On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 10:17:19PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I suggest that in the future, DebConf adopts a codex which asks of > participants only to publish those photos for which they have > received explicit consent, before or afterwards. I hope not. While I don't take photos myself, I often enjoy other people's photos. I think you are trying to place an unreasonable and undue burden on the photographers. The starting point must be that people usually have the right to publish their photos. Since in those cases the most you can do is to kindly ask them to not photograph you or remove a photo of you, I do consider it entirely unreasonable to try to place on them the heavy burden of having to obtain consent before publishing. That would make photography unnecessarily difficult in a case where there can be no reasonable expectation of privacy. I, and I suspect many others, like having photos of DebConf. The effect of what you demand would be to suppress many photos that nobody would object to simply because someone somewhere could have had an objection to the photo and the photographer never got around to asking. No. In the case of quite normal, innocent photos that burden should not be on the photographers. Sami
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