[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

[Samuel Klein]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> El 5/14/09 3:16 PM, private musings escribió:
>>     - Commons currently hosts many pictures, taken in a public place, without
>>     the apparent permission of the subject...
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>>     highly unlikely to me to be genuinely released under a free licence [...]
>> I believe good faith is often exploited in this regard.
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> These are unrelated issues -- questionable sources and lack of subject consent...
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> -- brion

Exactly.

I would just add that many people are more concerned about the
dissemination of candid images of themselves when they are lounging,
looking silly, or having a bad hair day.  Such images should
correspondingly be monitored even more closely than images of people
preening for the camera (again, regardless of what clothing is being
worn).  I'm getting tired of pictures of casual nosepickers with no
model release being used to illustrate articles about nosepicking.
Use a real finger model, for goodness's sake'!

SJ