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.po...@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 <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:17, Arnaud HERVE <arnaudhe...@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap