Although interesting, this is one of the stranger proposals to deal with this issue.  It's like saying BLP vios are okay, if only done in small font.  The images themselves are a significant part of the issue, and covering the event without using the images is incomplete.  We can make a conscious decision to sacrifice encyclopedia quality for the goal of free content, and in so doing diverge from most every other information source int he world, but if so that's what it is.