--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Christopher-
What about pictures of: Dead, bloody people (common on european TV)
Are they? It's been a while since I last watched TV, but my impression always was that US TV is more violent than Euro-TV. I may be wrong, of course.
On French Paris Match (paper magazine), last summer, saw photo of israeli soldier killed in combat, brain cavity was emply, brian had been removed by impact, cranium was 1/2 missing, and photo showed the inside of the head with the brain mostly removed, and part of the skull still attached and hanging. Soldier was on a stretcher, others were mulling about paying him no attention. This kind of photo, we don't see on US tv/print media.
Answer: Depends on context - we don't needlessly throw pictures of "dead, bloody" people into articles. Why would we? An article about decompensation, rigor mortis etc. might include an image, but obviously, the more generally offensive such a picture would be, the more likely we would want to link to it instead of displaying it inline.
Step by step bomb making
Could be legally problematic.
Deformed lifeforms from genetic experiments
Sure, if they warrant an article.
Injured people from combat (limbs tangled, guts spilled, heads disfigured)
Definitely, but only in an article that is explicitly about the effects of war; in a main article about war they should be linked to.
Medical pictures of diseased bodypart
Definitely useful, but preferably link instead of displaying inline.
War crimes (remember the photo of the US officer executing a vietnamese during the vietnam war?)
Definitely, see above re: combat.
Sexual acts, such as penetration, arousal, nipple clamps,
bondage,
etc.
Legally problematic. Nipple clamps no problem.
Domestic violence
Link to.
Aborted Foetuses
Link to.
Link to but where? What webserver do you trust will be there 2, 5 years down the road, with the same URL with the same picture?
The problem with a linked-to URL (and this has been discussed prior) is that the picture may change, the picture server may disappear, or the picture server may change its licensing.
As far as legality of images, we should let lawyers do that. I think this would be a good thing to spend money on: asking real legal advice on what photos can and cannot be posted. Anything that can be posted, on a legal standpoint, and adds to the imformation conveyed in the article, should be.
===== Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com 818.943.1850 cell http://www.christophermahan.com/
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