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@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