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

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Oh sorry i didnt know this was still a discussion. mabye i misunderstood pete but yesterday i thought he told me I should do that, thats why theres pictures up on all the articles now.

Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com> wrote:Here's a link for Public Domain images and art:

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html

cheers,
sofia
--- Matthew Williams wrote:

> 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 
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 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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