We came back from TTR and we know the general common sense rule of photo sharing.... 1. If they are not of you don't post them. 2. If you do post them, you had better have their permission. 3. If the are of you, with others, still get permission... it's only right. But the question I have is there is the undeniable fact that you will get the following 1. complete stranger that walks into the picture 2. you were way to drunk to notice the hoards of other naked people right behind your naked wife your trying to photograph. 3. that you didn't use the zoom on the boob cruise all the time and managed to get multiple others in the picture also. So the question being asked then is, if you have your photo gallery locked into a friends only status, is it ok to post those pictures containing others or should you only post picture of yourself and crop out the others you do not have permission(meaning you didn't find out, not that they said no!) to post of?
Speaking as a lawyer and as a university professor whose research sometimes involves other people and questions like this: If you don't have express permission, you should either not post the image at all OR crop the others out so that they are in no way identifiable. This is especially true if the photograph has any nudity or anything else that could potentially harm or embarrass another person (according to societal standards, not your personal standards -- so just a photo of someone at TTR with a drink in hand or in a very small bikini or thong might be problematic). Trust me... This stuff comes up in custody battles, job hiring and promotion issues, etc. And given the sexually conservative turn of our society, this is especially true. Are you going to get into legal trouble by posting, especially if the posts are password protected? "Probably" not. But that's a "probably" because once posted it's easy enough for someone else to transmit the photo. Easier to CYA. And it's easy enough to crop a photo, even if you only have the photo-viewer that comes standard on any laptop.
+1 In addition you should also blur or block out any identifying items on people in the background that you can't completely crop out, such as: faces, tattoos, jewelry(rings), unique clothing identification, etc
Just a note: I personally would love it if we were in a bunch of pictures and highlighted as "the totally awesome chill funny sexy gay dudes we met and partied with at TTR" Just sayin' :daveandmo:
