[WikiEN-l] NYT: Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for Photos

[geni]

2009/7/20 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
> You are right Durova. I apologise for sidetracking things there.
>
> Do you have views on how to address situations where we have a free
> pictures of someone when they are very old, but all the pictures of
> them when they were young (and famous) are copyrighted? This can
> happen with sports stars and others. Does the presence of an arguably
> less relevant free picture (of them when they are old) dissuade people
> from attempting to get a free picture that may be more relevant to the
> article (from when they were young)?
>
> Carcharoth

Taking the age of the average wikipedian into account the general
solution involves their parents and grandparents photos and a scanner.

But realistically whatever we do we are likely to an effective image
dark age of things between about 1923 and 2005. But then we have
similar issues with photos of things outside the western world and
popular holiday destinations.

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geni