When you're publishing to a list, or in the specific case Dag was referring to, which was submitting an image to a Japanese photo contest, it is best to be informed. If all you're doing is posting to the web, then you're more or less right. Then it's up to the consumer to be informed.
Bob W wrote: >As long as you know what to ask. > >Why would it occur to somebody in a culture where it is routine for >parents to photograph their naked children on a beach to thing that >other cultures might be uptight about it? > >Does anyone here, for example, consider the difficulties that might be >caused to people in some Muslim countries if you show a woman with her >face uncovered, perhaps driving a car? > >I'll bet nobody here has ever given it a single moment's thought, yet >we expect other people to know all the peculiar nuances of our own >moral and legal hang-ups. > >Publish and be damned! > >-- >Cheers, > Bob > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>Behalf Of DagT >>Sent: 20 July 2006 09:42 >>To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>Subject: Re: PESO - Jump >> >>I know >> >>Den 20. jul. 2006 kl. 10.44 skrev P. J. Alling: >> >> >> >>>You can ask. >>> >>>DagT wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Den 20. jul. 2006 kl. 06.05 skrev Keith McGuinness: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I am NOT saying that what you did is in anyway wrong but you've >>>>>got to remember that the LAWS in other countries might be >>>>>different, not only the customs. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Well, that only brings a new problem. How much do we have to >>>> >>>> >know > > >>>>about foreign law? How much does US citizens know about >>>> >>>> >>our law, and >> >> >>>>how much do we know about other countries? >>>> >>>>In relation to the Nikon Contest many years ago (so long that I >>>> >>>> >may > > >>>>remember wrong) I think there was restriction in Japan against >>>>showing pubic hair. So shaved models got through. How was >>>> >>>> >>I supposed >> >> >>>>to know, or understand, that? >>>> >>>>DagT >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>-- >>>When you're worried or in doubt, >>> Run in circles, (scream and shout). >>> >>> >>>-- >>>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>PDML@pdml.net >>>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >>> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>PDML@pdml.net >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
