Sydney, I completely agree with your opinion and comments.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:IDENT
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SCOPE
Roberta
2011/9/12 Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com
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@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@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:17, Arnaud HERVE arnaudherve@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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