[WikiEN-l] NYT: Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It's a Desert for Photos
Steve Summit
scs at eskimo.com
Mon Jul 20 19:21:56 UTC 2009
The Cunctator wrote:
> Yeah, the article is kind of premised on a lie.
Was it? It rang perfectly true to me.
Our de-facto policy is that we utterly prefer having no photo at
all to having an improperly licensed one, and we utterly reject
any of the opportunities that fair-use law would easily grant us.
Corollary 1: most living celebrities will have amateur snapshots.
Corollary 2: most dead celebrities will have no photo at all.
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