On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:19:24PM +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 17:09 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > Basically, to use minors we would need the release forms signed by > > their > > parents/legal guardians. > > > > I think the best case would be when a contributor send photos made by > > himself with his own children and he has a good understanding of the > > rules. Anything less may lead to problems. > > I wasn't even going through the legal stuff, I thought basically on > ethics. We've had some seminars about advertising, and usually > "children" was always a topic under ethics. > > I am not sure how that is going in the US, but the European Parliament > is preparing some legislation to protect children in both ways, as the > target of advertisement and the usage of children in advertising. > > This is a grey area in Europe at the moment, but I would expect some > major changes within the next years. > > For me is a matter of ethics above all else. At least I wouldn't expose > my children or anyone else's children online. And as you mention, the > legal issues (though my idea was mainly based on ethics, but this is > also a handicap). We won't be using photos of minors, period. That issue is closed. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
