[UbuntuWomen] Work Play Day - Discussion and Review of Announcement and Photo Model Release Waiver

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Amber Graner <akgraner at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> However, before we can tell the world about it, we need to look at the
>> announcement and the photo/model release waiver and see if the team,
>> Canonical, or the CC may have noticed something we may have unintentionally,
>> especially when it comes to using photos of minors.  Please take a look at
>> the proposed competition announcement [3] as well as the Sample photo/model
>> release form  and please take a moment to let us know your thoughts.
>
> Could you explain what the purpose of the "release form" is? It's
> rather difficult to evaluate it without understanding what problems it
> is trying to solve, and at the moment I can't see it.

AFAIK the problem here is the use of photos of minors in promotional
material/contests/etc has limitations in some countries, permission
from parents is required.

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