Getting more free-content images.

[reddragdiva]

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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[hellsop.livejournal.com]

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

Good luck with that. Your best bet is to draft a suitable email that you can send back to those that enquire. The "somewhere" is the really hard part.

[reddragdiva]

In the case of Durova's article, an SEO journal is actually the perfect place for it. But music types can't work computers and think of the Internet as a generalised case of MySpace.

[vatine]

There are shining beacons in the night (to wit, I interviewed for a position as network bod, sysadmin and developer for a small British-American stuidio that runs mostly on MacOSX (desktop) and Linux (server, publishing, stock-keeping, book-keeping and sundry)), you know.

[reddragdiva]

Publicists get technofear from scissors.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Write an article in the Wikipedia namespace on how to find the right people to write to and what to write. "Dear Richard Schiff's agent - did you know that one of the top websites people go to to find out about your client makes him look like a blurred, frightened rabbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schiff)? And that you can do something about it?"

[reddragdiva]

That's the perfect example photo and I'm linking it.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Music industry message boards.

[reddragdiva]

I'm just imagining the selection we'd get from Popbitch.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I can see the tags now, Uncyclopaedia style.

This picture is shit. You can help by replacing it with a free picture that is not shit.

[deerfold.livejournal.com]

I read that as "content-free images".

Actually, maybe I wasn't that far off.