You might consider sexual content as material which has a fairly high risk
of causing harm if published without consent, I guess.

Further, I think that we currently only require consent of privately taken
photos if the person is identifiable - so for example if someone were to
upload an image of them have sex with their ex-boyfriend, and perhaps only
his genitals are visible, then under current practice, commons would not
require his consent to publish this picture - I'm suggesting that it's
probably best if we do require consent from all parties, for all sexual
content (see the proposal page for specific definitions) - really because I
do tend to think it's a higher risk for causing harm.

cheers,

Peter,
PM.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Rama Neko <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
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