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

[Amber Graner]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I can see that this would be what the first and sixth paragraphs of
> the document are addressing, but not the second to fifth paragraphs
> inclusive. Is there another problem that has caused the insertion of
> these provisions?
>


We have never done this before so there no problem that has caused the
inclusion of provisions.  We are trying to avoid any problems by making sure
we are addressing this properly.  Are there changes we should make and if so
where? We are asking for the reasons Lyz mentioned above.
Amber

>
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