User talk:GSAPP Adjunct

Cameron Rowland photograph
Hi! Just flagging that I reverted the edit you made to the Cameron Rowland article. I do not know if you are the same editor who has requested deletion of this image and removed it multiple times from the article (GSAPPstudent), so I'll give you the full explanation on why this image has been kept. The original uploader made the photograph at an event open to the public, per the website for the event. US law does not require consent to publish photographs of people made in a public place (defined under the law in this context as a place open to the public, even if it is private property, and even if the place is not usually open to the public), nor does New York state or New York City law, unless that photograph is being used in a strictly commercial way. By agreeing to appear at this public event, Rowland, in the legal sense, did not have a reasonable assumption of privacy, therefore their consent was not required to make the image or to publish it in a non-commercial way. When the original uploader and author added the image to Commons, they legally published the photograph under a free license as their own work. The license is irrevocable, meaning the author cannot unilaterally decide that the photograph should now be kept private. Even if the images disappeared from Commons today, they are legally and irrevocably freely licensed, meaning they will continue to exist beyond Commons and other users/parties would have the right to re-upload an identical or edited version of them back onto the site.

Again, I don't know if you are the original uploader using a different account name, or if professors at GSAPP are getting involved because this has been escalated by the original uploader. But, either way, these photos have been kept multiple times after multiple deletion requests. Unless there is a significant piece of information we're missing here that affects the legal rights of either the photographer or the subject, I would kindly ask you to stop removing the image from the article.

You can read the past deletion discussions about the photographs and, and you can find my explanation to the original uploader here. --19h00s (talk) 21:36, 28 November 2023 (UTC)