On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
Fortunately someone else (also from the music industry, no less) got it right:
"(Wikipedia is) rooted in fact. It's not promotional. Especially these days when the internet is full of artists trying to essentially ram their message down your throat, I think a fan is a lot more receptive to a simple, no-hype approach."
This is an interesting comment. Could it lead to a response from the music industry about our use of album covers. That has been a thorny issue for a long time. An understanding with the music industry could more easily put that issue to bed.
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I can't honestly imagine them putting their album covers under GFDL or CC-BY-SA, but if we could get one of the most notorious anti-sharing industries out there to do it, I'm all for it. How would you propose to approach them about it? I think we might even have better luck approaching individual bands who own album covers (though this would be better if we did not allow the nonfree versions, the number of free images of living people skyrocketed once we started disallowing nonfree ones).