[Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

[Sarah]

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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:17, Arnaud HERVE <arnaudherve at 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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