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 <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote: