[Eg-oversight-board] Proposed conference photography policy

[Rogan Hamby]

I don't disagree that it's beyond possibility but I don't think its worth
expending effort for every possibility either.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's not beyond the realm of possibility that somebody could both want
> to be active in the profession (part of which often entails giving
> presentations) and have very good reasons for not wanting their
> photograph taken.  Or even very bad reasons; the reason isn't really
> our business.
>
> While I would agree that the default speaker's agreement should
> include the right for the conference to take photographs, make audio
> and video recordings of their presentation, and distribute their
> slides, I think it's reasonable for the program committee to have
> leeway to make exceptions.
>
> If a speaker doesn't want to be photographed at all, while the
> conference obviously couldn't make a guarantee that images taken by
> the audience won't end up on social media, it's certainly in its power
> to do things like add notes to the program requesting that a
> particular presentation not be photographed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Increasingly when I speak at conferences outside the Evergreen ones I
> have
> > to sign over the right to be photographed.  It is increasingly the norm
> and
> > if it limits some small selection of speakers I'm willing to accept that.
> > We can't make everyone happy.  I'm perplexed why anyone would object in
> fact
> > since they're putting themselves in a public space by presenting.  I can
> > understand not wanting the presentation itself shared, especially if
> they're
> > a big speaker who does a lot of paid speaking however.  The events
> > themselves increasingly use social media though and I think it's also
> just
> > an acknowledgment of reality.  I know pictures of speakers were posted on
> > twitter and other social media without asking the permission of
> individual
> > speakers this last year and it will happen in the future as well.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> As I recall correctly, this year there was a speaker that made it clear
> >> they did not want to be photographed, and I assumed this included not
> being
> >> video taped. I see why you would want to require that those that are
> going
> >> to be speakers agree to being photographed (or at least their projected
> >> slides), but I wanted to just bring up that it could make some not want
> to
> >> give presentations.
> >>
> >> On a related note, concerning the policy stating that we will not record
> >> the audio of those that do not wish to be recorded. I recorded the
> >> conference's Git tutorial, and I happened to just place my camera
> facing the
> >> projector screen. I know for a fact that at times I was able to record
> the
> >> audio of some of the people that asked questions during the session. So
> at
> >> next years conference, if I did something similar, I would not be able
> to
> >> see the color of the lanyard of the person asking a questions. What
> should I
> >> do about the audio recording of questions? Should we add an exception
> for
> >> audio recordings of Q/A?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Yamil
> >>
> >>
> >> On May 7, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Chauncey Montgomery <montgoc1 at oplin.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> A secondary minor tangent - I think all speakers should agree to be
> >> >> photographed so that folks can post to social media and the like.  I
> would
> >> >> leave recording audio and video up to the individual speaker though
> and
> >> >> require arrangement.
> >> > I agree.
> >> > CM
> >>
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