[Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

[Robert Rohde]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/14 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
>> To avoid the very real chance that the subjects of explicit photos are
>> underage or have not given publishing consent, I would like to see
>> Commons require proof of model release, and age verification, for
>> explicit images.
>
> And how exactly would they do that? Upload a picture of the model
> holding their passport and a sign saying "I consent to pictures of me
> naked to be used for any purpose" in a few dozen languages? That
> doesn't sound practical to me...

I don't think having specific material documentation is necessarily as
important as asking the questions and getting an identifiable person
on the other end to assert that these issues have been considered
responsibly.  We accept copyright releases into OTRS that are little
more than written assurances that everything is okay, and I don't see
why we couldn't ask for the same thing here.  And, in the unfortunate
event that things aren't okay, we would be able to point a specific
individual who misled us rather than simply saying that we closed our
eyes and didn't care.

-Robert Rohde