Getting more free-content images.

Durova writes a nice piece for the marketers recruiting more free images. Nice one!

I'm wondering how to do this for entertainers. Bad live shots, snapshots and so forth under a free content licence always supersede something that isn't free content. (Many have argued the toss on this, but as things stand that's the way things are.) I'm wondering a useful way to reliably get entertainment industry promo photos to flock to us. I suspect our really crappy examples would be a start. e.g. "Top ten site, our rules. You don't get to have a good photo under your control. You get a crappy photo that's under a suitable license, or you give us a good photo under a suitable license. The latter is probably a lot more to your liking and that of your artists."

The hardest part is publishing that somewhere it would actually get read by the target audience. Ideas?

By the way: if you have decent photos you've taken of someone who's got a Wikipedia article but no good free content photo, we'd love 'em. CC by-sa and GFDL both require your name staying attached to the image details page.

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bmovie: V For Vendetta is on Friday. They have two dancefloors and the whole pub! £8, or £6 with flyer. I will be there barring domestic necessity, probably arriving nineish.

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Saturday I am being dragged to London Zoo by the family for hairyears' birthday. I believe this is some sort of dad penance. I'll be the hungover one throwing up behind the sloth enclosure.

Oh, and I've managed to end up on-call, and therefore trapped at home, for PolyDay. BUGGERING ARSING FUCK. Begging and crawling for a swap.