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(a)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