[Lnc-business] May release hundreds of highly quality convention photos

[Alex Merced (LNC Vice Chair)]

I think.releasing them has no down sides, the more these are used the more exposure, love it

Alex Merced
Vice Chair of the Libertarian National Committee/LP

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 1:48 PM, brent.olsen--- via Lnc-business <lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
> 
> Fantastic!  I agree with you completely on this Wes!
> 
> In Liberty,
> Brent
> 
>> On 2018-08-23 07:56, Wes Benedict via Lnc-business wrote:
>> Dear LNC:
>> We have over 700 beautiful high quality photos from the 2018
>> convention taken by our professional photographer.
>> We had a similar set of high quality photos from our 2016 Convention
>> that staff kept tight control over, mostly using for official national
>> publications.
>> It's a trade-off between keeping them for staff's use with limited
>> publication versus making them widely available for the grassroots to
>> disseminate organically, perhaps with candidates and activists using
>> photos of themselves in campaign or state and local affiliate
>> publications. Distributing widely might be more publicity than some
>> individuals want, and perhaps some would be used in unflattering
>> memes.
>> I had this discussion with the Convention Oversight Committee and I
>> don't recall any individuals opposed to releasing all of the photos to
>> the public, with the exception of a handful that will be removed for
>> various reasons.
>> A few staff members suggested we charge a fee for each photo that is
>> downloaded, but I don't think that's a good idea. I'd like to have
>> every Libertarian share and distribute these photos widely, and use
>> them on their brochures and things to increase the image of the party.
>> We published a notice that photos would be taken on our publications.
>> For example:
>> https://libertarianconvention.org/register/
>> "TERMS AND CONDITIONS
>> 2018 Libertarian National Convention Image Use disclaimer
>> Your event attendance authorizes the Libertarian National Committee,
>> Inc. and its contractors, licensees, and assignees to: make recordings
>> and reproduce, distribute or otherwise make derivative works;
>> transmit, display and publicly perform recordings, transcriptions and
>> derivative works in any medium containing your image and/or statements
>> made at the event; telecast, air, and post all recordings and images
>> on any and all Libertarian National Committee, contractor, licensees
>> and assignees websites, printed publications and any other publishing
>> medium without any compensation or other benefits due."
>> Attached are 27 examples in low-res format. I'd like to release all
>> 700, but I'm going to give a brief opportunity for feedback from the
>> LNC and any others who might monitor this email list.
>> Another alternative could be for a team to tag all the individuals in
>> the photos and then someone send the photos directly to the
>> individual, but that's a pretty huge task to organize.
>> In any case, I think you get the picture.
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