On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:27:48PM -0000, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Delirium said:
*Somewhere* we have to draw a line, I think, but
we just all disagree
on where. For example, many would argue that adding a
rotten.com
image of a car crash to [[car accident]] is inappropriate, despite it
being clearly on topic and arguably informative (an image gives a much
different understanding of what flying through a windshield really is
like as opposed to a text description).
That sounds like a pretty good idea, though
rotten.com may object. There
are probably plenty of public domain US car crash pictures.
I haven't seen rotten.com's collection of car-crash pictures, but I've
read many of their "Rotten Library" articles, most of which seem to be
quite good research on unusual and icky subjects (from trepanation to Al
Qaida, from SpongeBob SquarePants to the Gunpowder Plot). They do tend
to have a lot of images, though I suspect many of them are a little bit
copyright-infringe-ish around the edges.
Having pictures of an actual car crash would have other problems, though
-- for one, permission from the persons involved in the crash. We don't
want to infringe upon the privacy of them or their heirs.
--
Karl A. Krueger <kkrueger(a)whoi.edu>