[Foundation-l] Celebrity pictures

[Mark Evans]

I assume Garion96 & Larberg were speaking of the album covers Jimbo
mentioned in his post. If not, please let us know.
I'm no expert about copyright law, but I don't see how it would be possible
for a record company to give us such a 'free' image without compromising the
integrity of their copyright. All that they would be able to give us would
be an alternative image that they had no interest in protecting, which
wouldn't be useful to us. Maybe we could get free photos of bands from Sony,
but that amounts to the publicity photos mentioned earlier. I doubt that
Time Warner or UMG would give us a suitable substitute for the album
cover for Nirvana's Nevermind.

On Aug 9, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Christopher Larberg wrote:

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 23:43 +0200, Garion96 wrote:
Would it be a good idea if the foundation would ask for 'free' images from
big record companies (like Sony music entertainment), actor agencies etc. I
know any editor can do this, but it would definitely have a greater
chance of success if it is coming from the foundation.

Just to interject here, I think it's worth a shot (if someone at the
Foundation is willing to do it), but I'd be willing to bet that most of
those publicity photos are only offered under non-free licenses (limited
redistribution, no derivative works, etc.). I still think it wouldn't
hurt to at least try, though.
-- 
Christopher Larberg [[w:en:User:Slowking Man]]
<christopherlarberg at gmail.com>
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