Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Sam; I think that this is more of a Commons discussion. While I disagree with much of what you say, I agree that this class of image, by its very nature, requires more scrutiny. Serious thought should be given to a Nude Model Policy of requiring uploaders to answer about five questions under pe

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/30 Peter Jacobi : > David Gerard wrote: >> At the moment pictures with people in are tagged with a warning that a >> reuser may have to consider model release and personality rights, and >> Commons guarantees nothing. It's not clear from your message why this >> is inadequate. > I don't s

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Muhammad Alsebaey
On a totally off-topic note, Category:SuicideGirls looks to me like preview pictures to promote a commercial site. While I can see some use for some of those pictures (like piercing articles, etc), the collection as a whole would not fall ,at least IMHO, under "Must be realistically useful for educ

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-30 Thread Ray Saintonge
Delirium wrote: > Anthony wrote: > >> My point of view is that the proposed license update is a violation of the >> moral rights of the contributors. If Mike is going to deny that moral >> rights exist in the first place, then I feel the need to explain that they >> do. >> > The problem is

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Snow
Ray Saintonge wrote: > Michael Snow wrote: > >> Requirements like that (the US used to >> require a copyright notice) have been stripped away as an unreasonable >> burden on authors. >> > I don't think that that was the reason. The publishers would be the > ones to make sure that the no

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-30 Thread Ray Saintonge
Michael Snow wrote: > Requirements like that (the US used to > require a copyright notice) have been stripped away as an unreasonable > burden on authors. I don't think that that was the reason. The publishers would be the ones to make sure that the notice was there anyway. Like abandoning the

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On Friday 30 January 2009 01:02:41 Chad wrote: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:That%27s_why_my_mom_always_told_me > >_to_cross_my_legs_when_I_wore_a_skirt.jpg > > > a usage for the first of the two images, but the latter holds > no educational merit whatsoever (and the page title is hard

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Obviously I like it that my picture of a wild boar is used on a > Russian website. They asked, nice. But I take more pride in KNOWING > this than in having my name on their website. This point brings to mind my early days on

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, So you are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. There is the license and the uploader AND it may be PD. The cost of adding this is not calculated as there is no functionality (as far as I know) that does it. When I print at my copy shop, I get a prestine copy. Remeber these are typical

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Ray Saintonge
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > When I print a poster, and the license and the contributors have to be > printed on it as well, the image of the picture is spoiled for me. This > would be a reason for me to return the printed poster. So let us be > practical, WHERE do you want to have all the information

Re: [Foundation-l] General Assembly and guided tour / Mitgliederversammlung und Führung (Swiss Nation al Library)

2009-01-30 Thread Mark (Markie)
try http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediach-l/attachments/20090130/8dc29ea1/attachment-0002.pdf regards mark On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:34 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > that gives a 404 > > 2009/1/30 Michael Bimmler > > > The silently stripped PDF is a

Re: [Foundation-l] General Assembly and guided tour / Mitgliederversammlung und Führung (Swiss Nation al Library)

2009-01-30 Thread effe iets anders
that gives a 404 2009/1/30 Michael Bimmler > The silently stripped PDF is at (English version) > > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediach-l/attachments/20090130/8dc29ea1/attachment-0002.PDF > > Sorry about that! > > M. > > On 1/30/09, Michael Bimml

Re: [Foundation-l] General Assembly and guided tour / Mitgliederversammlung und Führung (Swiss Nation al Library)

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Bimmler
The silently stripped PDF is at (English version) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediach-l/attachments/20090130/8dc29ea1/attachment-0002.PDF Sorry about that! M. On 1/30/09, Michael Bimmler wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Michael Bimmler >> Date: 30

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Marcus Buck
Sam Johnston hett schreven: > Is it ever clear "that the depicted person agrees to the depiction"? Well, it's not, but that's actually not a very useful point. I was never in Cameroon. I have never met anybody from Cameroon. I have never seen any obvious evidence that Cameroon really exists. And

[Foundation-l] Fwd: General Assembly and guided tour / Mitgliederversammlung und Führung (Swiss National Libr ary)

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Bimmler
Begin forwarded message: > From: Michael Bimmler > Date: 30 January 2009 16:38:29 GMT+01:00 > To: memb...@wikimedia.ch, wikimediac...@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimedia CH Members] General Assembly and guided tour / > Mitgliederversammlung und Führung (Swiss National Library) > > Dear m

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Jacobi
David Gerard wrote: > At the moment pictures with people in are tagged with a warning that a > reuser may have to consider model release and personality rights, and > Commons guarantees nothing. It's not clear from your message why this > is inadequate. I don't see this tag at http://commons.wik

