On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Stephen Bain<[email protected]> wrote: >> Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad > ... >> 'To me the problem is the Wikipedia >> rule of public use,' says Jerry Avenaim, a celebrity photographer. 'If >> they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow >> photographers to maintain the copyright.'" > > We should definitely take advice from a professional photographer who > doesn't understand what a licence is. >
I think that when we're dealing with celebrities, it is both in our and their interest to have a good photo on Wikipedia or Commons. They look very happy to pay a good photographer to get a good photo of them, why can't they pay a bit more so that the photographer releases some photos under a free license? Is the lobby of photographers really so powerful? At the moment the only alternative celebs have is hoping no random Wikipedian takes a photo of them and once they're dead a nice copyrighted photo can be uploaded on the projects that allow fairuse... I don't think many celebs really want this ;) Cruccone _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
