[WikiEN-l] Asking for free images on living bios

[Armed Blowfish]

Doesn't even the US have restrictions on journalism?
Perhaps something along the lines of proving that
revealing information on a private figure is 'in the
public interest'?

On 27/09/2007, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's important to note that when we're talking about commercial use in
> the context of publicity & privacy rights, there are big exemptions
> under US law: art and journalism, roughly.  Editorial use (which
> Wikipedia's use of such images certainly is) is in most cases exempt,
> because of the First Amendment implications (doing otherwise would be
> an unconstitutional restraint on free speech).
>
> -Matt