Re: [-empyre-] Re: crowds and copyright

[geniwate <geniwate@ozemail.com.au>]

> John Klima replied:
> 
>> 
>> abandon all privacy ye who enter here.....
> 
Adrian said:
> 
> so presumably you could webcast anything public?

another story - I don't think its entirely apocryphal since I had it from
the australian copyright council. A parent can sue on behalf of their child,
if images of their child appears on the web. The rules are different than
print, and it's not clear whether the child's pose needs to be in any way
sexually suggestive (let alone explicit!).

A parent got serious damages from the entirely 'innocent' use of the pic of
their child online.

the difference in standards is derived from the moral panic about online
paedophilia.

Where I used to work, we were extremely circumspect about images of
children, regardless of their content and context. apparently paedophiles
can do appalling things to extremely innocent images....

geni