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Thanks, Techman224 On 2012-03-10, at 10:03 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board published the following > Resolution: > > > ---o0o--- > > The Wikimedia Foundation Board affirms the value of freely licensed > content, and we pay special attention to the provenance of this content. We > also value the right to privacy, for our editors and readers as well as on > our projects. Policies of notability have been crafted on the projects to > limit unbalanced coverage of subjects, and we have affirmed the need to > take into account human dignity and respect for personal privacy when > publishing biographies of living persons. > > However, these concerns are not always taken into account with regards to > media, including photographs and videos, which may be released under a free > license although they portray identifiable living persons in a private > place or situation without permission. We feel that it is important and > ethical to obtain subject consent for the use of such media, in line with > our special mission as an educational and free project.* We feel that > seeking consent from an image's subject is especially important in light of > the proliferation of uploaded photographs from other sources, such as > Flickr, where provenance is difficult to trace and subject consent > difficult to verify.* > > In alignment with these principles, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of > Trustees urges the global Wikimedia community to: > > - Strengthen and enforce the current Commons guideline on photographs of > identifiable > people<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people> > with > the goal of requiring evidence of consent from the subject of media, > including photographs and videos, when so required under the guideline. The > evidence of consent would usually consist of an affirmation from the > uploader of the media, and such consent would usually be required from > identifiable subjects in a photograph or video taken in a private place. > This guideline has been longstanding, though it has not been applied > consistently. > - Ensure that all projects that host media have policies in place > regarding the treatment of images of identifiable living people in private > situations. > - Treat any person who has a complaint about images of themselves hosted > on our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encourage others > to do the same. > > > Approved 10-0. > ---o0o--- > > Now, I am aware of a particular set of photographs on Commons, taken in a > private situation. They were taken from Flickr by an anonymous contributor > and uploaded to Commons. The images are no longer available on Flickr, > having been removed long ago.Over the past year, the photographer has > requested several times via OTRS that Commons delete these images. He said > that the subjects could not understand how these images of them ended up on > Commons, and were aghast to find them there. They were never meant to be > released publicly. According to the deletion discussions, OTRS verified > that the person making the request was indeed the owner of the Flickr > account. > Yet Commons administrators have consistently, through half a dozen deletion > discussions, refused to delete the images, disregarding the objections of > isolated editors who said that hosting the images in the clear absence of > subject consent runs counter to policy. Closing admins' argument has been > that licenses once granted cannot be revoked. > Yet according to the above resolution, Commons should not be hosting these > images. Not only was consent not obtained – an endemic situation – the > images are kept even though consent has been expressly denied.Why are these > images still on the Wikimedia Foundation server? > I am happy to pass further details on to any WMF staff, steward or Commons > bureaucrat who is willing and able to review the deletion requests and OTRS > communications, and remove the images permanently. Andreas > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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