Commons:Deletion requests/File:Cameron Rowland in front of audience at Columbia GSAPP (cropped).jpg

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File:Cameron Rowland in front of audience at Columbia GSAPP (cropped).jpg

images taken by the host institution require permissions from the participants, and Columbia did not request permission from Cameron 66.108.48.178 16:50, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

This was as I understand it, an event open to the public, and Rowland had no expectations of privacy. What you state is a non-copyright restriction, and the image is tagged with personality rights so Rowland can prevent reusers from commercially reusing his image. Rowland is notable, and it's good to have a freely-licensed photograph of him. Abzeronow (talk) 16:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

 Keep: Unfortunately I believe Columbia staff/students are stuck in the middle between the law and an artist's practice. Legally, there was no expectation of privacy at this event, and whomever at Columbia is associated with the GSAPPstudent account irrevocably freely licensed the images taken at the public event. But Rowland, in the spirit of artists like Stanley Brouwn and Cady Noland, has purposely refused to allow images of themself to circulate. The only known public image of Rowland other than those hosted on Commons is a photocopy of their driver's license photo. I have a feeling that someone connected to Columbia promised Rowland that photos would not be made at the event, but that was not communicated to the photographer or the attendees (it certainly wasn't included on Columbia's page promoting the event). A photographer made and uploaded the photos, Rowland found out, and they are now asking Columbia to delete the images. But because Columbia does not run Commons, they cannot just take back the choice made by the photographer to make and upload the images.

I really don't pretend to know what the "right" thing to do is here. But as far as I can tell, unless someone can prove that photos were not allowed at the event, these images should not be deleted according to Commons policy. 19h00s (talk) 19:40, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

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Kept: Image is properly labeled with personality rights, there are no copyright issues and Commons cannot dictate policy at Columbia University policy does not dictate Commons policy. --Bastique ^{☎ appelez-moi!} 20:02, 8 October 2024 (UTC)