I wonder whether it would be worth developing a guideline, or just
writing an essay about it on Commons. Trouble is, I know so little
about how the Commons works -- I don't even know how to find their
list of policies.
My thinking is that voyeurism is increasingly becoming a criminal
offence, and an essay about it might help to identify the kinds of
images we should be wary of uploading. For example, in the UK, a
person commits a criminal offence if:
"(a) he records another person (B) doing a private act,
"(b) he does so with the intention that he or a third person will, for
the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, look at an image of B
doing the act, and
"(c) he knows that B does not consent to his recording the act with
that intention."
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/67
The problem with all of this on Wikimedia is the anonymity factor.
People could say "I am the model and I hereby give consent." I don't
know how we get round that.
Sarah
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:45, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, not really. The assumption is toward the uploader
having the appropriate
permission if it appears to be an amateur image and it has not obvious signs
of being a copyright violation. People have been in disagreement about
whether images that are "controversial content" should be be held to a
higher level of scrutiny. Some people say that we are be biased if we
require a higher level of scrutiny for images of naked people. I disagree,
but think that we really need to have a higher level of scrutiny for all
images with identifiable people. By requiring model consent, we would solve
a large part of the problems with the images on Commons.
Sydney Poore
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:17, Arnaud HERVE <arnaudherve(a)x-mail.net>
wrote:
IMO, the policies need to be tweaked so that
admins like him will have
better policy to work with.
Do we have specific Commons policies on voyeurism and invasion of privacy?
Sarah
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