I don't contribute either. My photos appear on academic sites, articles, blogs, and advert free news services etc. I have images of things of which there are no other online sources. However, these will never appear in wikipedia precisely because they insist on them being licensed for commercial use.
They never will be, they will only ever be licensed CC-NC. If you want to use an image commercially pay the price. Oh and don't bother asking me as they are NOT for use commercially.
You have a whole load of extra issues to do with how the person is posed, the angle, what's in the background.
Except that in many cases these are formulaic. Ever wondered why it is that all those local portrait studios churn out the same type of photos?
Layout designs which include placement of lights, distance from subject, subjects distance from background. All of it is predetermined. There are even franchises that will provide a photog with camera, lights, background, etc.
All the photog has to do is make sure the subject is looking at the camera and has their eyes open.
No different from any other photo hosting site.
b) You allow them display your pics on the web, to convert them to thumbnails to so dispaly them easier, to sharpen said thumbnails so that they don't look like crap.
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That's what I said. They chose to have crap images. I chose not to supply commercial entities with my work.
I don't contribute either. My photos appear on academic sites, articles, blogs, and advert free news services etc. I have images of things of which there are no other online sources. However, these will never appear in wikipedia precisely because they insist on them being licensed for commercial use. They never will be, they will only ever be licensed CC-NC. If you want to use an image commercially pay the price. Oh and don't bother asking me as they are NOT for use commercially.
How the fuck would he know what a UK court would decide? A few years before the B v C case US courts would have decided for Bridgeman.
Except that in many cases these are formulaic. Ever wondered why it is that all those local portrait studios churn out the same type of photos?
Layout designs which include placement of lights, distance from subject, subjects distance from background. All of it is predetermined. There are even franchises that will provide a photog with camera, lights, background, etc.
All the photog has to do is make sure the subject is looking at the camera and has their eyes open.
Haven't you heard about pen and paper?
No different from any other photo hosting site. b) You allow them display your pics on the web, to convert them to thumbnails to so dispaly them easier, to sharpen said thumbnails so that they don't look like crap.
A difficult task seeing as you are impotent. What does one call a dried up Jaffa?
Stop buying CDs, pirate it off the 'net!
Inconsistent fool.