[Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

Fri May 21 01:18:43 UTC 2010

all of these problems are with other people than us.  Our copyright
license permits commercial use, and does not apply to any potential
problems other than copyright.  This has nothing to do with our
licensing.  The reason nobody has answered this before is that it is
irrelevant

The responsibility for following the law in uploads is with the
uploaders.  It would however be good to alert them to the potential
problem.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Stillwater Rising
<stillwaterising at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What I'm advocating for now is voluntary compliance, for the following
> reasons (and nobody has tried to address #3 yet):
> It's a proven system of record keeping that verifies information like
> names of subjects, stage names, date of birth, name of photographer,
> consent (implied by completing affidavit), and the date the photos
> were taken.
> The legal responsibility for the accuracy and content of 2257 records
> remains with the record holder, and personal identifying information
> of the subjects of the photos (and the legal responsibility) remain
> off-wiki.
> It fulfills the licensing requirements of Creative Commons, saying
> that our images must be made available for commercial use, however
> currently our pornographic images CAN NOT be reused legally in the US
> for commercial purposes because they lack USC 2257. This falls way
> short of our "free content" ideals (as well as Commons:Licensing).
> All primary producers (photographers) and secondary producers
> (uploaders) of pornographic images in the US must keep records, even
> if the images were uploaded to Commons by using a pseudo-anonymous
> username. For this reason, sexual content transferred from Flickr
> without 2257 information should not be accepted.
>
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