The Nudity Police
Over the past several months, I have been sending my 35mm slides to be scanned into digital files both to preserve the images and to be able to put my pictures up for friends and family to see. All the slides were in Kodak Carousels, which means they were shown to any and all who would endure looking at our travels. At first, I sent out a couple of hundred slides to see how the process worked and the quality of the scans, which is excellent. My last batch, the one that finished up all that I have, was over 3,000 images.
Today, I received the following message from the company in California who is doing my scans:
“Thank you for placing an order with …. Unfortunately, we are unable to scan 1, 126 format color slide because it contains some nudity. At …, we aim at providing high quality scanning services but our strict guidelines restricts us from scanning media which contains any sort of nudity in them. Although in some cases nudity is considered art, we have had to draw a rather conservative line to avoid any subjectivity in the decision process. We do list this limitation in our terms and conditions” and they give their website at this point. Finally, “Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions or concerns.”
Well, I have no idea out of the 3,000 images in the order they reference what picture does not meet their standards. However, in the first batch of slides I sent, there was a picture from a nude beach in California that they scanned. Perhaps the fact that the naked folk were rather small in the picture made them miss it. However, in the second batch, there were many pictures from an African village where women of all ages were bare from the waist up. Several pictures. They were all scanned. They certainly contained “any sort of nudity.”
Gosh, I’m really interested what single slide out of the over 6,000 I have sent them caused their email.
Their Policy: “…does not control the Content of Members’ accounts and does not have any obligation to monitor such Content for any purpose. You acknowledge that although … is not required to monitor or remove any Content or other information submitted by You or produced on Your behalf by the Service, … has the absolute right (but not the obligation), in its sole discretion to refuse, return, delete, remove, and edit Content for any reason at any time without notice.
“You agree not to use or attempt to use the Service to have the following types of Content produced on Your behalf (“Prohibited Content”):
a. Content that is threatening, profane, abusive, deceptive, pornographic, obscene, defamatory, slanderous, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.
b. Content that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable law.
c. Content that could infringe rights of privacy, publicity or copyright without the express permission of the owner of these rights.
d. Content that advocates illegal activity.
e. Content that harms minors in any way.
“The above list of Prohibited Content is merely an example and is not intended to be complete or exclusive.”
Today, I received the following message from the company in California who is doing my scans:
“Thank you for placing an order with …. Unfortunately, we are unable to scan 1, 126 format color slide because it contains some nudity. At …, we aim at providing high quality scanning services but our strict guidelines restricts us from scanning media which contains any sort of nudity in them. Although in some cases nudity is considered art, we have had to draw a rather conservative line to avoid any subjectivity in the decision process. We do list this limitation in our terms and conditions” and they give their website at this point. Finally, “Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions or concerns.”
Well, I have no idea out of the 3,000 images in the order they reference what picture does not meet their standards. However, in the first batch of slides I sent, there was a picture from a nude beach in California that they scanned. Perhaps the fact that the naked folk were rather small in the picture made them miss it. However, in the second batch, there were many pictures from an African village where women of all ages were bare from the waist up. Several pictures. They were all scanned. They certainly contained “any sort of nudity.”
Gosh, I’m really interested what single slide out of the over 6,000 I have sent them caused their email.
Their Policy: “…does not control the Content of Members’ accounts and does not have any obligation to monitor such Content for any purpose. You acknowledge that although … is not required to monitor or remove any Content or other information submitted by You or produced on Your behalf by the Service, … has the absolute right (but not the obligation), in its sole discretion to refuse, return, delete, remove, and edit Content for any reason at any time without notice.
“You agree not to use or attempt to use the Service to have the following types of Content produced on Your behalf (“Prohibited Content”):
a. Content that is threatening, profane, abusive, deceptive, pornographic, obscene, defamatory, slanderous, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.
b. Content that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable law.
c. Content that could infringe rights of privacy, publicity or copyright without the express permission of the owner of these rights.
d. Content that advocates illegal activity.
e. Content that harms minors in any way.
“The above list of Prohibited Content is merely an example and is not intended to be complete or exclusive.”
posted by Bud Hirsch at 5:00 PM
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