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

[David Gerard]

On 27/09/2007, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I'd imagine we'll be pretty safe as long as we don't accept seriously
> substandard photographs of celebrities, if it's similar in appearance and of
> reasonable quality compared with an official publicity photograph as appears
> on IMDb, their own website or their agents website. What we don't want is
> photographs taken on a mobile phone when someone is rushed to the hospital.
> We want free photos, but we don't want free photos likely to get us into a
> whole heap of trouble.


Our shots of celebs are, on the whole, not disrespectful in that
manner. The worst are just crappy fan snapshots. Perfect example:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schiff

You show that to a publicist and say "The alternative, Mr Anderson, is
to take the blue pill and give us a good promo photo under GFDL,
CC-by-sa or both." See if they don't get it.


- d.