The notion that we must *urgently* photograph/document/scan something is a feeling that I have experienced first hand with reportage photography of elderly celebrities [1]. If you do not photograph them, they have a nasty tendency to die without a Free iconography. That yields either articles that lack images, or articles illustrated by questionable invocation of the US "Fair Use" doctrine [2]. -- Rama
[1] A concrete example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot ; now illustrated with a slightly unsharp photograph, I'm sorry to say. [2] Under the Wikipedia-en doctrine, "fair use" can be used when an image *cannot* be found (not merely when we simply happen not to have one). That has yielded examples like the biography of Dr. Ivins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins where after his death, a Fair Use image was used before somebody found that a Free photograph was in fact available. This hinders the dissemination of Free images and displays inconsistencies in the application of our inner regulations. On 23 September 2011 03:53, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice essay emijrp. I think this essay belongs on meta, as it > pertains to the archival and curation of primary sources (Commons, > Wikisource) rather than crowd sourced creation of secondary and > tertiary sources (Wikipedia and Wikibooks). > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:43 AM, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I have written an essay (my first one)[1] about the idea "There is a > > deadline". It is opposite to the old essay (from 2006) which holds that > > there is no deadline. > > > > I hope my redaction is good enough to explain my opinion about this > topic. > > Please, if you find errors, fix them, I'm not very fluent in English. > > Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > emijrp > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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