2010/5/13 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com>: > Samuel Klein wrote: >> >> I agree strongly with this. You are right to point out the connection >> to improving BLP policies -- we should be much more careful to >> confirming model rights for people in any potentially exploitative or >> embarrassing photos. >> >> Such ideas have been around for a long time. What are the arguments >> against implementing stronger requirements for images of people? >> > > Not an argument as such, but I would imagine that > with regard to amateur photography of all sorts, in > the long term the main effect would be to educate > them in the correct practices of model rights. After > all I would expect that amateur photographers would > not really have great difficulty in obtaining model > rights, once they know that is a requirement.
Why just amateur photos? Professional should respect model rights as much as amateur photos. > None of these is an argument against, as such, just > pointing out some of the ramifications that might > follow. My guess is that after a lot of existing images > were removed, the ratio of new images uploaded would > infact be skewed *in* *favor* of amateur images, > rather than *against*. I could be wrong of course. Interesting. Why do you think so? -- Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <tolkiend...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
