Commons:Deletion requests/Images with recognisable people

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Images with recognisable people

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children

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adults

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I nominate all pictures with recognizable people that are non famous for deletion because they don't have a model release. It is forbidden to publish an image of a person without its consent. §22 German KunstUrhG: Bildnisse dürfen nur mit Einwilligung des Abgebildeten verbreitet oder öffentlich zur Schau gestellt werden. A similar paragraph exists in Austria.

In the United States those pictures violate state law e.g. Indiana Code 32-36-1-8: A person may not use an aspect of a personality's right of publicity for a commercial purpose during the personality's lifetime or for one hundred (100) years after the date of the personality's death without having obtained previous written consent from a person specified in section 17 of this chapter.

This situation is the reason why picture databases like iStockphoto require a model release [1]. See an example for such a relese here. Let's keep the images where we can get such a release in written form (fax or letter to WMF).

Childrens privacy rights are specially protected in some jurisdictions that's why I list them separately. Epiktet 18:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep until change of policy. A New warrior on a crusade? I'm sure we've gone through this some time before and the result was the personality rights warning tag. By the way - To me it appears rather bizarre to nominate this one: Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png. "Recognizable people that are non famous"? Did you even read the image description? Or did you just comb through the featured images, nominating each one depicting a person? It may be helpful to you to know that the deletion request pages are the wrong place for questions of general policy! --Herbert Ortner 19:57, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I find it quite odd that this one of mine has been listed: Image:Human_shields_greeted_crossing_border_into_Iraq.jpg. This is a journalistic photo of a crowd and an historical event. Strange request if you ask me. —Christiaan 21:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Let's be rasonable. How to find a guy in some Indian market and then ask him, if he agrees that a picture stays at Commons? Or a woman, smoking in Kalahari, or an incidental pedestrian, one among millions of Japanese? I think we don't need an answer. If images of human beings (of this kind) for some reason don't belong here, then we would better not allow them anymore. What about cities? How to make a photo of Picadilly circus, Times square, etc., without people??? If there is a high-res pic, you can always find some face. There are tons of images like, say, Image:Potter-queue.jpg at Commons. Crusader, you'll have a lot of work to do, if the voting is positive. Ziga 21:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Closed, as an inappropriate use of the deletion request page. DR is for discussion of whether images should be kept according to existing policy. It is not suitable as a platform from which to launch a personal campaign to get existing policy changed. The creation of a single-purpose account just to make this deletion request is not an act that will gain much sympathy. Existing guidelines on this are set out at Commons:Photographs of identifiable people, and if you believe that any of these images conflict with those guidelines, please nominate them individually. If your intention is to get policy changed, which it seems to be, please start an open discussion on the Village Pump. --MichaelMaggs 21:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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