On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 10:37 +0200, Mika Pflüger wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > Any solution that you come up with is going to be at the discretion > > of the photographers to conform to, because the law is not on the > > side of the photograph's subject where public spaces are concerned. > > Note that for the next DebConf the legal situation is more complicated > as Germany has much more strict "rights to the own image" than most > other countries (see e.g. > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild, in German). I am > not a lawyer and haven't dealt a lot with German image law, but in > Germany it is definitely not as clear-cut as elsewhere, even in public > spaces.
DC16 would have similar issue if it happens in France with "Droit à l'image"[1]. In this case, only a white-list seems legal. Some signs to inform attendees that video recording occurs might be required. That could be a best-practice for every DebConf anyway. IANAL. [1] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_%C3%A0_l%27image _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss