[Boston-editorial] Proposal: pictures required for centered articles

[Matthew Williams]

I don't think Pete's proposal is a bad one. My only concern is about 
copyright issues. Can we find the pictures we need without violating 
copyright laws? We don't want to do anything that might open room for 
legal trouble. Also, while I oppose those forms of intellectual 
property rights laws that protect large corporations, the fact is some 
people make their living as free-lance photographers, a pretty marginal 
occupation, and copyright laws can protect people like this from 
getting ripped off. Therefore I'm not sure I'd want to violate 
copyright laws in such cases, even if we could get away with it. -- 
Matt

On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Sofia JarrinT wrote:

> Sounds like a great idea.
> --- Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> You may, of course.  I think we can encourage folks
>> to include images but we can't always expect them.
>> It is actually very simple tho for an editor to go
>> online, pull an appropriate image and use it with
>> the article.  Often it does not even require any
>> special program or skills. Maybe we just need some
>> training on this and whoever opts to center an
>> article can be responsible for this.
>>
>> -Pete
>>
>>
>>
>> Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> If I may... I think that's an excellent idea. We
>> could ask people who submit articles to please
>> provide
>> pictures with those, as a general rule.
>>
>> Sofia
>> --- Pete Stidman
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Our site looks tons better when there is a picture
>>> with the article. As editors I think we should all
>>> get this ability, and always do it I know some of
>>> us don't have the savvy yet but I think we could
>> get
>>> it. This should be a topic at the next website
>>> meeting perhaps.
>>>
>>> -Pete
>>>
>>>
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