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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