Find photos for Drupal Brand Portal

Please keep in mind, that it is possible to choose some images, if the license fits, but if there are people on the picture, which are important for the picture to work out, then the photographer would need a permission for taking the picture. If the photographer, does not have it and the images are used widely… person on the photo does not like that… person is suing the organisation, who is using the picture … and then we have a regress to the photographer.
So choosing official images is quite complicated, if one will be super save and prevent possible problems.
Just want to address this. when it is kept in mind or some other solution is there, perfect!

We had a problem at our Drupal Asssociation once, with a Screenshot of a website, where the website has a picture as a teaser on it… it was user generated content, but still an expensive layer action in the end… therefore I am a bit sensitive and want to help to prevent common pitfalls :)

@grienauer Hence why there is a Media policy for DrupalCons (https://events.drupal.org/media-policy). We already have that, the lanyards (red/orange = no pictures = filtered out from the album) and you can go to the staff to specifically have pictures removed.

What you are referring to sounds more like a copyright infringement, which is not really applicable for those pictures we are talking about in this issue.

yes, you are right. just wanted to address, that if there are images and a person is not fine to be on it, then there are problems.
And I should have read the doc before, which is beside the text :)

@grienauer raises a good point here and perhaps what we need to do at the very least is ascertain when the https://events.drupal.org/media-policy was established, what events it covers and only select images which were captured at those events. Some of the media selected so far will fall outside this time and certainly not from DrupalCon.

The challenge then comes that we are looking at a very limited range of images. The solution to that is to brief photographers going forwards with what material we are encouraging them to capture for the library.

@pdjohnson Pretty much all DrupalCamps I have attended have something similar (in regards to "I don't want to be on photo's"). It being a form of lanyard, sticker or different colour badge. So I do feel that this would widen the selection quite a bit.

Copyright is a different story though, as the default usually is not the license we use for DrupalCon events (CC BY-SA 3.0).