Delirium wrote:
Sean Barrett wrote:
If each
wikipedian took 10 pictures of the interesting things he
visits, I'm
sure we would not need nonfree pictures any more.
No matter how many pictures I take of the interesting things I visit,
I will never take a picture of Bob Keeshan (1927-2004) -- and you will
not find a free picture of him.
However, it may not be impossible to acquire one eventually. As
Wikipedia gets more famous, the estates of famous people may start to
dislike the fact that that person's biography has a conspicuous lack
of an image, and consent to GFDL-licensing an image to fill the gap.
If we fill it in with a fair use image, that removes the incentive.
Maybe, maybe not - a site that wants to drive traffic will have an
incentive to
keep the pics out, and readers unaware of all this will just go to the site
directly, blow off WP. It would "game the system" :-) better to have the
fair use picture up for a long time, get lots of visitors, then announce a
campaign to replace with a licensed picture, give the estate a chance to
offer
a licensed picture as an alternative to the fan's snapshot showing him
picking
his nose while going into the Mustang Ranch. :-) If you don't have such a
picture already, Photoshop/GIMP is very helpful...
As they say, Be Bold!
Stan