Why don't people "just get" copyleft? To me it's obvious, at least immediately. I admit I've not traveled too far down the rabbit hole, but it seems to make sense--specifically, in this case right here.
Appearing in this New York Times article, a celebrity photographer says...
“To me the problem is the Wikipedia rule of public use,” Mr. Avenaim said. “If they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow photographers to maintain the copyright.”
Basically, Wikipedia (and I believe rightfully so!) only allows certain Creative-Commons-licensed images to be used in the encyclopedia. Here comes Jerry Avenaim complaining about how he's going to lose soooo much money if he gives away one image of each celebrity he has.
In the Open Source world, you hear about this a lot. In the Drupal world, Earl Miles (merlinofchaos) is one of the largest contributors to the Drupal project (and I luff his work), and also on the payroll at a huge corporation. Contributors to large open-source projects like Linux get picked up by Red Hat or Ubuntu, and so on.
I challenge Jerry Avenaim to make a big public deal out of how he's contributing a whole bunch of his high-res images to Wikipedia to solve this problem; my hunch is, his photography will get noticed (if it's good enough) and he'll end up with [gasp!] MORE WORK.
