Sorry, but I was under the impression that, apart from people making public appearances where consent is implied, consent of the participants should be obtained before publication of any photograph anyway.
I fail to see how sexual content is different in this respect; perhaps what we need is a reminder of general the ethics of photography of people. -- Rama On 06/08/2010, private musings <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day all, > > I hope it's appropriate to cross-post this to both commons and foundation > lists - it seems so to me, and no doubt if there's a courtesy or practice > I'm unaware of, someone will be kind enough to point it out :-) (rude words > and nasty comments are ok, but it's better if they rhyme.) > > Discussions at the meta page where Robert Harris is posing some related > questions is gently dying down - > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content > > and over on commons we're approaching another poll about whether to adopt > the 'sexual content' policy proposal - > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content#Another_poll.3F > > What appears to be the largest point of discussion extant is whether or not > media featuring sexual content should contain at least an assertion that all > of the participants consent to the upload / publishing of the material - you > can see some folk arguing that we shouldn't apply such a condition > retrospectively, and maybe not at all - > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content#Automatic_deletions_by_noconsent_template > > I believe consent is desirable across the board in regard to sexual content, > and would like to see this sort of wording ratified as policy - > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Sexual_content&oldid=42301328#consent > > The discussions are actually pretty substantial, civil, useful, and > generally better than we've managed in the past, and of course the more > outside views on the matter, the better - so if you're at all inclined to > share your thoughts on the commons specific side of how WMF handles sexual > content, please do pipe up, either ahead of, or as part of the upcoming > poll.... > > cheers, > > Peter, > PM. > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