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread geni
2009/1/30 Marcus Buck : > The issue is pictures of genitalia, isn't it? So "NoGenitalia" *could* > be the thing you two are searching for... > > Marcus Buck Breasts are also something on an issue. It would also be somewhat tricky to make a http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopenis.svg style i

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, geni wrote: > > Not really. For example our need for portraits of people we have > articles on means that we should have several hundred thousand images > of faces. > > In addition most parts of the human anatomy don't have the same > providence issues. > > Oh yea

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Marcus Buck
geni hett schreven: > 2009/1/30 Chad : > >> Wouldn't a generic solution be more adequate? Certainly better than >> going through all of the human anatomy. >> >> -Chad >> > > > Not really. For example our need for portraits of people we have > articles on means that we should have several hu

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread geni
2009/1/30 Chad : > Wouldn't a generic solution be more adequate? Certainly better than > going through all of the human anatomy. > > -Chad Not really. For example our need for portraits of people we have articles on means that we should have several hundred thousand images of faces. In addition

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:53 AM, geni wrote: > 2009/1/30 Andrew Whitworth : > > I'm certainly anti-censorship, so I don't advocate deleting all or any > > nude photographs. However, asking uploaders a few basic questions > > about their uploaded nudes (is the depicted model above the age of > > c

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread geni
2009/1/30 Andrew Whitworth : > I'm certainly anti-censorship, so I don't advocate deleting all or any > nude photographs. However, asking uploaders a few basic questions > about their uploaded nudes (is the depicted model above the age of > consent? is the depicted model aware that this photograph

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:41 AM, David Moran wrote: > I think perhaps then the most fundamental disagreement we have is the > idea that sexual images equal "harm". > > FMF The two are not necessarily equal. There are plenty of people who, upon finding a nude picture of themselves on Wikipedia, wo

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Sam Johnston
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Marcus Buck wrote: > David Moran hett schreven: >> I think perhaps then the most fundamental disagreement we have is the idea >> that sexual images equal "harm". > > Not the images themselves equal harm. But it can mean harm to people. As > far as I have understoo

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread Marcus Buck
David Moran hett schreven: > I think perhaps then the most fundamental disagreement we have is the > idea that sexual images equal "harm". > > FMF > Not the images themselves equal harm. But it can mean harm to people. As far as I have understood this discussion, we are not talking about delet

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-30 Thread David Moran
I think perhaps then the most fundamental disagreement we have is the idea that sexual images equal "harm". FMF On 1/29/09, Nathan wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Nathan wrote: > > > > > > > To some of those people, and to others, trying to place restrictions of > any > > sort o

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is the point of off list communication when you quote from these communications ? Thanks, GerardM 2009/1/30 Sam Johnston > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Guillaume Paumier >wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Sam Johnston wrote: > > > > > > ... now the French chapter

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Sam Johnston
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/1/30 Sam Johnston : > > > I'm sure it's not the first time this subject has been raised, but now > the > > French chapter has dragged us into the world of commercial publishing > it's > > probably worth [re]considering. Perhaps it is eno

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/30 Sam Johnston : > I'm sure it's not the first time this subject has been raised, but now the > French chapter has dragged us into the world of commercial publishing it's > probably worth [re]considering. Perhaps it is enough initially to tag images > lacking releases accordingly, with a v

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Sam Johnston
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Sam Johnston wrote: > > > > ... now the French chapter has dragged us into the world of commercial > publishing... > > As already pointed out by several people (including me [1]), this is > blatantly fals

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hello, On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Sam Johnston wrote: > > ... now the French chapter has dragged us into the world of commercial > publishing... As already pointed out by several people (including me [1]), this is blatantly false. Could you please stop spreading this deliberate misinforma

[Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Sam Johnston
> Should we take no steps to protect people who have no wish to have their photos published worldwide on a site owned by a charity devoted to knowledge? Or to put it another way, is an identifiable image of a person really free if that person has not given a model release (irrespective of whether

Re: [Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

2009-01-30 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/1/28 Thomas Dalton : > The new GFDL license only allows relicensing under CC-BY-SA of things > either published for the first time on the wiki or added to the wiki > before the new license was announced. Since this was published in a > book first and added to Wikipedia since the new license w

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I could not disagree more with you. People who work on Wikipedia do this because they make a difference. This making a difference is what I think is of paramount importance, what makes people proud of this endeavour. When people use my pictures and my ,it makes a difference how they use it. Bu

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I selected a great picture from Commons. I loaded it on my memory stick. I > went to a copy shop and had it printed in poster format for little money. No > fuss. I did not even need to bring it on a memory stick, I could have > downloaded the picture at the copy shop

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen >> wrote: >> > > >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> >>> But I am sure there are no applicable moral rights >>> to let's say correcting missing space around punctuation. >>> >> I have made some studies, a