Actually it was the first (and pretty much the only) reason I thought of
that people might not release their likeness.
But I agree we should try for the full Monty first.
On 04/02/2011 12:02, Liam Wyatt wrote:
I don't know about the UK, but I know that the
Dutch chapter secured a
content donation from their parliament of the official portraits of
the whole government as a job lot. That might be easier than trying to
get them one by one. I also heard that the German chapter was going to
try and get photos of all candidates in the lead up to their next
elections.
Amusingly, I tried to get the Federal Parliament of Australia (via the
Australian parliamentary library) to donate their official portraits
of the government along the lines of the dutch model. The request went
up the food chain to some anonymous bureaucrat in the parliamet from
whence the response came back down that, No, we could not release the
official portraits under a cc-by-sa license as that would encourage
the usage of those photos to satirize the politicians.
A more ludicrous reason why a free-license can't be used I have yet to
hear!
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog <http://wittylama.com/blog>
Peace, love & metadata
On 4 February 2011 11:45, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com
<mailto:dgerard@gmail.com>> wrote:
Do we have a programme to get photos of every MP? Standard templates,
etc? I need to ask mine, [[Stella Creasy]], for one ...
- d.
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