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

[erin.adams at lp.org]

I FULLY support this!


On 2018-08-23 09:56, 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.