On 8 February 2013 17:09, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay. So I looked at this a couple of times, and couldn't come up with a > good idea for "notable" people to want to deliberately record and upload > with an open license a recording of their own voice - knowing that it > *will* be abused and misused and mashed. (There's little question that > this will happen. Just because Wikimedians are pretty decent sorts doesn't > mean the rest of the world is.) > > Now, I have no objection whatsoever to supporting article subjects who > *wish* to do this, but I'm not convinced it's a good idea to actively try > to persuade them. I'm not convinced that recordings of a person's voice is > actually "information" about the person, either, except in the way that > their fingerprints are. > > Risker/Anne
I'm afraid, rather sadly, I have to agree. At a minimum, I would recommend that those donating their audio or video are cautioned very clearly about what free re-use might mean, and that the licence is certain to be irrevocable, even if we do later make a community decision to delete a file from Commons (which is highly unlikely if they are notable and the release was unambiguous). It's a nice idea, but my frank advice to a notable person would be to release on a CC-BY-SA-ND licence which means that re-use is far more likely to stay "respectful" and even though this means that Commons could not host, articles on Wikipedias could still provide a link to a stable host site that did accept the ND restriction. This is the same advice I have provided for sensitive modern cultural content, such as photographs of the general public at festivals where there is no specific release from the models, or tribal rituals which may contain children or partial nudity. Sometimes this means turning away super content, but I would much rather do that than have upset partners who may suffer reputational damage as a result. Obviously if you are notable and you don't care because your voice and image is everywhere already (and perhaps massively misused or used in parody), then perhaps the caution will not put you off that much anyway, as it would be water off a duck's back. Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l