Ameer on the front page of Wikipedia

Could use a better picture:

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That's AA when he played for NU back in 1981. After that game he got a top score on Galaga.

 
Mills said:
Bucky said:
Wikipedia seems to always have terrible photos of living people
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Why the hell is that? So much quality info and few quality pictures.
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Like Tree Planter said, copyrights. People being protective of their image and not understanding the nature of wikipedia or photographers just being photographers. Heck the FBI even threatened to sue wiki for including its seal on the bureau's page. Stupid.

One would think that his photo from the university's official website, huskers.com, could be used as it's a public entity and such works are often open - for example works of the Federal Government enter the public domain upon their creation (so you can print as many copies of the 9/11 commission report as you want and sell them) but works of state governments are left to the states to release and it looks like they've copyrighted it.

Ameer could just take a photo of himself, email it to someone, grant open license and have them upload it.

 
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Bucky said:
Mills said:
Bucky said:
Wikipedia seems to always have terrible photos of living people
Click to expand...
Why the hell is that? So much quality info and few quality pictures.
Click to expand...
Like Tree Planter said, copyrights. People being protective of their image and not understanding the nature of wikipedia or photographers just being photographers. Heck the FBI even threatened to sue wiki for including its seal on the bureau's page. Stupid.

One would think that his photo from the university's official website, huskers.com, could be used as it's a public entity and such works are often open - for example works of the Federal Government enter the public domain upon their creation (so you can print as many copies of the 9/11 commission report as you want and sell them) but works of state governments are left to the states to release and it looks like they've copyrighted it.

Ameer could just take a photo of himself, email it to someone, grant open license and have them upload it.
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Someone could also take a picture of him and upload it with an open copyright license.

 
Tree Planter said:
Bucky said:
Mills said:
Bucky said:
Wikipedia seems to always have terrible photos of living people
Click to expand...
Why the hell is that? So much quality info and few quality pictures.
Click to expand...
Like Tree Planter said, copyrights. People being protective of their image and not understanding the nature of wikipedia or photographers just being photographers. Heck the FBI even threatened to sue wiki for including its seal on the bureau's page. Stupid.

One would think that his photo from the university's official website, huskers.com, could be used as it's a public entity and such works are often open - for example works of the Federal Government enter the public domain upon their creation (so you can print as many copies of the 9/11 commission report as you want and sell them) but works of state governments are left to the states to release and it looks like they've copyrighted it.

Ameer could just take a photo of himself, email it to someone, grant open license and have them upload it.
Click to expand...
Someone could also take a picture of him and upload it with an open copyright license.
Click to expand...
Does it matter where they take it? Can I go to a CFB game take a picture and own it for all uses? NFL?

 
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