you really saying that that passer by is the "creator"
of the photo?

No idea if that's the case here, but I don't think the button pusher should
necessarily get all the credit, or even *any* credit if they've been told
exactly what to do.

Steve